Twenty Years After — Chronicle
Ordered by year where the text states one — taken as written, never inferred. This book has no continuous chronology, so nothing is carried forward: events with no stated year are listed at the end, in chapter order. Every event links back to one sentence of the original.
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500 events · 15 carry a year stated nearby in the text · the rest left undated
1633 (4 events)
Chapter 20 · 📍 [[Tours]] · One morning
Marie Michon Kitty Prince de Marsillac
One morning the green book was brought to her by the Prince de Marsillac. There was no time to lose. Happily Marie and a follower of hers named Kitty could disguise themselves admirably in men’s clothes. The prince procured for Marie Michon the dress of a cavalier and for Kitty that of a lackey; he sent them two excellent horses, and the fugitives went out hastily from Tours
Chapter 20 · A week before
A week before he had received, in a cradle, a beautiful little boy three months old, with a purse filled with gold and a note containing these simple words: ‘11 October, 1633.’
1643 (3 events)
Chapter 20 · 📍 [[France]] · in 1643
Marie Michon, when she returned to France in 1643, immediately sought for information about that child
Chapter 20 · 📍 Raoul
I have made over to him the estate of Bragelonne, my inheritance, which will give him ten thousand francs a year and the title of vicomte.
1648 (8 events)
Chapter 6 · 📍 [[Blois]]
Athos was the first to leave him, in order that he might retire to a little property he had inherited near Blois;
Chapter 6 · 📍 [[Rue Tiquetonne]] · after the connection had continued three years
“So you refuse my request?” “To be sure I do—furiously!”
Chapter 6 · After he had remained through the heat of the day
But D’Artagnan was not a man to let himself be killed like that. After he had remained through the heat of the day unconscious on the battle-field, the cool freshness of the night brought him to himself.
Chapter 6 · 📍 [[Rue Tiquetonne]] · this morning
Nevertheless, I promise thee thou shalt be hidden here, though I risk by concealing thee neither more nor less than my lieutenancy, if it was found out that I gave one rebel an asylum.
Chapter 6 · 📍 [[Rue Tiquetonne]] · The next moment
this is your brother, Madeleine; you don’t know him perhaps, but I know him; he has arrived from Amsterdam.
Undated
Chapter 1
It is said that Mazarin, who, though a cardinal, had not taken such vows as to prevent it, was secretly married to Anne of Austria.
Chapter 1 · 📍 [[Parliament House]] · the morning of the day my story begins
Louis XIV Mathieu Molé President Blancmesnil Broussel
After mass the young monarch drove to the Parliament House, where, upon the throne, he hastily confirmed not only such edicts as he had already passed, but issued new ones, each one, according to Cardinal de Retz, more ruinous than the others—a proceeding which drew forth a strong remonstrance from the chief president, Molé—whilst President Blancmesnil and Councillor Broussel raised their voices in indignation against fresh taxes.
Chapter 1 · 📍 [[Palais Royal]]
The cardinal, in deep thought and in silence, began to take off the robes of state he had assumed in order to be present at the sitting of parliament, and to attire himself in the military coat
Chapter 2 · During the whole of this nocturnal ride
there would be no one on his side except the queen
Chapter 2 · 📍 [[Palais Royal]]
Mazarin D’Artagnan De Tréville
De Tréville knows him and esteems him very highly
Chapter 2 · 📍 [[Palais Royal]] · this very evening
Mazarin Guitant Comte de Rochefort Richelieu
The Comte de Rochefort.
Chapter 2 · 📍 [[Bastile]] · A moment afterward
you are to take this dispatch to the Bastile and bring back here the person it concerns.
Chapter 3 · 📍 [[Bastile]]
the queen is of a sensitive nature. Hearing of your refusal to obey her she looked upon it as a declaration of war, and as she considers you a man of superior talent, and consequently dangerous, she desired me to make sure of you; that is the reason of your being shut up in the Bastile.
Chapter 3
Let M. de Rochefort enter,” said Mazarin, eagerly, on hearing their names pronounced; “and beg M. d’Artagnan to wait; I shall have further need of him.
Chapter 3 · 📍 [[Vincennes]]
Mazarin Rochefort Duc de Beaufort
You, my dear Monsieur de Rochefort, shall have the post of confidence; you shall go to Vincennes, where Monsieur de Beaufort is confined; you will guard him well for me. Well, what is the matter?” “The matter is that you have proposed to me what is impossible,” said Rochefort, shaking his head with an air of disappointment. “What! impossible? And why is it impossible?” “Because Monsieur de Beaufort is one of my friends, or rather, I am one of his. Have you forgotten, my lord, that it is he who answered for me to the queen?” “Since then Monsieur de Beaufort has become an enemy of the State.” “That may be, my lord; but since I am neither king nor queen nor minister, he is not my enemy and I cannot accept your offer.”
Chapter 4
I swear,” she said, “by these sacred relics that Buckingham was not my lover.
Chapter 4
In one the queen asked for the ornaments back again. This letter had been conveyed by D’Artagnan and had arrived in time.
Chapter 4
Anne of Austria Buckingham Laporte
The other was that which Laporte had placed in the hands of the Duke of Buckingham, warning him that he was about to be assassinated; that communication had arrived too late.
Chapter 4
Anne of Austria D’Artagnan Mazarin
Give it back to him, sir, and since you have such a man in your service, make him useful.
Chapter 5
Yes, the queen! And as a proof of what I say she commanded me to show you this diamond, which she thinks you know.
Chapter 5
The Count de la Fère, formerly styled Athos; Monsieur du Vallon, whom we used to call Porthos; the Chevalier d’Herblay, now the Abbé d’Herblay, whom we styled Aramis——
Chapter 7 · 📍 [[Noisy]] · Five minutes afterward
Five minutes afterward Bazin set off on a full trot
Chapter 8 · 📍 [[Paris]] · about two o’clock
followed by Planchet he quitted Paris by the Barrière de la Villete.
Chapter 8 · 📍 [[Place Royale]] · formerly
Coligny, who, for her sake, had been killed in a duel, in the Place Royale, by the Duc de Guise.
Chapter 8 · 📍 [[Noisy]] · at about half-past eight o’clock
two troops of horsemen, each composed of ten men, sallied forth from each of the lanes which encompassed the house and surrounded D’Artagnan and Planchet.
Chapter 8 · 📍 [[Noisy]]
’tis not the devil, ’tis Aramis; gallop fast, Planchet
Chapter 9 · After that
Cardinal de Richelieu Madame de Chevreuse Kitty
He had even given orders to arrest her and would have cut off her head had she not escaped with her waiting-maid—poor Kitty!
Chapter 9 · 📍 [[France]] · this time
Yes she is come back and is going to commit some fresh folly or another.
Chapter 9 · 📍 [[convent of Jesuits]]
To no one. I am a priest,” resumed Aramis. “What have I to do with politics?
Chapter 9 · 📍 [[convent of Jesuits]] · in a few minutes
Good!” said D’Artagnan, rising and brushing his knees; “now I have thee—thou art a Frondeur and the lover of Madame de Longueville.”
Chapter 10 · 📍 [[Pierrefonds]]
He now called himself Du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds, and resided on his new estate.
Chapter 10 · on awaking
Planchet in resuming his former functions resumed also his former humility
Chapter 10
Mousqueton, as fat as a pig, rolling about with rude health, puffed out with good living
Chapter 11 · 📍 [[Place Royale]]
Duke de Guise Monsieur de Coligny
The Duke de Guise killed Monsieur de Coligny in the Place Royale
Chapter 11 · 📍 [[Bracieux]]
Yes, ’tis given. I shall fight heart and soul for Mazarin; but——
Chapter 12
“Well, my dear Mouston,” he said, “rest satisfied. I will call thee Mouston; and if it makes thee happy I will not ‘tutoyer’ you any longer.”
Chapter 12
“We are going to return to the service, Mouston,” replied Porthos, still trying to restore his mustache to the military curl it had long lost.
Chapter 12 · 📍 [[Hotel de la Chevrette]] · in a week
“That’s agreed,” said Porthos.
Chapter 13
At these words a visible emotion was expressed on the beautiful countenance and calm features of Athos. He rushed toward D’Artagnan with eyes fixed upon him and clasped him in his arms.
Chapter 13
She was walking with her nurse Marceline, in the place where the woodmen cut the wood, when, passing on horseback, I stopped. She saw me also and in trying to jump from the end of a pile of wood on which she had mounted, the poor child fell and was not able to rise again. I fear that she has badly sprained her ankle.
