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TWENTY YEARS AFTER Alexandre Dumas Dumas, Alexandre (1802-1870) - French Novelist and Playwright Who Is Best Known for His Swash-Buckling Historical Romances 1845 TWENTY YEARS AFTER Alexandre Dumas Dumas, Alexandre (1802-1870) - French novelist and playwright who is best known for his swash-buckling historical romances. Twenty Years After (1845) - The second in a series of books that follows the fortunes of D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Its action takes place twenty years after the end of “The Three Musketeers.” The last book in this well-known series is “The Vis- count of Bragelonne” (See also “The Man in the Iron Mask”). Table Of Contents PART ONE CHAPTER I The Phantom of Richelieu . 19 CHAPTER II A Night-round . 34 CHAPTER III Two Old Enemies . 48 CHAPTER IV Anne of Austria at the Age of Forty-six . 72 CHAPTER V The Gascon and the Italian . 88 CHAPTER VI D’Artagnan at Forty Years of Age . 98 CHAPTER VII D’Artagnan Is at a Loss, But One of Our Old Acquaintances Comes to His Aid . 108 CHAPTER VIII Of the Different Influences Which Half a Pistole Can Have on a Beadle and a Choir Boy . 122 CHAPTER IX How d’Artagnan, Looking for Aramis Far Away, Perceived Him on the Crupper Behind Planchet . 135 CHAPTER X The Abbe d’Herblay . 148 CHAPTER XI The Two Gaspards . 162 CHAPTER XII M. Porthos du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds . 179 CHAPTER XIII How d’Artagnan Perceived in Finding Porthos that Riches Do Not Make Happiness . 188 Chapter XIV In Which Is Shown That if Porthos Was Discontented With His Lot, Mousqueton Was Satisfied With His . 203 CHAPTER XV Two Angels’ Heads . 213 CHAPTER XVI The Chateau de Bragelonne . 226 CHAPTER XVII Athos’s Diplomacy . 239 CHAPTER XVIII Monsieur de Beaufort . 256 CHAPTER XIX How the Duc de Beaufort Amused Himself in the Prison at Vincennes . 266 CHAPTER XX Grimaud on Duty . 281 CHAPTER XXI What the Pies Made by Father Marteau’s Successor Contained . 300 CHAPTER XXII An Adventure of Marie Michon . 317 CHAPTER XXIII The Abbe Scarron . 337 CHAPTER XXIV St. Denis . 363 CHAPTER XXV One of M. de Beaufort’s Forty Means of Escape . 376 CHAPTER XXVI D’Artagnan’s Timely Arrival . 392 CHAPTER XXVII The King’s Highway . 408 CHAPTER XXVIII The Meeting . 420 CHAPTER XXIX Four Old Friends Preparing for a Conference . 435 CHAPTER XXX The Place Royale . 449 CHAPTER XXXI The Oise Ferry-Boat . 457 CHAPTER XXXII Skirmish . 471 CHAPTER XXXIII The Monk . 480 CHAPTER XXXIV The Absolution . 497 CHAPTER XXXV Grimaud Speaks . 506 CHAPTER XXXVI The Eve of Battle . 516 CHAPTER XXXVII A Dinner As of Yore . 533 CHAPTER XXXVIII The Letter from Charles I . 547 CHAPTER XXXIX Cromwell’s Letter . 556 CHAPTER XL Mazarin and Queen Henrietta . 568 Chapter XLI How the Unfortunate Sometimes Mistake Chance for Providence . 577 CHAPTER XLII The Uncle and the Nephew . 589 CHAPTER XLIII Paternity . 595 CHAPTER XLIV Again a Queen Who Asks Aid . 609 CHAPTER XLV In Which it Is Proved That the First Move Is Always a Good One . 628 PART TWO CHAPTER I The Te Deum for the Victory of Lens . 640 CHAPTER II The Mendicant of St. Eustache . 667 CHAPTER III The Tower of St. Jacques . 684 CHAPTER IV The Riot . 696 CHAPTER V The Riot Becomes a Revolt . 707 CHAPTER VI Misfortune Is a Help to Memory . 726 CHAPTER VII The Interview . 736 CHAPTER VIII The Flight . 747 CHAPTER IX Monsieur the Coadjutor’s Coach . 767 CHAPTER X How d’Artagnan Gained Two Hundred and Nineteen Louis, and Porthos Two Hundred and Fifteen Louis, by Selling Straw . 788 CHAPTER XI News from Aramis . 802 CHAPTER XII L’Ecossais, parjure a sa foi, Pour un denier vendit son roi . 820 CHAPTER XIII The Avenger . 834 CHAPTER XIV Oliver Cromwell . 847 CHAPTER XV The Gentlemen . 856 CHAPTER XVI The Lord Our Saviour . 865 CHAPTER XVII In Which Is Proved That in the Most Trying Circumstances Brave Men Never Lose Their Courage, Nor Hungry Ones Their Appetite . 876 CHAPTER XVIII Health to the Fallen Majesty . 889 CHAPTER XIX D’Artagnan Finds a Plan . 903 CHAPTER XX The Party at Lansquenet . 921 CHAPTER XXI London . 931 CHAPTER XXII The Trial . 941 CHAPTER XXIII Whitehall . 955 CHAPTER XXIV The Workmen . 969 CHAPTER XXV Remember . 981 CHAPTER XXVI The Man in the Mask . 991 CHAPTER XXVII Cromwell’s House . 1006 CHAPTER XXVIII The Conversation . 1018 CHAPTER XXIX The “Lightning” Felucca . 1033 CHAPTER XXX The Port Wine . 1050 CHAPTER XXXI The Port Wine (concluded) . 1065 CHAPTER XXXII Fatality . 1073 CHAPTER XXXIII In Which Is Told How Mousqueton, After Having Missed Being Roasted, Escaped Being Eaten . 1084 CHAPTER XXXIV The Return . 1097 CHAPTER XXXV The Ambassadors . 1109 CHAPTER XXVI The Three Lieutenants of the Generalissimo . 1122 CHAPTER XXXVII The Combat At Charenton . 