"At Belle-Isle. Aramis explained them to the architect."
"Ah! very good. Let us return to the glass, my friend."
"Then, this good M. Voliere—"
"Moliere."
"Yes—Moliere—you are right. You will see now, my dear friend, that I shall recollect his name too well. This excellent M. Moliere set to work tracing out lines on the mirror with a piece of Spanish chalk, following in all the make of my arms and my shoulders, all the while expounding this maxim, which I thought admirable: 'It is necessary that a dress do not incommode its wearer.'"
"In reality," said D'Artagnan, "that is an excellent maxim, which is, unfortunately, seldom carried out in practice."
"That is why I found it all the more astonishing when he expatiated upon it."
"Ah! he expatiated?"
"Parbleu!"
"Let me hear his theory."