The three musketeers

A short time ago, while making researches in the Royal Library for my History of Louis XIV., I...

For our young man had a steed which was the observed of all observers. It was a Barn pony, from...

Indeed, sir, continued the stranger, more calm than ever; well, that is perfectly right. and...

His interlocutor, whose head appeared through the carriage window, was a woman of from twenty to...

I tell you I am sure of it, continued the host. When I informed him that your lordship was the...

M. de Trville employed this powerful weapon for the king, in the first place, and the friends of...

We have no need, therefore, to say that DArtagnan dared not join in the conversation, only he...

When the two Musketeers had entered; when the door was closed behind them; when the buzzing murmur...

The door had remained open, so strong was the excitement produced by the arrival of Athos, whose...

All at once the captain stopped, as if struck by a sudden suspicion. This great hatred which the...

My faith. replied DArtagnan, recognizing Athos, who, after the dressing performed by the doctor,...

Ah, ah. cried one of the Guards, will you persist in saying, most discreet Aramis, that you are not...

Prudence, monsieur, is a virtue sufficiently useless to Musketeers, I know, but indispensable to...

Doubtless. Are you not aware that we are never seen one without the others, and that we are called...

Cahusac immediately ran to the Guardsman whom Aramis had killed, seized his rapier, and returned...

Then, upon seeing my Musketeers they changed their minds, and forgot their private hatred for...

This cry was generally heeded; for the Musketeers were known to be enemies of the cardinal, and...

M. de Trville entertained good company, wholly anticardinalist, though. It may easily be...

However ill the king might sleep, M. de Trville slept still worse. He had ordered his three...

This is all very well, murmured the king, yes, this is just the account the duke gave me of the...

Mousqueton was a Norman, whose pacific name of Boniface his master had changed into the infinitely...

This time Aramis was not angry, but assumed the most modest air and replied in a friendly tone, My...

On their side, the three Musketeers were much attached to their young comrade. The friendship which...

From this phrase, DArtagnan awakened Planchet, the reader must not suppose it was night, or that...

I am comfortably off, monsieur, thats all; I have scraped together some such things as an income of...

Which would not prevent me, said DArtagnan, if I knew where the Duke of Buckingham was, from taking...

Besides, nobody came thither but the three Musketeers; they had all been engaged in earnest search...

Oh, yes, monsieur, oh, yes; and I hope to prove to you that you have not served an ingrate. But...

Pardon me, monsieur, said DArtagnan, who had profited by the moment he had been left alone to put...

Let our readers reassure themselves. If DArtagnan forgets his host, or appears to forget him, under...

At the same instant the woman inside drew a second handkerchief from her pocket, and exchanged it...

Monsieur. said the young woman, supplicating him and clasping her hands together, monsieur, in the...

Besides, the woman wore that black mantle which DArtagnan could still see outlined on the shutter...

George Villiers placed himself before the glass, as we have said, restored the undulations to his...

Because you do not love me, madame. If you loved me, you would view all this otherwise. If you...

At the end of half an hour or thereabouts, a clerk came to put an end to his tortures, but not to...

All at once he heard his bolts drawn, and made a terrified bound. He believed they were come to...

Standing before the chimney was a man of middle height, of a haughty, proud mien; with piercing...

We were present at the scene in which the two captives were confronted with each other. Athos, who...

Indeed, sire, I did not. The house may be suspected; but I deny that it is so in the part of it...

And I I tell you against both. I tell you the queen does not love me; I tell you she loves another;...

The queen was still standing when he entered; but scarcely had she perceived him then she reseated...

The cardinal took the letter, and read it with the greatest attention; then, when he had arrived at...

But, cried Anne of Austria, tired of these vague attacks, but, sire, you do not tell me all that...

She found M. Bonacieux alone; the poor man was recovering with difficulty the order in his house,...

I say you are a miserable creature. continued Mme. Bonacieux, who saw she was regaining some little...

Mme. Bonacieux looked at the young man, restrained for a minute by a last hesitation; but there was...

DArtagnan saluted M. de Trville, who held out his hand to him; DArtagnan pressed it with a respect...

Bravo, DArtagnan, your opinion is mine, cried Athos, Besides, we must be consistent; I am going to...

The host had the appearance of as honest a man as any on earth. He received the travelers with his...