Chapter 13 · 📍 [[Blois]]
The guests now all took leave of Athos, excepting the old Duc de Barbe, who, as an old friend of the family of La Vallière, went to see little Louise and offered to take her to Blois in his carriage.
Chapter 13 · 📍 [[Blois]]
Nevertheless, Raoul, you must go to Blois and you must make your excuses and mine to Madame de Saint-Remy.
Chapter 14 · when I quitted the army
I inherited this little property when I quitted the army, as I told you.
Chapter 14 · 📍 [[Marignan]] · on that occasion
Enguerrand de la Fère Francis I
It was on that occasion that my ancestor, Enguerrand de la Fère, was made a knight of the Order of St. Michael;
Chapter 14 · fifteen years afterward
Enguerrand de la Fère Francis I
the king, fifteen years afterward, gave him also this ewer and a sword
Chapter 15 · 📍 [[Blois]]
her fall is a very serious one, and without any ostensible injury, the physician fears she will be lame for life.
Chapter 15 · 📍 [[Paris]]
And they set out at as hard a canter as their horses could maintain.
Chapter 16 · 📍 [[Vincennes]] · before Whitsuntide
Coysel Mazarin Duc de Beaufort
the Duke of Beaufort will escape before Whitsuntide.
Chapter 16 · 📍 [[Vincennes]]
Meantime, Mazarin redoubled his surveillance over the duke.
Chapter 16 · 📍 [[Vincennes]] · in the morning
Mazarin Bernouin Duc de Beaufort
he summoned Bernouin and desired him to fetch thither in the morning the special guard he had placed over Monsieur de Beaufort
Chapter 17 · 📍 [[Vincennes]] · eventually
Duc de Beaufort Mazarin Guitant
eventually, as he was stupid enough to be vexed at this change of position, the queen had had him arrested and sent to Vincennes in charge of Guitant
Chapter 17 · 📍 [[Vincennes]] · one day
Duc de Beaufort Monsieur de Chavigny
Nevertheless, one day when Monsieur de Beaufort was walking in the meadow his fire was put out, his charcoal all removed, taken away; and thus his means of drawing utterly destroyed.
Chapter 17 · Three days afterward
Pistache
Three days afterward Pistache was found dead—poisoned.
Chapter 17 · 📍 [[Vincennes]]
Duc de Beaufort Mazarin La Ramee
So it was ordered the prisoner was henceforth to eat nothing that had not previously been tasted, and La Ramee was in consequence placed near him as taster.
Chapter 17 · 📍 [[Vincennes]]
Duc de Beaufort Monsieur de Chavigny
He took from the duke all the steel knives and silver forks and replaced them with silver knives and wooden forks
Chapter 17 · 📍 [[Vincennes]]
La Ramee became, therefore, the duke’s dinner guest by compulsion—an eternal keeper, the shadow of his person
Chapter 17 · with delight
He accepted, therefore, with delight, an offer made to him by his friend the steward of the Duc de Grammont, to give him a substitute
Chapter 18 · 📍 [[Vincennes]]
Grimaud Jacques Chrysostom La Ramee
La Ramee, fascinated by this sobriety in speech, rubbed his hands and engaged Grimaud.
Chapter 18 · 📍 [[Vincennes]] · One morning
Grimaud Duc de Beaufort Marie de Montbazon
You may entirely confide in the brave lad who will give you this note; he has consented to enter the service of your keeper and to shut himself up at Vincennes with you, in order to prepare and assist your escape, which we are contriving.
Chapter 18 · 📍 [[Vincennes]] · It is now eleven
Let my lord at two o’clock ask leave to make up a game at tennis with La Ramee and let him send two or three balls over the ramparts.
Chapter 18 · 📍 [[Vincennes]]
True, on my honor as a gentleman it shall be as thou dost suggest.
Chapter 19
The peasant, the gardener, was Rochefort, whom he believed to be in the Bastile.
Chapter 19 · day after to-morrow
Duc de Beaufort Rochefort Noirmont
Your friends are watching over you and the hour of your deliverance is at hand. Ask day after to-morrow to have a pie supplied you by the new confectioner opposite the castle, and who is no other than Noirmont, your former maître d’hôtel.
Chapter 19 · the day after to-morrow
Duc de Beaufort La Ramee Grimaud
That Grimaud shall wait on us at table.
Chapter 19
Monsieur de Chavigny is to be away for a few days and he has sent me word that he has certain directions to give me before his departure.
Chapter 19 · to-morrow evening
All is ready for to-morrow evening. Keep watch from seven to nine. Have two riding horses ready. We shall descend by the first window in the gallery.
Chapter 19
Duc de Beaufort Grimaud Rochefort
The duke took it from under his pillow and gave it to Grimaud.
Chapter 21 · On a day of the carnival
Scarron was heated, the cold seized on him, and when he reached the farther bank he found himself crippled.
Chapter 21 · one day
So he was called the queen’s invalid, with a pension of fifteen hundred francs.
Chapter 21 · 📍 [[pension-office]] · the very morning of which we speak
the government had no more money to give Monsieur Scarron.
Chapter 21
Madame de Chevreuse Athos Raoul
“Monsieur le comte,” said the duchess, giving him a letter, “here is what I promised you; our young friend will be extremely well received.”
Chapter 21 · in the morning
you will start in the morning for the army of monsieur le prince. Sleep well your last night as citizen.
Chapter 22 · 📍 [[Saint Denis]]
“I shall adore God, sir,” said Raoul, “respect royalty and ever serve the king.
Chapter 23 · that morning
Monsieur de Chavigny had started on a journey that morning and in his absence La Ramee was deputy-governor of the château.
Chapter 23 · 📍 [[Vincennes]] · six o’clock
La Ramee sent away the guards, desiring them to drink to the duke’s health
Chapter 23 · 📍 [[Vincennes]] · At a few minutes to seven
Duc de Beaufort Grimaud La Ramee
I raise the crust of the pie; I find in it two poniards, a ladder of rope, and a gag.
Chapter 23 · 📍 [[Vincennes]] · Seven o’clock
Duc de Beaufort Grimaud La Ramee
In a second La Ramee was gagged and laid prostrate.
Chapter 23 · 📍 [[Vincennes]] · Immediately
He had gone down about three-quarters of the length of the wall when the cord broke. Grimaud fell—precipitated into the moat.
Chapter 23 · 📍 [[Vincennes]] · In less than five minutes
In less than five minutes he arrived at the end of the cord.
Chapter 23 · 📍 [[Vincennes]]
And he jumped on his horse and set off at full gallop
Chapter 24 · 📍 [[Blois]]
At Blois, D’Artagnan received the money paid to him by Mazarin for any future service he might render the cardinal.
Chapter 24 · 📍 [[Château de Vincennes]]
Duc de Beaufort Monsieur du Poins
The matter is, my lord, that the Duc de Beaufort has contrived to escape from the Château of Vincennes.
Chapter 24
Mazarin Porthos Duc de Beaufort
Monsieur du Vallon, your barony is on the back of the Duc de Beaufort’s horse; you have nothing to do but to overtake it.
Chapter 24
Mazarin D’Artagnan Duc de Beaufort
As for you, my dear lieutenant, I promise you nothing; but if you bring him back to me, dead or alive, you may ask all you wish.
Chapter 24 · 📍 [[Rue Saint Honoré]]
D’Artagnan Porthos Monsieur du Poins
They descended the great staircase, taking with them all the guards they found on their road, and crying out, “To arms! To arms!” and immediately put spur to horse, which set off along the Rue Saint Honoré with the speed of the whirlwind.
Chapter 25
He unfolded the paper, presented it to the sergeant with one hand and with the other took a pistol from his holsters and cocked it. “Order of the king, I tell you. Read and answer, or I will blow out your brains!” The sergeant saw that D’Artagnan was in earnest. “The Vendomois road,” he replied. “And by what gate did they go out?” “By the Saint Maur gate.”
Chapter 25
D’Artagnan Porthos Mousqueton Monsieur de Montbazon
“But, sir,” answered the steward, “do you know that these horses belong to Monsieur de Montbazon?” “So much the better; they must be good animals, then.” “Sir, I shall call my people.” “And I, mine; I’ve ten guards behind me, don’t you hear them gallop? and I’m one of the king’s musketeers. Come, Porthos; come, Mousqueton.” They all mounted the horses as quickly as possible.
