Tony

Role: servant · First appears: Chapter 39

Life events

Aramis aims Tony’s musket at Milady’s son, but Athos prevents the shot.(Chapter43 · 📍 Boulogne)
- With: Aramis Athos Mordaunt
- “‘Then wait,’ said Aramis; and with the terrible coolness which on important occasions he showed, he took one of the muskets from Tony, shouldered and aimed it at the young man, who stood, like the accusing angel, upon the rock. ‘Fire!’ cried Grimaud, unconsciously. Athos threw himself on the muzzle of the gun and arrested the shot which was about to be fired.”

employer: Lord de Winter “I set out three days ago, passing miraculously through the Puritan army, and I took post horses with my servant Tony;”

employer: Lord de Winter (Tony is identified as waiting for a call from his master in the surrounding passage.) “But De Winter did not call; crushed, enfeebled, he remained standing and with listening ear; then only when he had heard the step of the horse going away he fell back on a chair, saying:”

with Lord de Winter (Tony accompanies Lord de Winter.) “I have Tony, a safe if simple youth.”

employer: Athos “No,” said Athos. “I see them about twenty paces behind my lord. I recognize Grimaud by his long legs and his determined slouch. Tony carries our muskets.”
employer: Aramis “No,” said Athos. “I see them about twenty paces behind my lord. I recognize Grimaud by his long legs and his determined slouch. Tony carries our muskets.”

employer: Lord Winter “‘Tony, is your master sleeping?’ said one of the two cavaliers to a servant who was lying in the outer compartment, which served as a kind of ante-room.”

Extracted from the original text of Twenty Years After. Made with Rho MD.