"He is a coward, indeed," grumbled the host, drawing near to d’Artagnan, and endeavoring by this little flattery to make up matters with the young man, as the heron of the fable did with the snail he had despised the evening before.
En efecto, es muy cobarde murmuró el hostelero aproximándose a D'Artagnan, y tratando mediante esta adulación de reconciliarse con el obre muchacho, como la garza de la fábula con su limaco nocturno.