Chapter 25
D’Artagnan Porthos Madame de Montbazon Monsieur de Montbazon Duc de Beaufort
“Egad, didn’t you hear? these horses belong to Monsieur de Montbazon; well, Monsieur de Montbazon is the husband of Madame de Montbazon——” “And——” “And Madame de Montbazon is the mistress of the Duc de Beaufort. “Ah! I understand, replied Porthos; she has ordered relays of horses.”
Chapter 25
Mousqueton, who, abandoning his horse on the high road, had come on foot to rejoin his master
Chapter 26
Athos Aramis D’Artagnan Porthos
“Athos!” exclaimed D’Artagnan. “D’Artagnan!” ejaculated Athos. Athos raised his sword; D’Artagnan lowered his. “Aramis!” cried Athos, “don’t fire!” “Ah! ha! is it you, Aramis?” said Porthos.
Chapter 26
Duc de Beaufort D’Artagnan Porthos
“As you will,” replied the duke. “I am too much indebted to you to refuse your first request. Gentlemen,” he said to his escort, “withdraw. Monsieur d’Artagnan, Monsieur du Vallon, you are free.”
Chapter 26
Athos Aramis D’Artagnan Porthos
“Gentlemen,” he said, “this is a serious business and my heart bleeds as if you had pierced it through and through. Yes, we are severed; there is the great, the distressing truth!”
Chapter 26 · 📍 [[Place Royale]] · To-morrow evening
Athos Aramis D’Artagnan Porthos
“Will the Place Royale suit you?” asked D’Artagnan. “In Paris?” “Yes.” Athos and Aramis looked at each other. “The Place Royale—be it so!” replied Athos. “When?” “To-morrow evening, if you like!” “At what hour?” “At ten in the evening, if that suits you; by that time we shall have returned.”
Chapter 26 · when this letter was brought to him
Mazarin had passed a very bad night when this letter was brought to him, announcing that the duke was free and that he would henceforth raise up mortal strife against him.
Chapter 26 · 📍 [[Cimetière Saint Jean]]
“What consoles me,” said the cardinal after reading the letter, “is that, at least, in this chase, D’Artagnan has done me one good turn—he has destroyed Broussel.”
Chapter 27 · 📍 [[Hotel de la Chevrette]]
putting his hand into a drawer, he took from it a quantity of notes on a bank in Lyons.
Chapter 27 · 📍 [[Hotel de la Chevrette]]
We will give the fifty pistoles to the hostess for our expenses,” said D’Artagnan, “and share the three hundred.”
Chapter 27
Broussel Madame de Longueville Prince de Conti Madame de Chevreuse Madame de Vendôme
He was carried home in the arms of the people. His house has been full ever since. He has received visits from the coadjutor, from Madame de Longueville, and the Prince de Conti; Madame de Chevreuse and Madame de Vendôme have left their names at his door.
Chapter 27 · 📍 [[Hotel de la Chevrette]]
Halloo! Planchet! here! saddle our horses, take your carbine.”
Chapter 27 · 📍 [[Place Royale]] · nine o’clock
D’Artagnan Porthos Athos Aramis
They then advanced two and two, and saluted each other politely.
Chapter 28 · 📍 [[Place Royale]] · that night
the friendship, therefore, that you boast of was not broken yesterday by the shock of swords, but by your dissimulation at your castle.
Chapter 28 · 📍 [[Place Royale]] · that night
Athos Porthos D’Artagnan Aramis
for we four, we once did condemn, judge and slay a human being whom we had not any right to cut off from this world
Chapter 28 · 📍 [[Place Royale]] · that night
Athos D’Artagnan Aramis Porthos
D’Artagnan, I ask your pardon for having yesterday crossed swords with you; Aramis does the same to Porthos
Chapter 28 · 📍 [[Place Royale]] · that night
Athos Porthos D’Artagnan Aramis
swear to be united in spite of everything, and forever, and may this oath bind us to each other, and even, also, our descendants!
Chapter 29 · 📍 [[Oise]]
Raoul Count de Guiche D’Arminges
Raoul sprang from his horse, to which he left the charge of its own preservation, and in three or four strokes was at the gentleman’s side
Chapter 29 · 📍 [[Oise]]
Count de Guiche Maréchal de Grammont
I am called the Count de Guiche,” continued the young man; “my father is the Maréchal de Grammont
Chapter 29 · 📍 [[Oise]]
To join the army, under the prince, count.” “And I, too!” exclaimed the young man
Chapter 30
Count de Guiche Raoul de Bragelonne
Another glance between the young men convinced them both that neither had any wish to go back, and as the tutor had already turned his horse’s head, they both spurred forward, Raoul crying: “Follow me, Olivain!” and the Count de Guiche: “Follow, Urban and Planchet!” And before the tutor could recover from his surprise they had both disappeared into the forest.
Chapter 30
He let off his fire at but four paces. Struck in the breast and extending his arms, the Spaniard fell back on the crupper, and the terrified horse, turning around, carried him off.
Chapter 30
Raoul felt a pain in the left arm, similar to that of a blow from a whip.
Chapter 30
when with one bound Guiche reached the Spaniard and placed a pistol at his throat. “Yield!” he cried, “or you are a dead man!” The musket fell from the soldier’s hands, who yielded on the instant. Guiche summoned one of his grooms, and delivering the prisoner into his charge, with orders to shoot him through the head if he attempted to escape, he leaped from his horse and approached Raoul.
Chapter 31
Raoul Count de Guiche Monsieur d’Arminges
The litter, borne by two servants, now entered the house.
Chapter 31
we are in haste to rejoin the prince’s army we must continue our journey.
Chapter 31
Render to him, then, the last service he can by any possibility ask of you
Chapter 31
The blade of a dagger was buried up to the hilt in the left side of the executioner.
Chapter 32 · before leaving England
“before leaving England she had, it was believed, caused the favorite of the king to be murdered.” “Buckingham?” cried the monk. “Yes, Buckingham.”
Chapter 32
John Francis de Winter the executioner
“No pity for him who had no pity! Die, impenitent, die in despair, die and be damned!” And drawing a poniard from beneath his robe he thrust it into the breast of the wounded man, saying, “Here is my absolution!”
Chapter 32 · 📍 [[Paris]]
threw off his monkish garb, took from his valise the complete habiliment of a cavalier, clothed himself in it, went on foot to the first post, secured there a horse and continued with a loose rein his journey to Paris.
Chapter 33 · 📍 [[Mazingarbe]]
“the lives of five men are not safe, in my opinion, as long as he is on the earth.”
Chapter 33 · 📍 [[Paris]] · Two minutes later
Two minutes later the thunder of a horse’s hoofs was heard upon the road; it was Grimaud, on his way to Paris.
Chapter 34
Raoul Count de Guiche Monsieur d’Arminges
This time it was not a wandering troop of partisans; it was an entire army.
Chapter 34
Raoul Count de Guiche Monsieur d’Arminges
There was therefore nothing for them to do but to follow the prudent advice of Monsieur d’Arminges and beat a retreat.
Chapter 34 · from this moment
“Thank you, viscount,” continued the prince, laughing, “and I appoint you from this moment my interpreter.”
Chapter 34 · 📍 [[Lys]] · to-night
Prince de Condé Le Plessis Bellièvre Villequier D’Erlac
“Recall Le Plessis, Bellièvre, Villequier and D’Erlac,” said the prince, “recall all the troops that are on this side of the Lys. Let them hold themselves in readiness to march to-night. To-morrow, according to all probability, we shall attack the enemy.”
Chapter 34 · 📍 [[Lens]] · immediately after Raoul’s departure
As he had foreseen, Lens had fallen into the hands of the enemy immediately after Raoul’s departure.
Chapter 34 · 📍 [[Lens]] · on the morrow
Prince de Condé Marshal de Grammont Duc de Châtillon
The prince assigned to every one his post. Marshal de Grammont was to hold the extreme left, resting on Mericourt. The Duc de Châtillon commanded the centre. Finally, the prince led the right wing, resting on Aunay. The order of battle on the morrow was to be that of the positions taken in the evening.
Chapter 35 · 📍 [[the Hermitage]] · the following Wednesday, at eight o’clock in the evening precisely
Athos Porthos D’Artagnan Aramis
For different reasons this was an agreeable proposition to them all, and it was therefore agreed that each should leave a very exact address and that upon the request of any of the associates a meeting should be convoked at a famous eating house in the Rue de la Monnaie, of the sign of the Hermitage. The first rendezvous was fixed for the following Wednesday, at eight o’clock in the evening precisely.
Chapter 35 · this morning
Mazarin Athos Porthos D’Artagnan
He knows you better by your actions than your name; he is quite aware that there are two gentlemen who greatly aided the escape of Monsieur de Beaufort, and he has instigated an active search for them, I can answer for it.
