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...amis and D'Artagnan continues! The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard ) is the last of the Musketeer novels. It is usually divided into four volumes and this first volume contains chapters 1-75. (Summary by Diana Majlinger)...

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...The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the t...

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...1 GREAT ADVENTURE BEGINS . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 THREE MUSKETEERS TIMES TWO . . . . . . . 11 3 AIR-TO-GROUND BATTLE FOR ITALY . . . . .45 4 OPERATION STRANGLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65...

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... hate it when he tries to be poetic. “We are joined forever like the three musketeers, the three little pigs, the good, the bad and the ugly.” “Do yo...

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...cooperation. A perfect example is Alexander Dumas’s famous book: “The Three Musketeers”: a group of equals; whose logo is “All for one and one for ...

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...andre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...niversity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas [Pere] AUTHOR’S PREFACE IN WHICH IT IS PROVED... ... relates that on his first visit to M. de T reville, captain of the king’s Musketeers, he met in the antechamber three young men, serving in the illus... ...ng received, bearing the names of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. 4 The Three Musketeers We must confess these three strange names struck us; and it imme... ...from ca- price, discontent, or want of fortune, they had donned the simple Musketeer’s uniform. >From the moment we had no rest till we could find som... ..., the blue color of which had faded into a nameless shade be- 6 The Three Musketeers tween lees of wine and a heavenly azure; face long and brown; hi... ...t in spite of edicts, ordinances, and decrees, there he is, captain of the Musketeers; that is to say, chief of a legion of Caesars, whom the king hol... ...Monsieur de T reville gains ten thousand crowns a year; he is 8 The Three Musketeers therefore a great noble. He began as you begin. Go to him with t...

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...ount of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo ) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers , as Dumas's most popular work. The writing of the work was completed in 1844. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from the plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet.The story take...

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... ... ... the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmis... ...ostled, on the stair- case, Madame Cropole, Pittrino, and the waiters and scul- lions. The cortege advanced slowly, lighted by a thousand flam- beaux,... ...he cardinal and the queen-mother looked at each other with surprise. Louis XIV., pale, but resolved, supported as he was by that intuition of his own ... ...of the head, to give the king permission. Monsieur and Madame hastened to give orders to the officers who presented themselves. The king bowed, crosse... ...musketeers awaited him. At the extremity of this hedge stood the officer, impassible, with his drawn sword in his hand. The king passed, and all the c... ... This little cortege escorted the king to the chamber des- tined for him. The apartment was the same that had been occupied by Henry III. during his s... ...ind and before him, stopped likewise. “The duc, sire,” continued Gaston, “was nearly where I stand: he was walking in the same direction as your maj- ... ...ent, all unworthy as it is to receive you?” “Uncle,” replied the young king, “I render you my thanks for your cordial hospitality.” Gaston bowed to hi...

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... ... ...ania State University assumes any re- sponsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in ... ...n account of the ceremonial of the day, and that they would soon withdraw. In fact, about four o’clock they were all concentrated about the Palais Roy... ...ack silently advanced and stood behind the chair on which Mazarin sat. “Bernouin,” said the cardinal, not turning round, for having whistled, he knew ... ...” “Treville’s company.” “Is there any officer belonging to this company in the ante-chamber?” “Lieutenant d’Artagnan.” “A man on whom we can depend, I... ...ally when they happen to be of swart complexion. D’Artagnan advanced a few steps into the apartment. How perfectly he remembered his former entrance i... ... suppose that there is any danger in so doing?” “Danger, my lord!” exclaimed D’Artagnan with a look of astonishment, “what danger?” “I am told that th... ...at were not the case I would engage with four of my men to put to flight a hundred of these clowns.” “Did you witness the injury sustained by Comminge... ...ssel seemed in the highest favor. D’Artagnan passed through the very midst of this dis- contented mob just as if his horse and he had been made of iro...

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... ladies were busy making mats; the guardsmen yawned and sprawled. Half a dozen rifles lay on a rock and a cut- lass was leaned against a pillar: the a... ...eeding and com- mand. ‘He looked like a man who would kill you laugh- ing,’ said A., in singular echo of one of the king’s expres- sions. And again: ‘...

