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The Three Musketeers

By Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, prepared as a public-domain Orakel edition with 68 chapter-aware companion links.

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Chapter I.: THE THREE PRESENTS OF D’ARTAGNAN THE ELDER

Chapter I.: THE THREE PRESENTS OF D’ARTAGNAN THE ELDER from The Three Musketeers. On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of Romance of the Rose was born, appeared to be in as perfect a state of revolution as if the Huguenots had just made a second La Rochelle of it. Many citizens, seeing the women flying toward the High Street, leaving their children crying at the open doors, hastened to don the cuirass, and supporting their somewhat

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Chapter II.: THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TRÉVILLE

Chapter II.: THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TRÉVILLE from The Three Musketeers. M. de Troisville, as his family was still called in Gascony, or M. de Tréville, as he has ended by styling himself in Paris, had really commenced life as D’Artagnan now did; that is to say, without a sou in his pocket, but with a fund of audacity, shrewdness, and intelligence which makes the poorest Gascon gentleman often derive more in his hope from the paternal inheritance than the richest Perigordian or Berrichan

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Chapter III.: THE AUDIENCE

Chapter III.: THE AUDIENCE from The Three Musketeers. M. de Tréville was at the moment in rather ill-humor, nevertheless he saluted the young man politely, who bowed to the very ground; and he smiled on receiving D’Artagnan’s response, the Béarnese accent of which recalled to him at the same time his youth and his country—a double remembrance which makes a man smile at all ages; but stepping toward the antechamber and making a sign to D’Artagnan with his hand, as if to

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Chapter IV.: THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF

Chapter IV.: THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF from The Three Musketeers. Chapter IV.: THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF

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Chapter V.: THE KING’S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL’S GUARDS

Chapter V.: THE KING’S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL’S GUARDS from The Three Musketeers. D’Artagnan was acquainted with nobody in Paris. He went therefore to his appointment with Athos without a second, determined to be satisfied with those his adversary should choose. Besides, his intention was formed to make the brave Musketeer all suitable apologies, but without meanness or weakness, fearing that might result from this duel which generally results from an affair of this kind, when a young and

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Chapter VI.: HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII.

Chapter VI.: HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII. from The Three Musketeers. This affair made a great noise. M. de Tréville scolded his Musketeers in public, and congratulated them in private; but as no time was to be lost in gaining the king, M. de Tréville hastened to report himself at the Louvre. It was already too late. The king was closeted with the cardinal, and M. de Tréville was informed that the king was busy and could not receive him at that moment. In the evening M. de Tréville

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Chapter VII.: THE INTERIOR OF THE MUSKETEERS

Chapter VII.: THE INTERIOR OF THE MUSKETEERS from The Three Musketeers. When D’Artagnan was out of the Louvre, and consulted his friends upon the use he had best make of his share of the forty pistoles, Athos advised him to order a good repast at the Pomme-de-Pin, Porthos to engage a lackey, and Aramis to provide himself with a suitable

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Chapter VIII.: CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE

Chapter VIII.: CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE from The Three Musketeers. In the meantime, the forty pistoles of King Louis XIII., like all other things of this world, after having had a beginning had an end, and after this end our four companions began to be somewhat embarrassed. At first, Athos supported the association for a time with his own

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Chapter IX.: D’ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF

Chapter IX.: D’ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF from The Three Musketeers. As Athos and Porthos had foreseen, at the expiration of a half hour, D’Artagnan returned. He had again missed his man, who had disappeared as if by enchantment. D’Artagnan had run, sword in hand, through all the neighboring streets, but had found nobody resembling the man he sought for. Then he came back to the point where, perhaps, he ought to have begun, and that was to knock at the door against which the stranger

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Chapter X.: A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

Chapter X.: A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY from The Three Musketeers. The invention of the mousetrap does not date from our days; as soon as societies, in forming, had invented any kind of police, that police invented

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Chapter XI.: IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS

Chapter XI.: IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS from The Three Musketeers. His visit to M. de Tréville being paid, the pensive D’Artagnan took the longest way

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Chapter XII.: GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM

Chapter XII.: GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM from The Three Musketeers. Mme. Bonacieux and the duke entered the Louvre without difficulty. Mme. Bonacieux was known to belong to the queen; the duke wore the uniform of the Musketeers of M. de Tréville, who, as we have said, were that evening on guard. Besides, Germain was in the interests of the queen; and if anything should happen, Mme. Bonacieux would be accused of having introduced her lover into the Louvre, that was all. She took the

