...
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 turned ... and that's all. No, I spoke of the
Duchess de Chevreuse; did you see her after her return from Brussels, after the
king's death?"
"Yes, she is still beautiful....
... 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 as ... 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 w...
... TWENTY YEARS AFTER
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
CHAPTER 14
14. The Castle of Bragelonne.
Whilst this scene was going on, D'Artagnan ... de la Fere, was made a knight of the Order of St. Michael;
besides which, the king, fifteen years afterward, gave him also this ewer and a
sword which you may have seen formerly in my house, ... recalled the
good old days, "that we could form...
...
"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 Father Marteau ...
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....
... devil in
person I 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. ... 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 court her...
... 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," ... 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 suggestions of inter...
... 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 ... therefore represent six fighting men; if we should meet a little troop of enemies,
equal or even superior in number to our own, shall we charge them, Raoul?"
"Certainly,
... 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 the ...
The young girl is lovely and her tears only embellish her; the lady appears to be
about forty years of age, the girl about fourteen.
"Oh, God!" prayed the kneeling suppliant...
... 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 that ... the square, and the moment the
coadjutor and the curate put their feet on the first church step the mendicant
arose and proffered his brush.
He was a man between sixty-six and sixty-ei...
... in your name throughout this
business?"
"Command, sir."
TWENTY YEARS AFTER
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
CHAPTER 52
52. The Carriage of Monsieur le Coadjuteur.
Instead of returning, ... seconds later the carriages of the ladies-in-
waiting drove out and the gates were shut after them.
A few minutes after twelve o'clock Bernouin knocked at the queen's bedroom...