Chapter 35 · 📍 [[France]]
Grimaud Milady’s son
That Milady’s son has left England, that he is in France, on his road to Paris, if he be not here already.
Chapter 35 · not thirty hours since
Grimaud Milady’s son
Disguised as a monk he discovered the whole history in confession from the executioner of Bethune, and having confessed him, after having learned everything from him, he gave him absolution by planting this dagger into his heart.
Chapter 35 · 📍 [[the Hermitage]] · very soon
Athos Porthos D’Artagnan Aramis
D’Artagnan, Porthos and Aramis rose and in one spontaneous motion rushed to their swords. Athos alone remained seated, calm and thoughtful. “And you say he is dressed as a monk, Grimaud?” “Yes, as an Augustine monk.” “What sized man is he?” “About my height; thin, pale, with light blue eyes and tawny flaxen hair.” “And he did not see Raoul?” asked Athos. “Yes, on the contrary, they met, and it was the viscount himself who conducted him to the bed of the dying man.” Athos, in his turn, rising without speaking, went and unhooked his sword.
Chapter 36 · 📍 [[Naseby camp]] · now
I have concentrated here at Naseby camp all the resources Heaven has left me, and I write to you in haste from thence.
Chapter 36 · 📍 [[Carmelite Convent]]
Madame Henrietta Madame Henrietta
I have pledged my last jewels, sold your clothes and my own to pay his servants, who refused to accompany him unless I made this sacrifice. We are now reduced to live at the expense of these daughters of Heaven; we are the poor, succored by God.
Chapter 36 · 📍 [[Carmelite Convent]] · eleven o’clock in the morning
Lord de Winter Madame Henrietta
And the queen advanced to meet the messenger, whose hand she seized affectionately, whilst he knelt down and presented a letter to her, contained in a case of gold.
Chapter 36 · 📍 [[Bergen]]
Montrose, beaten at Philiphaugh, was obliged to disperse the remains of his army and to fly, disguised as a servant. He is at Bergen, in Norway.
Chapter 36 · 📍 [[France]]
the king wishes you to try and discover the dispositions of the king and queen toward him.
Chapter 36 · for an instant
Prince of Wales Mademoiselle d’Orléans Duc d’Orléans
The young people felt a mutual esteem; but the queen, who at first sanctioned their affection, changed her mind, and Monsieur, the Duc d’Orléans, who had encouraged the familiarity between them, has forbidden his daughter to think any more about the union.
Chapter 37 · 📍 [[Paris]]
Mordaunt Oliver Cromwell Mazarin
“Mr. Mordaunt, one of my secretaries, will remit this letter of introduction to His Eminence, the Cardinal Mazarin, in Paris.
Chapter 37 · 📍 [[England]]
Oliver Cromwell Mazarin Charles I
That neutrality consists simply in excluding King Charles from the territory of France and in refraining from helping him—a stranger to your country—with arms, with money or with troops.
Chapter 38 · on the eve of a decisive engagement
I must inform you that Charles I., my husband, is on the eve of a decisive engagement.
Chapter 38
Henrietta Maria Mazarin Charles I
if the king persists in remaining in England will you send him succor? If he comes to France will you accord him hospitality?
Chapter 38 · this instant
Mazarin Henrietta Maria Charles I
I will go this instant and consult the queen, and we will refer the affair at once to parliament.
Chapter 38 · 📍 [[palace]]
Henrietta Maria Lord de Winter
she went and took the hand of De Winter, who stood apart in isolation.
Chapter 39
Madame Henrietta Queen Anne of Austria Charles I
the queen will not say yes when the cardinal says no.
Chapter 39
he must sacrifice it generously and die like a king. I shall go and die by his side.
Chapter 39 · 📍 [[Lens]]
Maréchal de Grammont Count de Guiche
we have just gained the battle of Lens, and that this victory cannot fail to give great power to Cardinal Mazarin and to the queen over the affairs of Europe.
Chapter 39 · 📍 [[Lens]]
he gained great glory and had the honor of being embraced by his highness, the prince, on the field of battle.
Chapter 39 · In an hour hence
In an hour hence I shall be with the Comte de la Fère, and to-morrow your majesty shall have a definite reply.
Chapter 39
Madame Henrietta Lord de Winter
Take them, and if you need money for your expedition, sell them fearlessly, my lord.
Chapter 40
Mordaunt Lord de Winter Milady
My lord, what have you done with your sister—your sister, who was my mother?
Chapter 40
Lord de Winter Milady Duke of Buckingham
She caused the unfortunate Duke of Buckingham to be stabbed by a man who was, ere that, honest, good and pure.
Chapter 40 · 📍 [[Bethune]]
On our return to France she had a young woman who was attached to one of her opponents poisoned in the convent of the Augustines at Bethune.
Chapter 40
Mordaunt Lord de Winter Milady
I shall summon you to account for it first and then those who were your accomplices, when I discover them!
Chapter 40
no, I shall not kill you; at least not at this moment, for without you I could not discover the others.
Chapter 40 · 📍 [[Bethune]]
I stabbed to the heart the headsman of Bethune, without mercy or pity, and he was the least guilty of you all.
Chapter 40
With these words the young man went out and descended the stairs with sufficient calmness to pass unobserved
Chapter 41 · 📍 [[Paris]]
Raoul Bragelonne Prince de Condé Duc de Châtillon
when he desired me to return to Paris with Monsieur de Châtillon
Chapter 41 · 📍 [[Pont du Louvre]] · to-morrow morning at ten o’clock
Could you engage to bring him to me to-morrow morning at ten o’clock, on the Pont du Louvre?
Chapter 41 · 📍 [[Blois]] · The next day
I have, however, a wish to go and pass a day at Blois.
Chapter 42 · 📍 [[England]]
Madame Henrietta Athos Aramis Charles I
“Yes, madame; only it seems to me that your majesty goes too far in engaging to load us with a friendship so far above our merit.
Chapter 42 · 📍 [[Louvre]]
Madame Henrietta Athos Aramis Charles I Princess Henrietta
The queen had two letters ready, one written by herself, the other by her daughter, the Princess Henrietta.
Chapter 42
“P.S.—Be it well understood that the fifty louis which I send are equally for Aramis as for you—for you as Aramis.”
Chapter 43 · 📍 [[Boulogne]]
Athos Aramis Lord de Winter Mordaunt Milady
“Yes, it is I, my uncle—I, the son of Milady—I, the monk—I, the secretary and friend of Cromwell—I know you now, both you and your companions.”
Chapter 43 · 📍 [[Boulogne]]
“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.
Chapter 43 · 📍 [[Boulogne]]
Athos Aramis Lord de Winter Mordaunt
“To our next meeting, sirs, in England.”
Chapter 43 · 📍 [[Boulogne]] · to-night
hardly had they put foot on deck ere her head was turned towards Hastings, where they were to disembark.
Chapter 44
a great sword glittered in the air; at the same time the crowd opened, upset, trodden down, and an officer of the musketeers, striking and cutting right and left, rushed up to Raoul and took him in his arms just as he was about to fall.
Chapter 44 · 📍 [[Rue Guénégaud]]
If I take you, you will be hung!” The young man did not wait to be told twice, but passing under the horse’s head disappeared at the corner of the Rue Guénégaud.
Chapter 44 · 📍 [[Hotel de la Chevrette]] · four days ago
“He left four days ago,” said D’Artagnan. “But this letter seems to intimate that he is about to incur danger, perhaps death.” “He—he—incur danger of death! No, be not anxious; he is traveling on business and will return ere long. I hope you have no repugnance to accept me as your guardian in the interim.”
Chapter 44 · 📍 [[Hotel de la Chevrette]]
“Well, sir, I will obey you, although I do not understand you.”
Chapter 45 · 📍 [[prison of Saint Germain]] · at this time
Broussel had been conducted out of Paris without further resistance, and was at this time in the prison of Saint Germain
Chapter 45 · 📍 [[Palais Royal]] · that morning
I have to beg you to reflect twice ere you cause a civil war in the kingdom.
Chapter 45 · in three days
teach your flocks that the queen is a tyrant; and repeat often and loudly, so that all may know it, that the misfortunes of France are caused by Mazarin
Chapter 45 · 📍 [[Rue des Lombards]] · at six o’clock
Very well, sir, find this man, and when you have found him bring him to me.
Chapter 45 · 📍 [[Rue Cassette]] · at eight o’clock
bring him here at eight o’clock, sir, and may Heaven bless you as I bless you!