This being properly done, they drew the Comte de Wardes close to his servant; and as night was...

The horses went like the wind, and in a few minutes they were at the gates of London. DArtagnan...

Oh, you may even see her if you like, my dear Mr. OReilly. Your captivity shall be mild, be...

The next day about nine oclock in the morning, he landed at St. Valery. DArtagnan went instantly in...

His Majesty, in full dress, was accompanied by his royal Highness, M. le Comte de Soissons, by the...

And I am the more grateful to your Eminence, replied Anne of Austria, with a smile that proved she...

There are many thanks to be offered to you, and to be transmitted to you. Be this evening about ten...

Now, said Trville, lowering his voice, and looking into every corner of the apartment to see if...

Planchet was armed with his musketoon and a pistol. DArtagnan had his sword and placed two pistols...

The tree was easy to climb. Besides, DArtagnan was but twenty years old, and consequently had not...

DArtagnan related his story simply, with the omission of names. He told how he had a rendezvous...

No one can reproach you for anything of the kind, Monsieur Bonacieux, said the young man; you are a...

Pardieu. In the opposite direction to that which you said I was gone. Besides, are you not as...

We thought so, too, monsieur. As our house is carried on very regularly, and we make out our bills...

It is that as I was cruelly bored, as you say, and as I had the seventy five pistoles in my pocket...

As DArtagnan was tolerably reassured with regard to Porthos, and as he was anxious to obtain news...

Aramis, in a black gown, his head enveloped in a sort of round flat cap, not much unlike a calotte,...

How will you prove, continued the Jesuit, without allowing him time to speak, that we ought to...

Ah, said he, dissembling his emotion under a feigned carelessness, do not talk of such things, and...

How was he going to find Athos. Should he find him at all. The position in which he had left him...

DArtagnan had often meditated against the perfidious host one of those hearty vengeances which...

But this is tyranny. cried one of them, in very good French, though with a foreign accent, that...

Well, one day when she was hunting with her husband, continued Athos, in a low voice, and speaking...

I won back your harness, then your horse, then my harness, then my horse, and then I lost again. In...

Since then, continued Aramis, I have lived very agreeably. I have begun a poem in verses of one...

We have still fifteen days before us, said he to his friends, well, if at the end of a fortnight I...

When the lady of the red cushion came close to Porthos, Porthos drew his dripping hand from the...

I. not at all. said DArtagnan. I am only curious to unravel the mystery to which she is attached. I...

The conversation took place in English a language which DArtagnan could not understand; but by the...

Lord de Winter, on quitting DArtagnan, gave him his sisters address. She lived in the Place Royale...

DArtagnan came again on the morrow, and was still better received than on the evening before. Lord...

The old man, wrapped in a large black doublet, in which the whole of his slender body was...

The time for wine came. M. Coquenard poured from a very small stone bottle the third of a glass for...

The remembrance of the scene at St. Germain presented itself to the mind of the presumptuous...

This note was in the first place a forgery; it was likewise an indelicacy. It was even, according...

My Friend, it is the will of fate that we should be still for some time separated; but the...

In a short time the two unfortunate beasts, who had not eaten anything since the morning, made such...

Presently they heard Milady retire to her room. DArtagnan slipped into the wardrobe. Hardly was he...

She was sent by her mistress to the false De Wardes. Her mistress was mad with love, intoxicated...

Alas. said DArtagnan, with the most sentimental air he could assume, can you be cruel enough to put...

He was absorbed entirely by the sensations of the moment. Milady was no longer for him that woman...

DArtagnan was so completely bewildered that without taking any heed of what might become of Kitty...

My dear little love. In my country the ladies do without chambermaids. But stop. I can manage your...

Planchet and Grimaud appeared in their turn, leading their masters steeds. DArtagnan and Athos put...

Fortunately, added he, my good friends are down yonder, and they will not allow me to be carried...

Yes, thats true; but alone as you are, you have done much already, and will do still more, I dont...

The whole of the next day was spent in preparations for departure. DArtagnan went to take leave of...

La Rochelle, which had derived a new importance from the ruin of the other Calvinist cities, was,...

In exchange for all this, he had acquired the protection and good will of the queen; but the favor...

