...
"You are in no doubt on that score."
"That is true."
TWENTY YEARS AFTER
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
CHAPTER 7
7. Touches upon the Strange Effects a Half-pistole may have upon a Beadle ...
unsuspected.
He perceived in the tavern a pert boy between twelve and fifteen years of age
whom he fancied he had seen not twenty minutes before under the guise of a
choris...
... any one has wanted to
employ me; so you see in what a situation I am."
TWENTY YEARS AFTER
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
CHAPTER 3
3. Dead Animosities.
D'Artagnan arrived at the Bastile just ... The next day came and passed, the day after, a week; I then wrote to
the cardinal. The same day they came for me and took me to the Bastile. That
was five years ago. Do you believe it...
... not pledge
myself."
"To them or to us, do you mean, Aramis?"
TWENTY YEARS AFTER
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
CHAPTER 9
9. The Abbe D'Herblay.
At the extremity of the village Planchet ... come alone to
attack you, instead of at the head of twenty men?"
"Undoubtedly," said Aramis, "and even at the head of his twenty men, if I could
have drawn...
... TWENTY YEARS AFTER
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
CHAPTER 14
14. The Castle of Bragelonne.
Whilst this scene was going on, ... recalled the
good old days, "that we could form an association of men who would be, after
twenty years of separation, still so closely bound together. Friendship throws
out deep roots in ... de la Fere, was made a knight of the Order of St. Michael;
bes...
... exclaim:
"To the devil with your Grimaud! He will spoil the feast."
TWENTY YEARS AFTER
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
CHAPTER 19
19. In which the Contents of the Pates made by the Successor of ...
hidden in the mysterious pate. And what friends awaited him without? He had
friends, then, after five years in prison? If that were so he was indeed a highly
favored prince. He for...
... don't know how you could become acquainted with all these details."
TWENTY YEARS AFTER
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
CHAPTER 20
20. One of Marie Michon's Adventures.
Whilst these projects ...
his boots, similar in color to the hat and gloves, confined feet small as those of a
boy twelve years old.
acquaintances in the highest rank; she called the grandest ladies of the c...
... time."
"He owed me for the councillor, the pettifogger!"
TWENTY YEARS AFTER
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
CHAPTER 27
27. The four old Friends prepare to meet again.
"Well," said ... rich! Ah! my friend! 'tis not civil war that disunites us. It is
that we are each of us twenty years older; it is that the honest emotions of youth
have given place to sugg...
... raise the struggling horse. At last Raoul succeeded in drawing his foot from
TWENTY YEARS AFTER
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
CHAPTER 30
30. Skirmishing.
The halt at Noyon was but brief, every one there
... the parlor, demanding the honor of
presenting a letter to your majesty."
TWENTY YEARS AFTER
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
CHAPTER 36
36. A Letter from Charles the First.
The reader must now cross ... he loves me, my mother.
"Alas! my nephew is not yet king, and you know Laporte has told us twenty
times that he himself is in need of almost everything."
"Then let us...
... by saying that he
placed his feeble influence at her majesty's command.
TWENTY YEARS AFTER
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
CHAPTER 45
45. The Beggar of St. Eustache.
D'Artagnan had calculated ... his."
"The rascal is rich, then?"
"Some of those men sometimes die worth twenty thousand and twenty- five and
thirty thousand francs and sometimes more."
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