“If you break this door you will find me dead on the threshold."And be easy, madame, you shall be revenged," said Bussy.”

“Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.”

“Upon my word,' said Dantes, 'you make me tremble. If I listen much longer to you, I shall believe the world is filled with tigers and crocodiles.''Remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than those that walk on four.”

“Monsieur Man-in-a-hurry, you can find me without running—ME, you understand?”

“What the deuce does the fellow mean by getting trap-doors made without first consulting you? Trap-doors!”

“D'Artagnan looked his friend earnestly in the face. "You know one thing," continued the comte, leaning upon the arm of the captain; "you know that in the course of my life I have been afraid of but few things. Well! I have an incessant gnawing, insurmountable fear that an hour will come in which I shall hold the dead body of that boy in my arms.”

“Forward! Still forward!" said he. "When it shall be time, God will tell me, as he has told the others.”