Overcome by their example. Pothos stretched out his hand, and the four friends repeated with one voice the words spoken by D'Artagnan, "All for one, one for all." "Good!" said D'Artagnan. "Now, let everyone return to his home, and remember, that from now on, the cardinal is our most biter enemy!"
"Why," replied Dantes, "I see nothing but broken lines and unconnected words, which are rendered illegible by fire." "Yes, to you, my friend, who read them for the first time; but not for me," said the abbe, "I was the secretary and intimate friend of Cardinal Spada when he was alone in the world. He was not rich, although the wealth of his family had passed into a proverb, 'As rich as a Spada.'