"You and Aramis both need to understand that I wasn't just a petty thief," Porthos says heavily, though there's no pride in it. Both of them seem so ready to dismiss what he'd done as light trinkets stolen or a few coins here and there. He didn't earn his reputation as the best thief in the Court with small bits.

He'd taken enough to potentially ruin lives, to hurt people and families, and often had taken from France itself to better his own life. He will always feel shame and regret it, but he'd done it. "I'm glad you don't hate me for it, but don't act as if I was honourable back then, Athos," he warns. "Not if you want to think me not a liar, as well."