Chapter 45 · 📍 [[St. Eustache]] · this evening, at ten o’clock
Here is a bag containing five hundred pistoles in gold; make all your arrangements, and tell me where I shall be able to find you this evening at ten o’clock.
Chapter 46 · 📍 [[archbishop’s palace]]
Rochefort Chevalier d’Humières
“You may reckon upon me and upon fifty soldiers which the Chevalier d’Humières has promised me whenever I need them.”
Chapter 46 · 📍 [[archbishop’s palace]] · now
Gondy Rochefort Duc de Beaufort
“Write to him; now’s the time.”
Chapter 46 · 📍 [[tower of St. Jacques de la Boucherie]] · ten o’clock
Gondy mendicant
“For the barricades. When you leave this you will behold my men at work.
Chapter 46 · 📍 [[tower of St. Jacques de la Boucherie]]
Gondy mendicant
“Good! there is your money, the same sum as that you have received already.
Chapter 47 · 📍 [[Paris]] · The next morning
Mazarin Anne of Austria Broussel
Those bearing plumed hats and gold swords were stopped and made to cry, “Long live Broussel!” “Down with Mazarin!”
Chapter 47 · The next morning
Anne of Austria Maréchal de la Meilleraie
As for the queen, furious, and left to her own guidance, she went for the Maréchal de la Meilleraie and desired him to take as many men as he pleased and to go and see what was the meaning of this pleasantry.
Chapter 47 · 📍 [[Pont Neuf]] · The next morning
Maréchal de la Meilleraie Rochefort Louvières Planchet
He beat a retreat toward the market, but there he met Planchet with his halberdiers; their halberds were leveled at him threateningly.
Chapter 47 · 📍 [[Rue Saint Honoré]] · The next morning
Maréchal de la Meilleraie Fontrailles Gondy Broussel
“Morbleu!” cried the latter, “I should say that I do pledge myself to it! I had no hope of getting off so easily.”
Chapter 47 · 📍 [[Rue Saint Honoré]] · The next morning
Maréchal de la Meilleraie Friquet
The crowd gave place, the barricade was opened, and the marshal, with the remnant of his company, retreated, preceded by Friquet and his bandits
Chapter 47 · 📍 [[Palais Royal]] · At this moment
In spite of this recommendation, which, owing to the noise, could scarcely have been heard, two or three musket shots resounded, succeeded by a terrible discharge.
Chapter 47 · 📍 [[Palais Royal]] · an hour hence
Mazarin D’Artagnan Porthos Anne of Austria
“Come, come with me, gentlemen!” exclaimed Mazarin. “I will go and discuss the matter with the queen.”
Chapter 48 · 📍 [[Hotel d’O——]]
Chancellor Sequier Bishop of Meaux
Then disguised in the clothes of the Marquis d’O——, he had left the hotel
Chapter 48 · 📍 [[Pont Neuf]]
Maréchal de la Meilleraie Broussel
“That Broussel shall be given up to them, madame.”
Chapter 48 · 📍 [[Palais Royal]]
“go and find the coadjutor and bring him to me.”
Chapter 48 · 📍 [[Palais Royal]]
“Place a hundred around the king and with the remainder sweep away this mob for me.”
Chapter 48 · 📍 [[Saint Germain]]
The queen had written, “The keeper of the prison at Saint Germain will set Councillor Broussel at liberty;” and she had signed it.
Chapter 49 · 📍 [[Paris]] · The next morning
The next morning, therefore, when Broussel made his entrance into Paris in a large carriage, having his son Louvières at his side and Friquet behind the vehicle, the people threw themselves in his way and cries of “Long live Broussel!” “Long live our father!” resounded from all parts
Chapter 49
By his advice a decree from parliament summoned the citizens to lay down their arms and demolish the barricades.
Chapter 49 · During this interval of calm
D’Artagnan profited by this interval of calm to send away Raoul, whom he had great difficulty in keeping shut up during the riot, and who wished positively to strike a blow for one party or the other.
Chapter 49 · The evening after this conversation
In fact, the evening after this conversation the report was circulated that the Prince de Condé had arrived. It was a very simple, natural circumstance and yet it created a profound sensation.
Chapter 49 · At five o’clock
I want to carry off my son from them, with yourself. I wish that this event, which on the day it is known will completely change the aspect of affairs, should be accomplished without the knowledge of any others but yourself, myself, and a third person.
Chapter 49 · That night
Anne of Austria Prince de Condé
The queen had passed the night in lonely conference with the prince, who had entered the oratory at midnight and did not leave till five o’clock in the morning.
Chapter 49
“I am saved!” she exclaimed, rising; “oh, yes! yes! I know a man who will find the means of taking me from Paris, a man I have too long forgotten.” Then falling into a reverie, she added, however, with an expression of joy, “Ungrateful woman that I am, for twenty years I have forgotten this man, whom I ought to have made a maréchal of France. My mother-in-law expended gold, caresses, dignities on Concini, who ruined her; the king made Vitry maréchal of France for an assassination: while I have left in obscurity, in poverty, the noble D’Artagnan, who saved me!” And running to a table, on which were paper, pens and ink, she hastily began to write.
Chapter 50 · 📍 [[oratory]] · at five o’clock
Return at five o’clock and I will tell you; but do not breathe to a living soul, sir, the rendezvous which I give you.
Chapter 51
Anne of Austria Broussel Blancmesnil
The queen had restored Broussel and Blancmesnil to the people
Chapter 51 · 📍 [[Saint Germain]] · this evening
The queen has resolved to make a little excursion with the king to Saint Germain.
Chapter 51 · 📍 [[Saint Germain]] · this evening
Good; it is you, accordingly, that I have pitched upon to conduct the king and the queen to Saint Germain.
Chapter 51 · 📍 [[Palais Royal]]
there is a diamond which belonged to you formerly, it is but just it should return to you; take it, I pray.
Chapter 51 · 📍 [[Palais Royal]] · at midnight
Very well, be here at midnight.
Chapter 51 · 📍 [[Palais Royal]] · at half-past nine o’clock
He found the cardinal dressed as an officer
Chapter 51 · 📍 [[Cours la Reine]] · Five minutes later
Mazarin D’Artagnan Porthos Mousqueton
Five minutes later the carriage stopped, having reached Cours la Reine.
Chapter 52 · 📍 [[Palais Royal]]
He mounted noiselessly into the chariot and pulled the silk cord which was attached to the coachman’s little finger. “To the Palais Royal,” he called out.
Chapter 52 · 📍 [[Palais Royal]] · A few minutes after twelve o’clock
“Will your majesty permit me to give orders in your name throughout this business?” “Command, sir.”
Chapter 52 · 📍 [[Palais Royal]]
Anne of Austria D’Artagnan Laporte Louis XIV
“Madame,” he replied, “Monsieur d’Artagnan’s prediction has been accomplished; they are calm, as if by enchantment. The doors are about to be opened and in five minutes they will be here.”
Chapter 52 · 📍 [[Cours la Reine]]
D’Artagnan Anne of Austria Louis XIV Duke d’Anjou Laporte Mazarin
The blinds were pulled down and they started at a gallop by the Rue Richelieu. On reaching the gate the captain of the post advanced at the head of a dozen men, holding a lantern in his hand. D’Artagnan signed to them to draw near. “Do you recognize the carriage?” he asked the sergeant. “No,” replied the latter. “Look at the arms.” The sergeant put the lantern near the panel. “They are those of monsieur le coadjuteur,” he said. “Hush; he is enjoying a ride with Madame de Guéménée.” The sergeant began to laugh. “Open the gate,” he cried. “I know who it is!” Then putting his face to the lowered blinds, he said: “I wish you joy, my lord!” “Impudent fellow!” cried D’Artagnan, “you will get me turned off.” The gate groaned on its hinges, and D’Artagnan, seeing the way clear, whipped his horses, who started at a canter, and five minutes later they had rejoined the cardinal.
Chapter 53 · 📍 [[Paris]]
I say that she is a hostage for the Parisians,
Chapter 53 · 📍 [[Saint Germain]] · At five o’clock in the morning
D’Artagnan put the gold in his hat, and in going back to the château settled the reckoning with Porthos, each of them had cleared two hundred and fifteen louis.
Chapter 53 · 📍 [[Boulogne]]
You must set out for Boulogne. At the Royal Arms of England you will find a young gentleman named Mordaunt.
Chapter 53
“But on our return,” he said aloud, “may we, that is, my friend and I, depend on having, he his barony, and I my promotion?” “On the honor of Mazarin.”
