"Treville's company."

"Is there any officer belonging to this company in the
ante-chamber?"

"Lieutenant d'Artagnan."

"A man on whom we can depend, I hope."

"Yes, my lord."

"Give me a uniform of one of these musketeers and help me to
put it on."

The valet went out as silently as he had entered and
appeared in a few minutes bringing the dress demanded.

The cardinal, in deep thought and in silence, began to take
off the robes of state he had assumed in order to be present
at the sitting of parliament, and to attire himself in the
military coat, which he wore with a certain degree of easy
grace, owing to his former campaigns in Italy. When he was
completely dressed he said:

"Send hither Monsieur d'Artagnan."

The valet went out of the room, this time by the centre
door, but still as silently as before; one might have
fancied him an apparition.