"Here is a prisoner for you," said Porthos coolly to Aramis.
"Well!" cried the latter, laughing, "have you not calumniated your legs?"
"It was not with my legs I took him," said Porthos, "it was with my arms!"
CHAPTER CXX.
THE SON OF BISCARRAT.
The Bretons of the isle were very proud of this victory; Aramis did not encourage them in the feeling.
"What will happen," said he to Porthos, when everybody was gone home, "will be that the anger of the king will be roused by the account of the resistance; and that these brave people will be decimated or shot when they are taken, which cannot fail to take place."
"From which it results, then," said Porthos, "that what we have done is of no use."
"For the moment it may be of some," replied the bishop, "for we have a prisoner from whom we shall learn what out enemies are preparing to do."