Chapter 53 · 📍 [[England]]
That his eminence has ordered you to England and that Monsieur d’Artagnan is waiting for you in the stables.
Chapter 54
Athos Aramis D’Artagnan Porthos
perhaps this may be the last time that you will ever hear from me. Aramis and I are very unhappy;
Chapter 54 · 📍 [[Blois]] · in two months and a half
I intrust to you certain papers which are at Blois; and in two months and a half, if you do not hear of us, take possession of them.
Chapter 54 · 📍 [[Boulogne]]
It was directed to “Monsieur Oliver Cromwell, General of the Army of the English Nation.”
Chapter 54 · eight o’clock
D’Artagnan Porthos Mousqueton Mordaunt
A few minutes later they were on board, but the embarkation of the horses was a longer matter than that of the men, and it was eight o’clock before they raised anchor.
Chapter 55 · 📍 [[Newcastle]]
the town that Charles I. had just surrendered to the parliamentary troops
Chapter 55 · to-night
that, by an infamous treaty you have sold me for two hundred thousand pounds to Parliament.
Chapter 55
We have promised and we will keep our promise. Charles Stuart, you are our prisoner.
Chapter 55 · On their road
Athos Aramis Charles I Lord Winter
Athos and Aramis dragged the king from the perjured assembly into which he had so imprudently ventured, and throwing themselves on horseback all three returned at full gallop to the royal tent.
Chapter 56
Athos knelt down and the king passed the ribbon down from left to right as usual, raised his sword, and instead of pronouncing the customary formula, “I make you a knight. Be brave, faithful and loyal,” he said, “You are brave, faithful and loyal. I knight you, monsieur le comte.” Then turning to Aramis, he said: “It is now your turn, monsieur le chevalier.” The same ceremony recommenced, with the same words
Chapter 56 · At the same moment
At the same moment Mordaunt, for it was he, leveled his pistol at Winter; it went off and the ball entered the heart of the old cavalier, who with one bound on his saddle fell back into the arms of Athos, murmuring: “He is avenged!”
Chapter 56 · Suddenly
D’Artagnan Porthos Athos Aramis
D’Artagnan held the bridle of Athos’s horse and Porthos that of Aramis. Both of them attempted to lead his prisoner off the battle-field.
Chapter 56 · 📍 [[Holdenby Castle]] · on the road
Oliver Cromwell Colonel Tomlison Charles I
but on the road an aide-de-camp, from Cromwell, sent orders that Colonel Tomlison should conduct him to Holdenby Castle.
Chapter 56 · At the same time
At the same time couriers started in every direction over England and Europe to announce that Charles Stuart was the prisoner of Oliver Cromwell.
Chapter 57
On the capture of Charles Stuart. You are now master of England.
Chapter 57
I heard that the colonel of the regiment that escorted Charles was killed,” said Cromwell, staring very fixedly at Mordaunt. “Yes, sir.” “By whom?” inquired Cromwell. “By me.” “What was his name?” “Lord Winter.”
Chapter 57 · this morning
Very well, Mordaunt,” exclaimed Cromwell, pleased at having his opinion of the young man raised once more; “I will give them to you; I will not even ask who they are; do as you like with them.”
Chapter 58 · 📍 [[Newcastle]]
D’Artagnan Porthos Athos Aramis
The house to which D’Artagnan and Porthos conducted Athos and Aramis was the one assigned to them by General Cromwell
Chapter 58 · 📍 [[Newcastle]]
Oliver Cromwell Mordaunt Athos Aramis
your resistance is useless; these prisoners have just been given me by my illustrious patron, Oliver Cromwell.
Chapter 58 · 📍 [[Newcastle]]
D’Artagnan Porthos Athos Aramis
No sooner had he uttered this cry than the door opened and Athos and Aramis rushed out.
Chapter 58 · 📍 [[Newcastle]]
D’Artagnan Porthos Athos Aramis
They passed through the gate like apparitions, without the guards thinking of detaining them, and reached the open country.
Chapter 58
Mordaunt darted to the steps, understood all, uttered a cry, as if his very heart was pierced, and fell fainting on the stone steps.
Chapter 59 · 📍 [[England]]
D’Artagnan Porthos Athos Aramis
“’Tis settled,” replied D’Artagnan. “I find England a charming country, and I stay—but on one condition only.”
Chapter 60
“Then, sir, allow me to assure you that your blow was so well directed that you have nearly killed your man.”
Chapter 60
“No. It was a very near thing, but he is not dead.” As he said this, D’Artagnan gave a glance at Parry, who was standing in front of the king, to show him that the news was meant for him.
Chapter 60
D’Artagnan Athos Aramis Porthos Mousqueton
“My dear friends,” said D’Artagnan, “give your swords to Monsieur Mouston, who will return them to you at the proper time and place, and do not forget you are our prisoners.”
Chapter 61 · 📍 [[Ryston]] · to-night
D’Artagnan Athos Aramis Porthos Charles I
We dress the king in Groslow’s clothes. Mousqueton, Grimaud and Blaisois have our horses saddled at the end of the first street. We mount them and before daylight are twenty leagues distant.
Chapter 61 · 📍 [[Ryston]]
Charles I D’Artagnan Athos Aramis Porthos
The words that Parry had read assured them that their presence was understood by the king and was assigned to its real motive.
Chapter 61 · 📍 [[Ryston]] · It was nine o’clock in the evening
Harrison Charles I Oliver Cromwell Mordaunt
“Charles Stuart,” said he, “an order has come to conduct you to London without stopping day or night. Prepare yourself, then, to start at once.”
Chapter 61 · 📍 [[Ryston]]
Mordaunt D’Artagnan Athos Aramis Porthos
“Colonel, colonel,” cried Mordaunt, “you are betrayed. These four Frenchmen have escaped from Newcastle, and no doubt want to carry off the king. Arrest them.”
Chapter 61 · The next moment
D’Artagnan Athos Aramis Porthos
The next moment he darted to the door and knocked down two of the soldiers who guarded it, before they had time to cock their muskets. Athos and Aramis followed him. Porthos brought up the rear, and before soldiers, officers, or colonel had time to recover their surprise all four were in the street.
Chapter 62 · 📍 [[London]] · at about five o’clock in the morning
Athos replied, in excellent English, that they had been sent forward by Colonel Harrison to announce to his colleague, Monsieur Bridge, the approach of the king.
Chapter 62 · 📍 [[Bedford Tavern]]
Athos Aramis Porthos D’Artagnan Mousqueton
The plan of changing their clothes was unanimously adopted.
Chapter 62 · 📍 [[London]]
Charles I Colonel Harrison Mordaunt
D’Artagnan raised himself on tiptoe, and as the carriage passed, saw Harrison at one window and Mordaunt at the other.
Chapter 62 · 📍 [[London]] · The next day
heard the Act of Parliament, which summoned the ex-king, Charles I., to the bar, publicly cried.
Chapter 62 · 📍 [[London]]
He took them up, just as he formerly used to take up the stones from the road, and threw them out of the house.
Chapter 63 · The next morning
The next morning King Charles I. was haled by a strong guard before the high court which was to judge him.
Chapter 63
Athos Mordaunt D’Artagnan Porthos Aramis
This voice was that of Athos, who, standing up with outstretched hand and quite out of his mind, thus assailed the public accuser.
Chapter 63
Mordaunt D’Artagnan Athos Porthos Aramis
His eyes glittered with delight. He had discovered those to whose death he had devoted his life.
Chapter 63
D’Artagnan Athos Porthos Aramis
But with the rapidity of thought D’Artagnan seized Athos by the waist, and followed by Porthos with Aramis, leaped down from the benches, rushed into the passages, and flying down the staircase were lost in the crowd without
Chapter 64 · 📍 [[Whitehall]] · to-morrow night
D’Artagnan, sire, the same who had so nearly rescued you when Colonel Harrison made his untimely entrance.
Chapter 64 · 📍 [[Whitehall]]
Athos Porthos Aramis D’Artagnan Master Tom Lowe
Athos uttered a cry of joy and admiration, ran to a closet and drew forth workmen’s clothes, which the four friends immediately put on
Chapter 66
The child stretched out his little hand toward that of his father and said, “I swear to your majesty.”
Chapter 66 · 📍 [[Newcastle Keep]] · last of all
Charles I Athos Prince of Wales
A million in gold remains; it is buried in the cellars of Newcastle Keep.
Chapter 66 · At last
At last he rose and taking his handkerchief steeped it in the blood of the martyred king.