1144 CHAPTER XXXVIII Journey to Picardy . 1160 CHAPTER XXXIX The Gratitude of Anne of Austria . 1172 CHAPTER XL The Royalty of M. de Mazarin . 1180 CHAPTER XLI Precautions . 1187 CHAPTER XLII Strength of Mind and Strength of Arm . 1196 CHAPTER XLIII Strength of Mind and Strength of Arm (concluded) . 1202 CHAPTER XLIV Strength of Arm and Strength of Mind . 1211 CHAPTER XLV Strength of Arm and Strength of Mind (concluded) . 1214 CHAPTER XLVI M. Mazarin’s Oubliettes . 1226 CHAPTER XLVII Conferences . 1232 CHAPTER XLVIII In Which One Begins to Believe that Porthos Will At Last Be Made a Baron, and d’Artagnan a Captain . 1242 CHAPTER XLIX How Greater Progress Is Made with a Pen and a Threat Than By the Sword and Devotedness . 1256 CHAPTER L How Greater Progress Is Made with a Pen and a Threat, Than By the Sword and Devotedness (conclusion) . 1268 CHAPTER LI Where it Is Shown that it Is Sometimes More Difficult for Kings to Return to Their Capital than to Leave it . 1278 CHAPTER LII Where it is Shown that it Is Sometimes More Difficult for Kings to Return to Their Capital than to Leave it (conclusion) . 1288 CONCLUSION . 1295 PART ONE, CHAPTER I The Phantom of Richelieu IN A ROOM of the Palais-Cardinal which we already know, near a table with silver gilt corners, loaded with papers and books, a man was sitting, his head rest- ing in his hands. Behind him was a vast fireplace, red with fire, whose blazing brands were crumbling upon large gilded fire-dogs. The light from this fire illumined from be- hind the magnificent dress of this dreamer, as the light from a candelabra filled with candles illumined it in front. To see this red gown and these rich laces, to see this forehead pale and bent down in meditation, to see the solitude of this cabinet, the silence of the antecham- bers, the measured step of the guards upon the landing, one could well believe that the ghost of Cardinal Richelieu was still in his chamber. Alas, it was in fact only the shadow of the great man. France enfeebled, the authority of the king disregarded, the great nobles again strong and turbulent, the enemy once more on this side of the frontiers, everything bore testimony that Richelieu was no longer there. But that which showed still more than all else that the red gown was not that of the old cardinal was this isolation, which seemed, as we have said, rather that of a phantom than of a living person; it was these corridors void of courtiers, these courtyards full of guards; it was the mocking expressions which came up from the streets and penetrated the windows of this chamber shaken by the breath of a whole city leagued against the minister; it was, in fine, the distant sound, con- tinually renewed, of fire-arms, discharged happily without aim or effect, and only to show the Guards, the Swiss, the Musketeers, and the soldiers who surrounded the Palais-Royal- for the Palais-Cardinal itself had changed its name- that the peo- ple also had arms. This phantom of Richelieu was Mazarin. Now, Mazarin was alone, and felt himself to be weak. “Foreigner!” murmured he, “Italian! This is their great epithet launched at me. With this word they assassinated, hanged, and destroyed Concini; and if I let them do it, they would assassinate, hang, and destroy me like him, although I have never done them other harm than to squeeze them a little. Simpletons! They do not perceive that their enemy is not this Italian who speaks French badly, but rather those who have the talent to say to them fine words in a very pure Parisian accent. “Yes, yes,” continued the minister, with his subtle smile which this time seemed strange on his pale lips,- “yes, your mutterings tell me the lot of favorites is precarious; but if you know that, you ought also to know that I am not an ordi- nary favorite. The Earl of Essex had a splendid ring enriched with diamonds that his royal mistress gave him; as for me, I have only a plain ring with initials and a date, but this ring has been blessed in the chapel of the Palais-Royal. So they will not ruin me as they would like to. They do not perceive that with their eternal cry of ‘Down with Mazarin,’ I make them at one time cry, ‘Long live Beaufort,’ at an- other, ‘Long live the prince,’ and at another, ‘Long live the parliament.’ Very well. Beaufort is at Vincennes. The prince will go to rejoin him one day or an- other, and the parliament-” here the smile of the cardinal changed to an expres- sion of hate of which his mild face seemed incapable. “Well, the parliament- We will see what we will do with the parliament. We have Orleans and Montargis. Oh, I will take time for this! But those who have commenced by crying ‘Down with Mazarin’ will finish by crying ‘Down with all those people,’ each one in his turn.
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