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Chapter XIII.: MONSIEUR BONACIEUX

Chapter XIII.: MONSIEUR BONACIEUX from The Three Musketeers. There was in all this, as may have been observed, one personage concerned, of whom, notwithstanding his precarious position, we have appeared to take but very little notice. This personage was M. Bonacieux, the respectable martyr of the political and amorous intrigues which entangled themselves so nicely together at this gallant and chivalric

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Chapter XIV.: THE MAN OF MEUNG

Chapter XIV.: THE MAN OF MEUNG from The Three Musketeers. The crowd was caused, not by the expectation of a man to be hanged, but by the contemplation of a man who was

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Chapter XV.: MEN OF THE ROBE AND MEN OF THE SWORD

Chapter XV.: MEN OF THE ROBE AND MEN OF THE SWORD from The Three Musketeers. On the day after these events had taken place, Athos not having reappeared, M. de Tréville was informed by D’Artagnan and Porthos of the circumstance. As to Aramis, he had asked for leave of absence for five days, and was gone, it was said, to Rouen on family

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Chapter XVI.: IN WHICH M. SÉGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE

Chapter XVI.: IN WHICH M. SÉGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE from The Three Musketeers. Chapter XVI.: IN WHICH M. SÉGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR

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Chapter XVII.: BONACIEUX AT HOME

Chapter XVII.: BONACIEUX AT HOME from The Three Musketeers. It was the second time the cardinal had mentioned these diamond studs to the king. Louis XIII. was struck with this insistence, and began to fancy that this recommendation concealed some

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Chapter XVIII.: LOVER AND HUSBAND

Chapter XVIII.: LOVER AND HUSBAND from The Three Musketeers. Ah, Madame,” said D’Artagnan, entering by the door which the young woman opened for him, “allow me to tell you that you have a bad sort of a

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Chapter XIX.: PLAN OF CAMPAIGN

Chapter XIX.: PLAN OF CAMPAIGN from The Three Musketeers. D’Artagnan went straight to M. de Tréville’s. He had reflected that in a few minutes the cardinal would be warned by this cursed stranger, who appeared to be his agent, and he judged, with reason, he had not a moment to

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Chapter XX.: THE JOURNEY

Chapter XX.: THE JOURNEY from The Three Musketeers. At two o’clock in the morning, our four adventurers left Paris by the Barrière St. Denis. As long as it was dark they remained silent; in spite of themselves they submitted to the influence of the obscurity, and apprehended ambushes on every

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Chapter XXI.: THE COUNTESS DE WINTER

Chapter XXI.: THE COUNTESS DE WINTER from The Three Musketeers. As they rode along, the duke endeavored to draw from D’Artagnan, not all that had happened, but what D’Artagnan himself knew. By adding all that he heard from the mouth of the young man to his own remembrances, he was enabled to form a pretty exact idea of a position of the seriousness of which, for the rest, the queen’s letter, short but explicit, gave him the clue. But that which astonished him most was that the

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Chapter XXII.: THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON

Chapter XXII.: THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON from The Three Musketeers. On the morrow, nothing was talked of in Paris but the ball which the aldermen of the city were to give to the king and queen, and in which their Majesties were to dance the famous La Merlaison—the favorite ballet of the

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Chapter XXIII.: THE RENDEZVOUS

Chapter XXIII.: THE RENDEZVOUS from The Three Musketeers. D’Artagnan ran home immediately, and although it was three o’clock in the morning and he had some of the worst quarters of Paris to traverse, he met with no misadventure. Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting

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Chapter XXIV.: THE PAVILION

Chapter XXIV.: THE PAVILION from The Three Musketeers. At nine o’clock D’Artagnan was at the Hôtel des Gardes; he found Planchet all ready. The fourth horse had

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Chapter XXV.: PORTHOS

Chapter XXV.: PORTHOS from The Three Musketeers. Instead of returning directly home, D’Artagnan alighted at the door of M. de Tréville, and ran quickly up the stairs. This time he had decided to relate all that had passed. M. de Tréville would doubtless give him good advice as to the whole affair. Besides, as M. de Tréville saw the queen almost daily, he might be able to draw from her Majesty some intelligence of the poor young woman, whom they were doubtless

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Chapter XXVI.: ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS

Chapter XXVI.: ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS from The Three Musketeers. D’Artagnan had said nothing to Porthos of his wound or of his procurator’s wife. Our Béarnais was a prudent lad, however young he might be. Consequently he had appeared to believe all that the vainglorious Musketeer had told him, convinced that no friendship will hold out against a surprised secret. Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose. In his

