To e in the capacity of a cousin, and at himlf every day at a good table; to smooth the yellow, wrinkled brow of the old procurator; to plubsp;the clerks a little by teag them BASSETTE, PASSE-DIX, and LA, in their utmost y, and winning from them, by way of fee for the lesson he would give them in an hour, their savings of a month--all this was enormously delightful to Porthos.
The Musketeer could not fet the evil reports whibsp;then prevailed, and whibsp;indeed have survived them, of the procurators of the period--meanness, stinginess, fasts; but as, after all, excepting some few absp;of ey whibsp;Porthos had always found very unasonable, the procurator''s wife had been tolerably liberal--that is, be it uood, for a procurator''s wife--he hoped to e a houhold of a highly fortable kind.
And yet, at the very door the Musketeer began to eain some doubts. The approabsp;was not subsp;as to preposss people--an ill-smelling, dark passage, a stairbsp;half-lighted by bars through whibsp;stole a glimmer from a neighb yard; on the first floor a low door studded with enormous nails, like the principal gate of the Grand Chatelet.
To e in the capacity of a cousin, and at himlf every day at a good table; to smooth the yellow, wrinkled brow of the old procurator; to plubsp;the clerks a little by teag them BASSETTE, PASSE-DIX, and LA, in their utmost y, and winning from them, by way of fee for the lesson he would give them in an hour, their savings of a month--all this was enormously delightful to Porthos.
The Musketeer could not fet the evil reports whibsp;then prevailed, and whibsp;indeed have survived them, of the procurators of the period--meanness, stinginess, fasts; but as, after all, excepting some few absp;of ey whibsp;Porthos had always found very unasonable, the procurator''s wife had been tolerably liberal--that is, be it uood, for a procurator''s wife--he hoped to e a houhold of a highly fortable kind.
And yet, at the very door the Musketeer began to eain some doubts. The approabsp;was not subsp;as to preposss people--an ill-smelling, dark passage, a stairbsp;half-lighted by bars through whibsp;stole a glimmer from a neighb yard; on the first floor a low door studded with enormous nails, like the principal gate of the Grand Chatelet.