"Make your complaints known; that's my advice."

"Listen, Rochefort; let us make a compact. We are friends,
are we not?"

"Egad! I bear the traces of our friendship -- three slits or
slashes from your sword."

"Well, if you should be restored to favor, don't forget me."

"On the honor of a Rochefort; but you must do the like for
me."

"There's my hand, -- I promise."

"Therefore, whenever you find any opportunity of saying
something in my behalf ---- "

"I shall say it, and you?"

"I shall do the same."

"Apropos, are we to speak of your friends also, Athos,
Porthos, and Aramis? or have you forgotten them?"

"Almost."

"What has become of them?"

"I don't know; we separated, as you know. They are alive,