Chapter 67
The doctors are embalming the corpse, and when it is ready it will be placed in a lighted chapel.
Chapter 67 · 📍 [[London]]
I, a bloodthirsty ruffian, who can go and stand close to a scaffold, in order to have a better view of the king’s execution—I remain.
Chapter 68 · The next moment
D’Artagnan Grimaud Athos Aramis Porthos Mordaunt
The next moment the door opened and Mordaunt appeared on the threshold, face to face with D’Artagnan. Porthos clapped his hands and the other two came running around. Mordaunt was livid, but he uttered no cry nor called for assistance. D’Artagnan quietly pushed him in again, and by the light of a lamp on the staircase made him ascend the steps backward one by one, keeping his eyes all the time on Mordaunt’s hands, who, however, knowing that it was useless, attempted no resistance. At last they stood face to face in the very room where ten minutes before Mordaunt had been talking to Cromwell. Porthos came up behind, and unhooking the lamp on the staircase relit that in the room. Athos and Aramis entered last and locked the door behind them.
Chapter 69
Aramis opened the paper, and in a voice trembling with hate and vengeance read “D’Artagnan.”
Chapter 69
the wall seemed to give way, Mordaunt disappeared through the opening, and D’Artagnan’s blade, caught between the panels, shivered like a sword of glass.
Chapter 69 · 📍 [[France]]
D’Artagnan Aramis Porthos Athos
So, suiting the action to the word, D’Artagnan thrust the remnant of his sword into its scabbard, picked up his hat and ran down the stairs, followed by the others.
Chapter 70
“I thought, perhaps, that the king’s death—— “Has only hastened their flight; in ten minutes they will perhaps be here.”
Chapter 70
the third, under the prow of the ship, was under the temporary cabin in which Mordaunt was concealed.
Chapter 70 · 📍 [[Greenwich]]
Groslow Athos D’Artagnan Rogers
“But I’m his cousin; he told me everything and desired me to watch instead of him, and in his place to conduct, wherever they wished to go, the gentlemen who should bring me a handkerchief tied at each corner, like that one which you hold and one which I have in my pocket.”
Chapter 70 · 📍 [[France]]
they had proposed his going with them to France, but he had straightway declined.
Chapter 70 · 📍 [[Greenwich]]
D’Artagnan Athos Aramis Porthos
They went on board and the captain instantly conducted them to the berth prepared for them—a cabin which was to serve for all purposes and for the whole party;
Chapter 70 · 📍 [[Greenwich]]
D’Artagnan Athos Aramis Porthos Groslow
As soon as the plank was withdrawn the captain took his place at the tiller and made a sign to one of the sailors, who, boat-hook in hand, began to push out from the labyrinth of boats in which they were involved. The other sailor had already seated himself on the port side and was ready to row. As soon as there was room for rowing, his companion rejoined him and the boat began to move more rapidly.
Chapter 71
Both, however, cast an inquisitive glance into the tankard—it was full of gunpowder.
Chapter 71
Mordaunt knelt down and fastened one end of the train to the spigot, in order that he might have nothing to do but to set it on fire at the opposite end with the match.
Chapter 71
Convinced that the ship was full of powder instead of having a cargo of wine, Grimaud hastened to awake D’Artagnan
Chapter 72
“The felucca is mined,” said D’Artagnan. “Those casks which I took for casks of port wine are filled with powder. When Mordaunt finds himself discovered he will destroy all, friends and foes; and on my word he would be bad company in going either to Heaven or to hell.”
Chapter 72
But D’Artagnan had now slipped through the window. “You have decided, friend?” said Athos. “Yes,” the Gascon answered; “Athos! you, who are a perfect being, bid spirit triumph over body. Do you, Aramis, order the servants. Porthos, kill every one who stands in your way.” And after pressing the hand of Athos, D’Artagnan chose a moment when the ship rolled backward, so that he had only to plunge into the water, which was already up to his waist. Athos followed him before the felucca rose again on the waves;
Chapter 72
“Come along! I shall strangle you both if you don’t get out,” said Porthos at last, seizing Mousqueton by the throat. “Forward, Blaisois!” A groan, stifled by the grasp of Porthos, was all the reply of poor Blaisois, for the giant, taking him neck and heels, plunged him into the water headforemost, pushing him out of the window as if he had been a plank. “Now, Mousqueton,” he said, “I hope you don’t mean to desert your master?” “Ah, sir,” replied Mousqueton, his eyes filling with tears, “why did you re-enter the army? We were all so happy in the Château de Pierrefonds!” And without any other complaint, passive and obedient, either from true devotion to his master or from the example set by Blaisois, Mousqueton leaped into the sea headforemost.
Chapter 72
“Ah! have you your sword, Athos?” cried D’Artagnan. “Yes.” “Cut the cable, then.” Athos drew a sharp poniard from his belt and cut the cord. The felucca went on, the boat continued stationary, rocked only by the swashing waves.
Chapter 73 · The instant Groslow put his foot upon the hatchway steps
The instant Groslow put his foot upon the hatchway steps the ship opened like the crater of a volcano.
Chapter 73 · At this instant
In the bosom of this corpse was plunged a poniard, the gold hilt of which shone in the moonbeams.
Chapter 73 · At this instant
Athos D’Artagnan Aramis Porthos
Eight vigorous arms lifted him up immediately and laid him in the boat, where directly Athos was warmed and reanimated
Chapter 74
Suddenly Mousqueton uttered a cry of delight, taking from beneath one of the benches a bottle of wine; and on looking more closely in the same place he discovered a dozen similar bottles, bread, and a monster junk of salted beef.
Chapter 74 · 📍 [[Dunkirk]] · at nine o’clock in the morning
Athos Aramis D’Artagnan Porthos Mousqueton
A quarter of an hour afterward the rowboat of this craft took them all aboard. Grimaud tendered twenty guineas to the captain, and at nine o’clock in the morning, having a fair wind, our Frenchmen set foot on their native land.
Chapter 74 · 📍 [[the Dunes]] · that morning
Athos Aramis D’Artagnan Porthos
At last they lost sight of each other.
Chapter 74
D’Artagnan Porthos Queen Henrietta Mazarin Cromwell Charles I
Because they have but fulfilled the mission confided to them by Queen Henrietta and we have betrayed that confided to us by Mazarin; because, going hence as emissaries to Cromwell, we became partisans of King Charles; because, instead of helping cut off the royal head condemned by those fellows called Mazarin, Cromwell, Joyce, Bridge, Fairfax, etc., we very nearly succeeded in saving it.
Chapter 75 · 📍 [[Paris]] · the very next day
she not only declined to receive the deputies, but sent an intimation by Chancellor Séguier, implying that if the parliament did not humble itself before her majesty by negativing all the questions that had been the cause of the quarrel, Paris would be besieged the very next day.
Chapter 75 · 📍 [[France]] · that same day
ordered him to retire from the court that same day and from France within a week afterward
Chapter 75 · 📍 [[Paris]] · the tenth of January
the Prince of Conti was named, but not until after a stormy discussion, generalissimo of the army of the king, out of Paris.
Chapter 75 · 📍 [[Hotel of the Great Charlemagne]]
“Then,” said Athos in a tone of delight, “he is well? no accident has happened to him?” “None, sir.” “And he lives?” “Still at the Hotel of the Great Charlemagne.”
Chapter 75 · 📍 [[Paris]]
“Without passports,” said Planchet. “Take notice, captain,” he continued, giving Planchet his expected title, “take notice that one of the three men who just now went out from here told me privately to distrust these gentlemen.” “And I,” said Planchet, with dignity, “I know them and I answer for them.”
Chapter 76 · 📍 [[Louvre]]
Athos Aramis Queen Anne of Austria Charles I
Athos, kneeling down before the queen, trembling and very cold, drew from his bosom, inclosed in the same case, the order set in diamonds which the queen had given to Lord de Winter and the wedding ring which Charles I. before his death had placed in the hands of Aramis. Since the moment he had first received these two mementoes Athos had never parted with them. He opened the case and offered them to the queen with deep and silent anguish. The queen stretched out her hand, seized the ring, pressed it convulsively to her lips—and without being able to breathe a sigh, to give vent to a sob, she extended her arms, became deadly pale, and fell senseless in the arms of her attendants and her daughter.
Chapter 76 · 📍 [[Charenton]] · to-morrow
“Willingly,” replied De Châtillon. “Duke,” said Flamarens, “you forget that to-morrow you are to command an expedition of the greatest importance, projected by the prince, assented to by the queen. Until to-morrow evening you are not at your own disposal.” “Let it be then the day after to-morrow,” said Aramis. “To-morrow, rather,” said De Châtillon, “if you will take the trouble of coming so far as the gates of Charenton.” “How can you doubt it, sir? For the pleasure of a meeting with you I would go to the end of the world.” “Very well, to-morrow, sir.”