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...er, jeer, worrit, worrit, all day long! I had rather be a mark for all the musketeers in the Parliamentary army.” This Deborah always said when she wa... ...e ghosts and hobgoblins. Oh! I had rather be set up for a mark for all the musketeers in the Par- liament army, than set one foot out of doors after d... ...h, “Oh don’t speak so kind! I had rather stand up to be a mark for all the musketeers in the Parliament army than be where I am now.” Edmund did not h... ...it had been bitten out at the root! I wish—I wish I was a mark for all the musketeers in the Par- liament army this minute! And Diggory, the rogue! Oh... ...e angry key. “Your’n, indeed! I’d rather stand up to be a mark for all the musketeers in the Parliament army, as poor Master Edmund is like to be, all...

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...d kissed each other by a look which would have set light to the match of a musketeer, if the musketeer had been there. It was certain that a love so f...

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... figure in the world.” At nineteen, like D’Artagnan, he entered the King’s Musketeers. At twenty he was made a cap- tain in the cavalry; and the same ... ...l, should be exempt from serving for a year in one of his two companies of musketeers; and passing afterwards through the ordeal of being private or s... ... not been for many years, and begged of the King admission for me into the Musketeers. It was on the day of St. Simon and St. Jude, at half-past twelv... ...good opin- ion that his Majesty had of me. Three months after entering the Musketeers, that is to say, in the March of the following year, the King he... ...rney on horseback with the soldiers and all the attendants, like the other Musketeers, and continued to do so through the whole campaign. I was accomp... ...ed in broad daylight by a detachment of the oldest of the two companies of Musketeers. The siege of the castle next commenced. The position of the cam... ...bject having already made much noise. I arrived with the detachment of the Musketeers at the mo- ment of the refusal of the others; and I loaded my sa... ...e into Germany, and in a very few months did so. My year of service in the Musketeers being over, the King, after a time, gave me, without purchase, a... ...le after midday, full of ladies and courtiers, guarded by two companies of Musketeers. There was a good deal of leave- taking, and all the family was ...

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...ered off over the flagged path, held up her lips to be kissed by the Three Musketeers. Ortheris wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and swore se... ...All St. Patrick’s Alley Was there to see. —Robert Buchanan. AS THE THREE MUSKETEERS share their silver, tobacco, and liquor together, as they protec... ...on him. I climbed one of the bastions and watched the figures of the Three Musketeers grow smaller and smaller across the plain. They were walking as ... ... down.’ Learoyd had the basket on the pontoon in an instant, and the Three Musketeers gathered round it with dry lips. They drank my health in due and... ...hour for five an’ a ‘arf miles! We’ll ‘ave to run like Jimmy O.’ The Three Musketeers clambered on to the bridge, and departed hastily in the directio... ...ressed chuckle, and my beast sprang forward with a lighter step. The Three Musketeers had vanished into the night. L ’ENVOI And they were stronger h...

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...nne. I know not a more human soul, nor, in his way, a finer; I shall be very sorry for the man who is so much of a pedant in morals that he cannot lea...

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... off diamond crosses from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles’s, to search for contraband goods, and the m... ...into St. Giles’s, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the musketeers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of ...

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... of the noble. The Chevalier was a man of the good old times when the Gray Musketeers were the terror of the Paris theatres, when they horsewhipped th...

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...he degenerate moorsmen must be content to tell the tale in prose, and to make of the “Four Black Brothers” a unit after the fashion of the “T welve Ap...

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...he hazard of his life against a henroost; he must dis- lodge four rascally musketeers out of a barn; he must prick out single from his party, as neces...

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...s arose partly from the necessity under which they lay of attacking expert musketeers under cover of breastworks, and partly from their own precipitan... ...many, such entertainments com- menced. Repeated volleys from long lines of musketeers, drawn up in the square, and at the other entrances of the palac... ...adies, “who in the next moment must lay bare his breast to the Landgrave’s musketeers.” The figure, meantime, stood tranquil and collected, ap- parent... ...with a subtle V enetian coun- tenance, one hand waving back a half file of musketeers, and the other raised as if to arrest the arm of The Masque, was...