Monsieur is about to ask for some men of good will for a dangerous mission, but one which will do...

You see, then, said DArtagnan, that I must have that letter. So no more delay, no more hesitation;...

M. DARTAGNAN, MM. Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, after having had an entertainment at my house and...

MM. Bassompierre and Schomberg were marshals of France, and claimed their right of commanding the...

On their part the Musketeers, who had not much to do with the siege, were not under very strict...

There was an instant of profound silence between the two interlocutors. It was evident that the...

Your Eminence is right, replied Milady; and I have been wrong in seeing in the mission with which...

Yes, hell has resuscitated you, continued Athos. Hell has made you rich, hell has given you another...

Pardieu, gentlemen, said he. I hope what you have to tell me is worth the trouble, or else, I warn...

There is no desert where a bird cannot pass over ones head, where a fish cannot leap out of the...

The duke is English; the duke fights against us. Let her do what she likes with the duke; I care no...

Grimaud made a sign in the affirmative, and pointed to a dozen bodies which he had set up in the...

Gentlemen, said Aramis, the principal question is not to know which of our four lackeys is the most...

MY DEAR COUSIN, His Eminence, the cardinal, whom God preserve for the happiness of France and the...

MY COUSIN, My sister and I are skillful in interpreting dreams, and even entertain great fear of...

It was one of those rare and beautiful days in winter when England remembers that there is a sun....

Milady reseated herself, foaming. The officer leaned forward, looked at her in his turn, and...

This supposition appeared to her most reasonable. It seemed to her that they wanted to revenge the...

Lord de Winter continued. The officer who commands here in my absence you have already seen, and...

And yet he reckoned, and with reason, on Milady. He had divined in the past of this woman terrible...

Athos allowed the cardinal to finish his sentence completely, and bowed in sign of assent. Then he...

We shall find her still in the despairing attitude in which we left her, plunged in an abyss of...

You are right, said Felton, after having looked at Milady from the spot on which he stood without...

In fact, as this last reflection indicated this instinctive return to hope sentiments of weakness...

Those two words, your Mass, and a simple glance cast upon Felton, revealed to her all the...

This verse, into which the terrible enchantress threw her whole soul, completed the trouble which...

Oh, my God, my God. cried Milady; when I supplicate thee to pour upon this man the chastisement...

A terrible idea, however, rushed into her mind. She thought that Lord de Winter would perhaps send...

This time Felton, immovable as he was, or appeared to be, could not resist the secret influence...

Milady waited, then, with much impatience, for she feared the day would pass away without her...

Time, however, passed away; the hours, one after another, seemed to awaken the clock as they...

Meantime, night came on rapidly, and with night my terrors increased. I did not know but I had...

Half an hour had not passed when the same symptoms began to appear; but as I had only drunk half a...

Then, continued Milady, then I collected all my strength; I recalled to my mind that the moment of...

Then in spite of my cries, in spite of my resistance for I began to comprehend that there was a...

You told me to open the door if I heard anyone cry out, said the soldier; but you forgot to leave...

Au revoir, then; that is all I have to say today. Tomorrow I will see you again, to take my leave....

His whole body appeared in its ordinary state of calmness, only an unusual fire beamed from his...

Meanwhile, Lord de Winter, the deputies, the leaders of the expedition, the officers of Buckinghams...

Be punished alone, for the first, miserable man. said Lord de Winter to Felton, who was being...

At length the escort passed through Paris on the twenty third, in the night. The king thanked M. de...

The abbess, who was the daughter of a noble house, took particular delight in stories of the court,...

She therefore took leave of the abbess, and went to bed, softly rocked by the ideas of vengeance...

Do you not perceive that I know all your abduction from the little house at St. Germain, his...

Well. The carriage is at the door; you bid me adieu; you mount the step to embrace me a last time;...

The noise became louder; the horses could not be more than a hundred and fifty paces distant. If...

Now, gentlemen, said Athos, when he had ascertained there were five chambers free in the htel, let...

All the rest of the furniture indicated that the dweller in this house occupied himself with the...

Several times Lord de Winter, Porthos, or Aramis tried to talk with the man in the red cloak; but...

The day after my return to Lille, my brother in his turn succeeded in making his escape; I was...

Milady, during the passage had contrived to untie the cord which fastened her feet. On coming near...