But when the time came to pay for his rosemary, this oil, and the wine, the only expense the master had incurred, as he had preserved a strict abstinence--while on the contrary, the yellow horse, by the account of the hostler at least, had eaten three times as much as a horse of his size could reasonably supposed to have done--d’Artagnan found nothing in his pocket but his little old velvet purse with the eleven crowns it contained; for as to the letter addressed to M. de Treville, it had disappeared.
Pero en el momento de pagar aquel romero, aquel aceite y aquel vino, único gasto del amo que había guardado dieta absoluta mientras que, por el contrario, el caballo amarillo, al decir del hostelero al menos, había comido tres veces más de lo que razonablemente se hubiera podido suponer por su talla, D'Artagnan no encontró en su bolso más que su pequeña bolsa de terciopelo raído así como los once escudos que contenía; en cuanto a la carta dirigida al señor de Tréville, había desaparecido.