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Chapter XXVII.: THE WIFE OF ATHOS

Chapter XXVII.: THE WIFE OF ATHOS from The Three Musketeers. We have now to search for Athos,” said D’Artagnan to the vivacious Aramis, when he had informed him of all that had passed since their departure from the capital, and an excellent dinner had made one of them forget his thesis and the other his

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Chapter XXVIII.: THE RETURN

Chapter XXVIII.: THE RETURN from The Three Musketeers. D’Artagnan was astounded by the terrible confidence of Athos; yet many things appeared very obscure to him in this half revelation. In the first place it had been made by a man quite drunk to one who was half drunk; and yet, in spite of the incertainty which the vapor of three or four bottles of Burgundy carries with it to the brain, D’Artagnan, when awaking on the following morning, had all the words of Athos as

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Chapter XXIX.: HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS

Chapter XXIX.: HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS from The Three Musketeers. The most preoccupied of the four friends was certainly D’Artagnan, although he, in his quality of Guardsman, would be much more easily equipped than Messieurs the Musketeers, who were all of high rank; but our Gascon cadet was, as may have been observed, of a provident and almost avaricious character, and with that (explain the contradiction) so vain as almost to rival Porthos. To this preoccupation of his vanity,

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Chapter XXX.: D’ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN

Chapter XXX.: D’ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN from The Three Musketeers. D’Artagnan followed Milady without being perceived by her. He saw her get into her carriage, and heard her order the coachman to drive to St.

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Chapter XXXI.: ENGLISH AND FRENCH

Chapter XXXI.: ENGLISH AND FRENCH from The Three Musketeers. The hour having come, they went with their four lackeys to a spot behind the Luxembourg given up to the feeding of goats. Athos threw a piece of money to the goatkeeper to withdraw. The lackeys were ordered to act as

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Chapter XXXII.: A PROCURATOR’S DINNER

Chapter XXXII.: A PROCURATOR’S DINNER from The Three Musketeers. However brilliant had been the part played by Porthos in the duel, it had not made him forget the dinner of the procurator’s

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Chapter XXXIII.: SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS

Chapter XXXIII.: SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS from The Three Musketeers. Meantime, as we have said, despite the cries of his conscience and the wise counsels of Athos, D’Artagnan became hourly more in love with Milady. Thus he never failed to pay his diurnal court to her; and the self-satisfied Gascon was convinced that sooner or later she could not fail to

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Chapter XXXIV.: IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF

Chapter XXXIV.: IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF from The Three Musketeers. Since the four friends had been each in search of his equipments, there had been no fixed meeting between them. They dined apart from one another, wherever they might happen to be, or rather where they could. Duty likewise on its part took a portion of that precious time which was gliding away so rapidly—only they had agreed to meet once a week, about one o’clock, at the residence of Athos, seeing that he, in

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Chapter XXXV.: A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID

Chapter XXXV.: A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID from The Three Musketeers. The evening so impatiently waited for by Porthos and by D’Artagnan at last

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Chapter XXXVI.: DREAM OF VENGEANCE

Chapter XXXVI.: DREAM OF VENGEANCE from The Three Musketeers. That evening Milady gave orders that when M. d’Artagnan came as usual, he should be immediately admitted; but he did not

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Chapter XXXVII.: MILADY’S SECRET

Chapter XXXVII.: MILADY’S SECRET from The Three Musketeers. D’Artagnan left the hôtel instead of going up at once to Kitty’s chamber, as she endeavored to persuade him to do—and that for two reasons: the first, because by this means he should escape reproaches, recriminations, and prayers; the second, because he was not sorry to have an opportunity of reading his own thoughts and endeavoring, if possible, to fathom those of this

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Chapter XXXVIII.: HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT

Chapter XXXVIII.: HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT from The Three Musketeers. D’Artagnan was so completely bewildered that without taking any heed of what might become of Kitty he ran at full speed across half Paris, and did not stop till he came to Athos’s door. The confusion of his mind, the terror which spurred him on, the cries of some of the patrol who started in pursuit of him, and the hooting of the people who, notwithstanding the early hour, were going to their work, only made him

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Chapter XXXIX.: A VISION

Chapter XXXIX.: A VISION from The Three Musketeers. At four o’clock the four friends were all assembled with Athos. Their anxiety about their outfits had all disappeared, and each countenance only preserved the expression of its own secret disquiet—for behind all present happiness is concealed a fear for the

