Sometimes when the cardinal, always on horseback, like the lowest GENDARME of the army, cast a pensive glance over those works, so slowly keeping pace with his wishes, which the engineers, brought from all the corners of France, were executing under his orders, if he met a Musketeer of the company of Treville, he drew near and looked at him in a peculiar manner, and not recognizing in him one of our four companions, he turned his penetrating look and profound thoughts in another direction.
A veces, cuando el cardenal, siempre cabalgando como el último gendarme del ejército, paseaba su mirada pensativa sobre las obras, tan lentas a gusto de su deseo, que alzaban por orden suya los ingenieros que había hecho venir de todos los rincones de Francia, encontraba algún mosquetero de la compañía de Tréville, se acercaba a él, lo miraba de forma singular y al no reconocerlo por uno de nuestros compañeros, dejaba it hacia otra parte su mirada profunda y su vasto pensamiento.