Twenty Years After

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Dumas Alexandre. Twenty Years After

1. The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu

2. A Nightly Patrol

3. Dead Animosities

4. Anne of Austria at the Age of Forty-six

5. The Gascon and the Italian

6. D’Artagnan in his Fortieth Year

7. Touches upon the Strange Effects a Half-pistole may have

8. D’Artagnan, Going to a Distance to discover Aramis

9. The Abbe D’Herblay

10. Monsieur Porthos du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds

11. Wealth does not necessarily produce Happiness

12. Porthos was Discontented with his Condition

13. Two Angelic Faces

14. The Castle of Bragelonne

15. Athos as a Diplomatist

16. The Duc de Beaufort

17. Duc de Beaufort amused his Leisure Hours in the Donjon of Vincennes

18. Grimaud begins his Functions

19. Pates made by the Successor of Father Marteau are described

20. One of Marie Michon’s Adventures

21. The Abbe Scarron

22. Saint Denis

23. One of the Forty Methods of Escape of the Duc de Beaufort

24. The timely Arrival of D’Artagnan in Paris

25. An Adventure on the High Road

26. The Rencontre

27. The four old Friends prepare to meet again

28. The Place Royale

29. The Ferry across the Oise

30. Skirmishing

31. The Monk

32. The Absolution

33. Grimaud Speaks

34. On the Eve of Battle

35. A Dinner in the Old Style

36. A Letter from Charles the First

37. Cromwell’s Letter

38. Henrietta Maria and Mazarin

39. How, sometimes, the Unhappy mistake Chance for Providence

40. Uncle and Nephew

41. Paternal Affection

42. Another Queen in Want of Help

43. In which it is proved that first Impulses are oftentimes the best

44. Te Deum for the Victory of Lens

45. The Beggar of St. Eustache

46. The Tower of St. Jacques de la Boucherie

47. The Riot

48. The Riot becomes a Revolution

49. Misfortune refreshes the Memory

50. The Interview

51. The Flight

52. The Carriage of Monsieur le Coadjuteur

53. How D’Artagnan and Porthos earned by selling Straw

54. In which we hear Tidings of Aramis

55. The Scotchman

56. The Avenger

57. Oliver Cromwell

58. Jesus Seigneur

59. Noble Natures never lose Courage, nor good Stomachs their Appetites

60. Respect to Fallen Majesty

61. D’Artagnan hits on a Plan

62. London

63. The Trial

64. Whitehall

65. The Workmen

66. Remember!

67. The Man in the Mask

68. Cromwell’s House

69. Conversational

70. The Skiff “Lightning.”

71. Port Wine

72. End of the Port Wine Mystery

73. Fatality

74. How Mousqueton had a Narrow Escape of being eaten

75. The Return

76. The Ambassadors

77. The three Lieutenants of the Generalissimo

78. The Battle of Charenton

79. The Road to Picardy

80. The Gratitude of Anne of Austria

81. Cardinal Mazarin as King

82. Precautions

83. Strength and Sagacity

84. Strength and Sagacity-Continued

85. The Oubliettes of Cardinal Mazarin

86. Conferences

87. Thinking that Porthos will be at last a Baron, and D’Artagnan a Captain

88. Shows how with Threat and Pen more is effected than by the Sword

89. Difficult for Kings to return to the Capitals of their Kingdoms

90. Conclusion

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In ten minutes Mazarin and his party were traversing the street “Les Bons Enfants” behind the theatre built by Richelieu expressly for the play of “Mirame,” and in which Mazarin, who was an amateur of music, but not of literature, had introduced into France the first opera that was ever acted in that country.

The appearance of the town denoted the greatest agitation. Numberless groups paraded the streets and, whatever D’Artagnan might think of it, it was obvious that the citizens had for the night laid aside their usual forbearance, in order to assume a warlike aspect. From time to time noises came in the direction of the public markets. The report of firearms was heard near the Rue Saint Denis and occasionally church bells began to ring indiscriminately and at the caprice of the populace. D’Artagnan, meantime, pursued his way with the indifference of a man upon whom such acts of folly made no impression. When he approached a group in the middle of the street he urged his horse upon it without a word of warning; and the members of the group, whether rebels or not, as if they knew with what sort of a man they had to deal, at once gave place to the patrol. The cardinal envied that composure, which he attributed to the habit of meeting danger; but none the less he conceived for the officer under whose orders he had for the moment placed himself, that consideration which even prudence pays to careless courage. On approaching an outpost near the Barriere des Sergens, the sentinel cried out, “Who’s there?” and D’Artagnan answered-having first asked the word of the cardinal-“Louis and Rocroy.” After which he inquired if Lieutenant Comminges were not the commanding officer at the outpost. The soldier replied by pointing out to him an officer who was conversing, on foot, his hand upon the neck of a horse on which the individual to whom he was talking sat. Here was the officer D’Artagnan was seeking.

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“I am very desirous of being so, my lord, but I am totally in the dark about everything. In the Bastile one talks politics only with soldiers and jailers, and you have not an idea, my lord, how little is known of what is going on by people of that sort; I am of Monsieur de Bassompierre’s party. Is he still one of the seventeen peers of France?”

“He is dead, sir; a great loss. His devotion to the queen was boundless; men of loyalty are scarce.”

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