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Chapter XL.: A TERRIBLE VISION

Chapter XL.: A TERRIBLE VISION from The Three Musketeers. The cardinal leaned his elbow on his manuscript, his cheek upon his hand, and looked intently at the young man for a moment. No one had a more searching eye than the Cardinal de Richelieu, and D’Artagnan felt this glance run through his veins like a

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Chapter XLI.: THE SIEGE OF LA ROCHELLE

Chapter XLI.: THE SIEGE OF LA ROCHELLE from The Three Musketeers. The Siege of La Rochelle was one of the great political events of the reign of Louis XIII., and one of the great military enterprises of the cardinal. It is, then, interesting and even necessary that we should say a few words about it, particularly as many details of this siege are connected in too important a manner with the story we have undertaken to relate to allow us to pass it over in

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Chapter XLII.: THE ANJOU WINE

Chapter XLII.: THE ANJOU WINE from The Three Musketeers. After the most disheartening news of the king’s health, a report of his convalescence began to prevail in the camp; and as he was very anxious to be in person at the siege, it was said that as soon as he could mount a horse he would set

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Chapter XLIII.: THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT

Chapter XLIII.: THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT from The Three Musketeers. Meanwhile the king, who, with more reason than the cardinal, showed his hatred for Buckingham, although scarcely arrived was in such a haste to meet the enemy that he commanded every disposition to be made to drive the English from the Isle of Ré, and afterward to press the siege of La Rochelle; but notwithstanding his earnest wish, he was delayed by the dissensions which broke out between MM. Bassompierre and

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Chapter XLIV.: THE UTILITY OF STOVEPIPES

Chapter XLIV.: THE UTILITY OF STOVEPIPES from The Three Musketeers. It was evident that without suspecting it, and actuated solely by their chivalrous and adventurous character, our three friends had just rendered a service to someone the cardinal honored with his special

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Chapter XLV.: A CONJUGAL SCENE

Chapter XLV.: A CONJUGAL SCENE from The Three Musketeers. As Athos had foreseen, it was not long before the cardinal came down. He opened the door of the room in which the Musketeers were, and found Porthos playing an earnest game of dice with Aramis. He cast a rapid glance around the room, and perceived that one of his men was

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Chapter XLVI.: THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS

Chapter XLVI.: THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS from The Three Musketeers. On arriving at the lodgings of his three friends, D’Artagnan found them assembled in the same chamber. Athos was meditating; Porthos was twisting his mustache; Aramis was saying his prayers in a charming little Book of Hours, bound in blue

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Chapter XLVII.: THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS

Chapter XLVII.: THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS from The Three Musketeers. As Athos had foreseen, the bastion was only occupied by a dozen corpses, French and

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Chapter XLVIII.: A FAMILY AFFAIR

Chapter XLVIII.: A FAMILY AFFAIR from The Three Musketeers. Athos had invented the phrase, family affair. A family affair was not subject to the investigation of the cardinal; a family affair concerned nobody. People might employ themselves in a family affair before all the world. Therefore Athos had invented the phrase, family

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Chapter XLIX.: FATALITY

Chapter XLIX.: FATALITY from The Three Musketeers. Meantime Milady, drunk with passion, roaring on the deck like a lioness that has been embarked, had been tempted to throw herself into the sea that she might regain the coast, for she could not get rid of the thought that she had been insulted by D’Artagnan, threatened by Athos, and that she had quit France without being revenged on them. This idea soon became so insupportable to her that at the risk of whatever

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Chapter L.: CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER

Chapter L.: CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER from The Three Musketeers. During the time which Lord de Winter took to shut the door, close a shutter, and draw a chair near to his sister-in-law’s fauteuil, Milady, anxiously thoughtful, plunged her glance into the depths of possibility, and discovered all the plan, of which she could not even obtain a glance as long as she was ignorant into whose hands she had fallen. She knew her brother-in-law to be a worthy gentleman, a bold hunter, an

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Chapter LI.: OFFICER

Chapter LI.: OFFICER from The Three Musketeers. Meanwhile, the cardinal looked anxiously for news from England; but no news arrived that was not annoying and

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Chapter LII.: CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY

Chapter LII.: CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY from The Three Musketeers. Let us return to Milady, whom a glance thrown upon the coast of France has made us lose sight of for an

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Chapter LIII.: CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY

