by Alexandre Dumas

“ Don't you understand, Porthos? At the bottom of that staircase lies, probably, the cardinal's treasury of which folk tell such wonders, and we should only have to descend, empty a chest, shut the cardinal up in it, double lock it, go away, carrying off as much gold as we could, put back this orange-tree over the place, and no one in the world would ever ask us where our fortune came from - not even the cardinal. ”

“ At first, on arriving at the door through which Mazarin had passed, D'Artagnan tried in vain to open it, but on the powerful shoulder of Porthos being applied to one of the panels, which gave way, D'Artagnan introduced the point of his sword between the bolt and the staple of the lock. The bolt gave way and the door opened.
"As I told you, everything can be attained, Porthos women and doors, by proceeding with gentleness."
"You're a great moralist, and that's the fact," said Porthos. ”

“ I am a great captain - that I am! but I make war in my own way."
The two friends were crouching down, meantime, behind a tub in the side alley.
Mazarin came within three steps of D'Artagnan and pushed a spring in the wall; the slab turned and the orange tree resumed its place.
Then the cardinal put out the waxlight, slipped it into his pocket, and taking up the lantern: "Now," he said, "for Monsieur de la Fere."
"Very good," thought D'Artagnan, "'tis our road likewise; we will go together."
All three set off on their walk, Mazarin taking the middle alley and the friends the side ones. ”