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... wit, but I have his strength of mind. I am more /Regence/ than ever, more Musketeer, Abbe Dubois, and Marechal de Richelieu! By the Holy Poker!—My wi...

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...f them against the T urks; hav- ing in every one of them a targetter and a musketeer, and a number of harquebuses piled ready and loaded, and all cov-...

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... in its noble natural condition this was the very wine of Anjou so beloved by Athos in the ‘Musketeers.’ Now, if the reader has ever washed down a lib...

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...“He could make American business men look like characters out of the Three Musketeers, they said, and he was beginning to be popular. He made love to ...

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...e, but the remark had set us all on the alert, straining ears and eyes—the musketeers with their pieces balanced in their hands, the captain out in th...

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...ale 160 The French Revolution—V olume Two paralysis of these two Le Blanc musketeers; the drooping of Drouet’s under-jaw; and how Procureur Sausse ha...

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...ic. Dr. Melchior Hubner, who had been a miller’s man, wished for a hundred musketeers to mow them down; but the Town Clerk pro- posed that all the Cou...

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...lly more and more incoherent— ”And, comrade, you will be sure to keep your musketeers in advance of your stand of pikes, Lochaber-axes, and two- hande...

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...k an affectionate farewell; and Waverley, having mounted his horse, with a musketeer leading it by the bridle, and a file upon each side to prevent hi...

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..., you fell into a cunningly laid ambush, and became a target for a body of musketeers whose tattooed limbs you could just see peeping into view throug...

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...In this, the last of the Three Musketeers novels, Dumas builds on the true story of a mysterious prisoner held incognito in the French penal system, forced to wear a mask when seen by any but his jailer or his valet. If you have skipped the novels between ...

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...ainst this dangerous post Gustavus now directed his at- tack; five hundred musketeers, supported by a 288 The History of the Thirty Y ears’ War few i... ...ay, deepened the trenches which ran along its sides, and planted them with musketeers, so as to make the crossing of it both difficult and dangerous. ... ...horse were interspersed among the divisions of the infantry, and troops of musketeers placed here and there among the cavalry. The army was arranged i... ...attalions maintained the attack with undaunted cour- age, till the enemy’s musketeers abandoned their posts, the trenches were passed, the bat- tery c... ... one respectfully made way for him as he rode along, immediately ordered a musketeer to take aim at him. “Fire at him yonder,” said he, “that must be ...

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... where he stood. “Mother! The dew is cold but clear…. It’s well that I’m a musketeer…” he sang, pretending to hiccough after each syllable. “Look out,...

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...wheels seemed to fill his ears, and now again drawn out in a thin line the musketeers were descending the hill, the French were firing, and he felt hi... ...k! Look there!” one soldier was saying to an- other, pointing to a Russian musketeer who had gone up *”This is a pleasure one gets in camp, Prince.” ... ...here he stood. “Mother! The dew is cold but clear.... It’s well that I’m a musketeer...” he sang, pretending to hiccough af- ter each syllable. “Look ...

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... was saying to another, 78 War and Peace – Book Two pointing to a Russian musketeer who had gone up to the picket line with an officer and was rapidl...

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... Sidney Webb were sowing our political wild oats as a sort of Fabian Three Musketeers, without any prevision of the surprising respect- ability of the...

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...tleman, “shall see fit to persist in bringing these mercenary sworders and musketeers into our quiet streets, not on our heads be the responsibility. ...

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...kind of nondescript, half scholar, and by nature half billman or bowman or musketeer; if I’m worth anything, London’s the field for me. But that’s wha...

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...to defeat them, and by them began his charge and victory. And now that our musketeers are in credit, I believe some invention will be found out to imm...

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...a kind of Natural loyalty, gather round it; will prove, by pamphleteering, musketeering, that it is a truth; or if not an unmixed (unearthly, impossib... ...vant!”—One fancies in that case the pale pa- ralysis of these two Le Blanc musketeers; the drooping of Drouet’s under-jaw; and how Procureur Sausse ha...