Chapter LIII.: CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY from The Three Musketeers. Milady dreamed that she at length had D’Artagnan in her power, that she was present at his execution; and it was the sight of his odious blood, flowing beneath the ax of the headsman, which spread that charming smile upon her

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Chapter LIV.: CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY

Chapter LIV.: CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY from The Three Musketeers. Felton had fallen; but there was still another step to be taken. He must be retained, or rather he must be left quite alone; and Milady but obscurely perceived the means which could lead to this

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Chapter LV.: CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY

Chapter LV.: CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY from The Three Musketeers. The next day, when Felton entered Milady’s apartment he found her standing, mounted upon a chair, holding in her hands a cord made by means of torn cambric handkerchiefs, twisted into a kind of rope one with another, and tied at the ends. At the noise Felton made in entering, Milady leaped lightly to the ground, and tried to conceal behind her the improvised cord she held in her

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Chapter LVI.: CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY

Chapter LVI.: CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY from The Three Musketeers. It was not difficult to conquer, as she had hitherto done, men prompt to let themselves be seduced, and whom the gallant education of a court led quickly into her net. Milady was handsome enough not to find much resistance on the part of the flesh, and she was sufficiently skillful to prevail over all the obstacles of the

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Chapter LVII.: MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY

Chapter LVII.: MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY from The Three Musketeers. After a moment of silence employed by Milady in observing the young man who listened to her, Milady continued her

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Chapter LVIII.: ESCAPE

Chapter LVIII.: ESCAPE from The Three Musketeers. As Lord de Winter had thought, Milady’s wound was not dangerous. So soon as she was left alone with the woman whom the baron had summoned to her assistance she opened her

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Chapter LIX.: WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH

Chapter LIX.: WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH from The Three Musketeers. Felton took leave of Milady as a brother about to go for a mere walk takes leave of his sister, kissing her

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Chapter LX.: IN FRANCE

Chapter LX.: IN FRANCE from The Three Musketeers. The first fear of the King of England, Charles I., on learning of the death of the duke, was that such terrible news might discourage the Rochellais; he tried, says Richelieu in his Memoirs, to conceal it from them as long as possible, closing all the ports of his kingdom, and carefully keeping watch that no vessel should sail until the army which Buckingham was getting together had gone, taking upon himself, in

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Chapter LXI.: THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BÉTHUNE

Chapter LXI.: THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BÉTHUNE from The Three Musketeers. Great criminals bear about them a kind of predestination which makes them surmount all obstacles, which makes them escape all dangers, up to the moment which a wearied Providence has marked as the rock of their impious

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Chapter LXII.: TWO VARIETIES OF DEMONS

Chapter LXII.: TWO VARIETIES OF DEMONS from The Three Musketeers. “Dead or desperately wounded, as I left without having been able to hear anything of him. A fanatic has just assassinated

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Chapter LXIII.: THE DROP OF WATER

Chapter LXIII.: THE DROP OF WATER from The Three Musketeers. Rochefort had scarcely departed when Mme. Bonacieux re-entered. She found Milady with a smiling

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Chapter LXIV.: THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK

Chapter LXIV.: THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK from The Three Musketeers. The despair of Athos had given place to a concentrated grief which only rendered more lucid the brilliant mental faculties of that extraordinary

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Chapter LXV.: TRIAL

Chapter LXV.: TRIAL from The Three Musketeers. It was a stormy and dark night; vast clouds covered the heavens, concealing the stars; the moon would not rise till

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Chapter LXVI.: EXECUTION

Chapter LXVI.: EXECUTION from The Three Musketeers. It was near midnight; the moon, lessened by its decline, and reddened by the last traces of the storm, arose behind the little town of Armentières, which showed against its pale light the dark outline of its houses, and the skeleton of its high belfry. In front of them the Lys rolled its waters like a river of molten tin; while on the other side was a black mass of trees, profiled on a stormy sky, invaded by large

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Chapter LXVII.: CONCLUSION

Chapter LXVII.: CONCLUSION from The Three Musketeers. On the sixth of the following month the king, in compliance with the promise he had made the cardinal to return to La Rochelle, left his capital still in amazement at the news which began to spread itself of Buckingham’s

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EPILOGUE: La Rochelle, deprived of the assistance of the English fleet and of the

EPILOGUE: La Rochelle, deprived of the assistance of the English fleet and of the from The Three Musketeers. EPILOGUE: La Rochelle, deprived of the assistance of the English fleet and of

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