88 The Last Canto of the Poem

On the morrow, all the nobility of the provinces, of the environs, and wherever messengers had carried the news, were seen to arrive. D’Artagnan had shut himself up, without being willing to speak to anybody. Two such heavy deaths falling upon the captain, so...

85 The Vision of Athos

When this fainting of Athos had ceased, the Comte, almost ashamed of having given way before this super-natural event, dressed himself and ordered his horse, determined to ride to Blois, to open more certain correspondence with either Africa, d’Artagnan, or Aramis. In fact, this...

66 Friendly Advice

Fouquet was gone to bed, like a man who clings to life, and who economises as much as possible, that slender tissue of existence, of which the shocks and angles of this world so quickly wear out the irreparable tenuity. D’Artagnan appeared at the...

59 The Silver Dish

The journey passed off pretty well. Athos and his son traversed France at the rate of fifteen leagues per day; sometimes more, sometimes less, according to the intensity of Raoul’s grief. It took them a fortnight to reach Toulon, and they lost all traces...

58 The Inventory of M. De Beaufort

To have talked of d’Artagnan with Planchet, to have seen Planchet quit Paris to bury himself in his country retreat, had been for Athos and his son like a last farewell to the noise of the capital—to their life of former days. What, in...

57 Planchet’S Inventory

Athos, during the visit made to the Luxembourg by Raoul, had gone to Planchet’s residence to inquire after d’Artagnan. The gentleman, on arriving at the Rue des Lombards, found the shop of the grocer in great confusion; but it was not the encumberment of...

55 Monsieur De Beaufort

The Prince turned round at the moment when Raoul, in order to leave him alone with Athos, was shutting the door, and preparing to go with the other officers into an adjoining apartment. “Is that the young man I have heard M. le Prince*...

51 The King’S Gratitude

The two men were on the point of darting towards each other when they suddenly and abruptly stopped, as a mutual recognition took place, and each uttered a cry of horror. “Have you come to assassinate me, monsieur?” said the King, when he recognised Fouquet....

28 M. De Baisemeaux’S ‘Society’

The reader has not forgotten that, on quitting the Bastille, d’Artagnan and the Comte de la Fère had left Aramis in close confabulation with Baisemeaux. When once these two guests had departed, Baisemeaux did not in the least perceive that the conversation suffered by...

19 King and Nobility

The King endeavoured to recover his self-possession as quickly as possible, in order to meet M. de la Fère with an undisturbed countenance. He clearly saw it was not mere chance that had induced the Comte’s visit. He had some vague impression of its...