flowers, carpets, and window-panes that fell down were really wonderful."

"Indeed!"

"Without reckoning that on the other side of the partition was a small
table laden with porcelain - "

"Which you knocked over?"

"Which I dashed to the other side of the room," said Porthos,
laughing.

"Upon my word, it is, as you say, astonishing," replied D'Artagnan,
beginning to laugh also; whereupon Porthos laughed louder than ever.

"I broke," said Porthos, in a voice half-choked from his increasing
mirth, "more than three thousand francs worth of china - ha, ha, ha!"

"Good!" said D'Artagnan.

"I smashed more than four thousand francs worth of glass! - ho, ho, ho!"

"Excellent."

"Without counting a luster, which fell on my head and was broken into a
thousand pieces - ha, ha, ha!"

"Upon your head?" said D'Artagnan, holding his sides.

"On top."