"Thank you," said the cardinal, biting his lips with anger. "Athos, then, went to pay a visit to one of his friends absent at the time," continued Treville, "to a young Bearnais, a cadet in his Majesty’s Guards, the company of Monsieur Dessessart, but scarcely had he arrived at his friend’s and taken up a book, while waiting his return, when a mixed crowd of bailiffs and soldiers came and laid siege to the house, broke open several doors--"
El señor Athos había ido a hacer una visita a uno de sus amigos entonces ausente prosiguió el señor de Tréville . A un joven bearnés, cadete en los guardias de Su Majestad en la compañía de Des Essarts; pero apenas acababa de instalarse en casa de su amigo y de coger un libro para esperarlo, cuando una nube de corchetes y de soldados, todos juntos, sitiaron la casa, hundieron varias puertas...