Twenty Years After

By Dumas, Pere Alexandre

Book Id: WPLBN0000623206
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Title:	Twenty Years After
Author:	Dumas, Pere Alexandre
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: 1. The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu. In a splendid chamber of the Palais Royal, formerly styled the Palais Cardinal, a man was sitting in deep reverie, his head supported on his hands, leaning over a gilt and inlaid table which was covered with letters and papers. Behind this figure glowed a vast fireplace alive with leaping flames; great logs of oak blazed and crackled on the polished brass andirons whose flicker shone upon the superb habiliments of the lonely tenant of the room, which was illumined grandly by twin candelabra rich with wax?lights.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Twenty Years After, 1 -- Alexandre Dumas, Pere, 1 -- 1. The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu, 3 -- 2. A Nightly Patrol, 9 -- 3. Dead Animosities, 15 -- 4. Anne of Austria at the Age of Forty?six, 26 -- 5. The Gascon and the Italian, 33 -- 6. D'Artagnan in his Fortieth Year, 37 -- 7. Touches upon the Strange Effects a Half?pistole may have upon a Beadle and a Chorister, 46 -- 8. How D'Artagnan, on going to a Distance to discover Aramis, discovers his old Friend on -- Horseback behind his own Planchet, 51 -- 9. The Abbe D'Herblay, 57 -- 10. Monsieur Porthos du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds, 70 -- 11. How D'Artagnan, in discovering the Retreat of Porthos, perceives that Wealth does not -- necessarily produce Happiness, 73 -- 12. In which it is shown that if Porthos was discontented with his Condition, Musqueton was -- completely satisfied with his, 80 -- 13. Two Angelic Faces, 84 -- 14. The Castle of Bragelonne, 89 -- 15. Athos as a Diplomatist, 93 -- 16. The Duc de Beaufort, 100 -- 17. Describes how the Duc de Beaufort amused his Leisure Hours in the Donjon of Vincennes, 104 -- 18. Grimaud begins his Functions, 109 -- 19. In which the Contents of the Pates made by the Successor of Father Marteau are described, 116 -- 20. One of Marie Michon's Adventures, 123 -- 21. The Abbe Scarron, 132 -- 22. Saint Denis, 140 -- 23. One of the Forty Methods of Escape of the Duc de Beaufort, 144 -- 24. The timely Arrival of D'Artagnan in Paris, 152 -- 25. An Adventure on the High Road, 158 -- 26. The Rencontre, 165 -- 27. The four old Friends prepare to meet again, 172 -- 28. The Place Royale, 179 -- 29. The Ferry across the Oise, 182 -- 30. Skirmishing, 188 -- 31. The Monk, 191 -- 32. The Absolution, 199 -- 33. Grimaud Speaks, 203 -- 34. On the Eve of Battle, 208 -- 35. A Dinner in the Old Style, 215 -- 36. A Letter from Charles the First, 221 -- 37. Cromwell's Letter, 224 -- 38. Henrietta Maria and Mazarin, 229 -- 39. How, sometimes, the Unhappy mistake Chance for Providence, 232 -- 40. Uncle and Nephew, 238 -- 41. Paternal Affection, 240 -- 42. Another Queen in Want of Help, 246 -- 43. In which it is proved that first Impulses are oftentimes the best, 254 -- Twenty Years After -- i