Chapter 77 · 📍 [[Hôtel de Bouillon]] · to-morrow
Monsieur de Bouillon Duc de Châtillon
I’ve a good mind to follow your advice and to accept a proposition made to me by the Duc de Châtillon just now.
Chapter 77 · 📍 [[Hôtel de Vendôme]]
if the queen, acknowledging the injuries she has done me, would recall my mother and give me the reversion of the admiralty
Chapter 77 · 📍 [[Saint Cloud]] · yesterday
He received yesterday a message from the Prince de Condé; he went to meet him at Saint Cloud and has not returned.
Chapter 77 · 📍 [[Hôtel de Ville]]
Madame de Longueville Duc de Beaufort
she is installed at the Hôtel de Ville, where she is on the point of giving an heir or an heiress to that dear duke.
Chapter 77 · 📍 [[Place Royale]] · yesterday
“Lieutenant yesterday,” said Aramis, “captain to-day, colonel, doubtless, to-morrow
Chapter 78 · 📍 [[Charenton]]
The ball had entered his breast through a notch in the cuirass.
Chapter 78 · 📍 [[Paris]] · this evening
Chevalier d’Artagnan Porthos Athos Aramis
are they not as like as two drops of water to D’Artagnan and Porthos?
Chapter 79 · 📍 [[Paris]] · the very evening of the day in which the Parisians had been beaten at Charenton
In one of these risings, the Duc de Beaufort pillaged the house and library of Mazarin
Chapter 79 · 📍 [[Péronne]]
Athos Aramis D’Artagnan Porthos
“Eight of the light dragoons are pursuing us. If we reach Compiègne we shall stop at the Peacock.”
Chapter 79
The two friends departed—Aramis to return to Paris, Athos to take measures preparatory to an interview with the queen.
Chapter 80 · 📍 [[Saint Germain]]
These individuals are under arrest. They disobeyed orders.
Chapter 80 · 📍 [[Saint Germain]]
Do what Monsieur de la Fère requests; that is your name, is it not, sir?
Chapter 80 · 📍 [[Saint Germain]] · Scarcely, however, had the tapestry closed behind Athos
Cardinal, desire them to arrest that insolent fellow before he leaves the court.
Chapter 81 · 📍 [[Rueil]]
you will open the conferences. They can take place at Rueil.
Chapter 81
I think it must please me best to remain; not only on account of my own interest, but for your safety.
Chapter 82 · 📍 [[Rueil]]
I am going to make the Comte de la Fère a visit, that I may converse with him tête-à-tête, and that we may not be disturbed at our interview you must conduct him, as I said before, to the pavilion of the orangery; that, you know, is my daily promenade. Well, while taking my walk I will call on him and we will talk. Although he professes to be my enemy I have sympathy for him, and if he is reasonable perhaps we shall arrange matters.
Chapter 82 · 📍 [[Rueil]]
And now, I am a Frondeur—not of Broussel’s party, nor of Blancmesnil’s, nor am I with Viole; but with the Duc de Beaufort, the Ducs de Bouillon and d’Elbeuf; with princes, not with presidents, councillors and low-born lawyers.
Chapter 83 · 📍 [[Saint Germain]] · Yesterday
Yesterday, at Saint Germain, as he came out from the presence of the queen.
Chapter 84
Porthos went to the window, took a bar in his hands, clung to it and bent it like a bow; so that the two ends came out of the sockets of stone in which for thirty years they had been fixed.
Chapter 84
That instant the arm of Porthos fell. His hand of iron grasped, quick as lightning, firm as a pair of blacksmith’s pincers, the soldier’s throat. He raised him, almost stifling him as he drew him through the aperture, at the risk of flaying him in the passage. He then laid him down on the floor, where D’Artagnan, after giving him just time enough to draw his breath, gagged him with his long scarf; and the moment he had done so began to undress him with the promptitude and dexterity of a man who had learned his business on the field of battle.
Chapter 84
Porthos seized his opportunity, caught the next soldier by his neck, gagged him and pushed him like a mummy through the bars into the room, and entered after him.
Chapter 84
Bernouin shut the door and went away. When Porthos heard the key turn in the lock he began to be alarmed, lest they should only have exchanged one prison for another.
Chapter 84
The two friends set to work and crowded the space before the door with all the furniture in the room, as not only to make the passage impassable, but so to block the door that by no means could it open inward.
Chapter 85 · 📍 [[Castle of Rueil]]
D’Artagnan, as we have said, perceived a hole in that place and in this hole the steps of a winding staircase.
Chapter 85
Mazarin gazed at each of them with an affrighted stare, recognized them, and let drop his lantern, uttering a cry of terror.
Chapter 85
Come,” he said, “you have me in a snare, gentlemen. I confess myself conquered. You wish to ask for liberty, and—I give it you.
Chapter 85
Certainly; and on the other hand, my lord, you have lost it, and now, in accordance with the law of war, sir, you must buy it back again.
Chapter 85
Be assured,” answered Mazarin, “that I shall attempt nothing; I give you my word of honor.
Chapter 86
that our parts are changed, and that instead of these gentlemen being my prisoners I am theirs
Chapter 86 · 📍 [[park]]
“Willingly,” said the cardinal; “I will even ask the count to keep it for my sake.”
Chapter 86 · 📍 [[park]]
Porthos held him tight and passed him to D’Artagnan, who seized him by the neck and made him sit down by him
Chapter 86 · 📍 [[gallery]]
but the ransom of that immense treasure buried under the gallery, to which one descends on pushing a spring hidden in the wall, which causes a tub to turn, revealing a staircase—must not one speak of that a little, my lord?”
Chapter 87 · to-night
D’Artagnan Athos Porthos Mazarin
Then he offered us our liberty and we accepted it.
Chapter 87 · 📍 [[Pierrefonds]]
Meanwhile, they gave up to Mazarin the handsomest room in the château.
Chapter 87 · 📍 [[Pierrefonds]]
Mazarin Athos Aramis D’Artagnan Porthos
It is sufficient, count,” he said, and signed the treaty.
Chapter 88
We have therefore taken away monsieur le cardinal to my friend’s château and there we have come to an understanding.
Chapter 88
In twenty-four hours D’Artagnan and Porthos conducted Mazarin to the queen; and the one received his commission, the other his patent of nobility.
Chapter 88 · In twenty-four hours
In twenty-four hours D’Artagnan and Porthos conducted Mazarin to the queen; and the one received his commission, the other his patent of nobility.
Chapter 88 · In twenty-four hours
D’Artagnan Porthos Mazarin Anne of Austria
In twenty-four hours D’Artagnan and Porthos conducted Mazarin to the queen;
Chapter 88
The Duc de Beaufort made his entrance at court, receiving ample reparation for the wrongs he had suffered, and all the honor due to his rank.
Chapter 88
Duc de Longueville Madame de Longueville
The Duc de Longueville gained the government of Pont-de-l’Arche, five hundred thousand francs for his wife and the honor of seeing her son held at the baptismal font by the young king and Henrietta of England.
Chapter 89 · 📍 [[Paris]] · The next day
Louis XIV Anne of Austria Mazarin
The royal procession set out for Paris.
Chapter 89
Rochefort extended his hand to D’Artagnan, who took it. The count wished to speak, but a gush of blood stifled him. He stiffened in the last convulsions of death and expired.
Chapter 89 · 📍 [[tower Saint Jacques la Boucherie]]
The mendicant had kept his word and made Friquet his heir.
Chapter 89 · 📍 [[Palais Royal]] · to-day
Captain,” said the young king to D’Artagnan, on descending from the carriage, “the queen has charged me to invite you to dinner to-day—you and your friend the Baron du Vallon.
Chapter 90 · 📍 [[Rouen]] · while her son is being baptized
The Duchess de Longueville has invited me to pass a few days in Normandy, and has deputed me, while her son is being baptized, to go and prepare her residence at Rouen
Chapter 90 · 📍 [[Flanders]]
I leave him with you, my friend. War has broken out in Flanders. You shall take him with you there.
Chapter 90 · Then
Athos Aramis Porthos D’Artagnan
Then they departed, without knowing whether they would ever see each other again.
Chapter 90
No,” answered Porthos, “Mouston has no desire to fight; besides, they have erected a triumphal arch for me to enter my barony