by Alexandre Dumas

Name: Twenty Years After — Chapter 2. A Nightly Patrol
Author: by Alexandre Dumas

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“Twenty Years After — Chapter 2. A Nightly Patrol”, published in 1845, is a work by by Alexandre Dumas. It explores elements such as Guitant, D'Artagnan and Mazarin.

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 2… (1845)

“ Mazarin shook his head.
"Ah!" he said; "some ministers are fortunate and find out all that they wish to know."
"My lord," replied Guitant, "such ministers do not weigh men in the same balance; they get their information on war from warriors; on intrigues, from intriguers. Consult some politician of the period of which you speak, and if you pay well for it you will certainly get to know all you want."
"Eh, pardieu!" said Mazarin, with a grimace which he always made when spoken to about money. "They will be paid, if there is no way of getting out of it." ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 2… (1845)

“ They sing -- let them pay the piper. During the Ligue, about which Guitant was speaking just now, the people chanted nothing except the mass, so everything went to destruction. Come, Guitant, come along, and let's see if they keep watch at the Quinze-Vingts as at the Barriere des Sergens."
And waving his hand to Comminges he rejoined D'Artagnan, who instantly put himself at the head of his troop, followed by the cardinal, Guitant and the rest of the escort.
"Just so," muttered Comminges, looking after Mazarin. "True, I forgot; provided he can get money out of the people, that is all he wants." ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 2… (1845)

“ But you know, Guitant, we poor ministers often want men with other qualities besides courage; we want men of talent. Pray, was not Monsieur d'Artagnan, in the time of the cardinal, mixed up in some intrigue from which he came out, according to report, quite cleverly? ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 2… (1845)

“ Now the Italians and the Gascons are too much alike and know each other too well ever to trust what any one of them may say of himself; so in reaching the walls which surrounded the Palais Royal, the cardinal knocked at a little door, and after thanking D'Artagnan and requesting him to wait in the court of the Palais Royal, he made a sign to Guitant to follow him. ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 2… (1845)

“ It seems that some days since Councillor Bachaumont remarked at the palace that rebels and agitators reminded him of schoolboys slinging -- qui frondent -- stones from the moats round Paris, young urchins who run off the moment the constable appears, only to return to their diversion the instant his back is turned. ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 2… (1845)

“ Guitant, without reply, rode forward and desired the sentinel to call Monsieur de Villequier.
"Ah! so you are here!" cried the officer, in the tone of ill-humor habitual to him; "what the devil are you doing here?"
"I wish to know -- can you tell me, pray -- is anything fresh occurring in this part of the town?"
"What do you mean? People cry out, `Long live the king! down with Mazarin!' That's nothing new; no, we've been used to those acclamations for some time."
"And you sing chorus," replied Guitant, laughing.
"Faith, I've half a mind to do it. In my opinion the people are right ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 2… (1845)

“ All that he had heard from these three different men, Comminges, Guitant and Villequier, confirmed him in his conviction that in case of serious tumults there would be no one on his side except the queen; and then Anne of Austria had so often deserted her friends that her support seemed most precarious. ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 2… (1845)

“ De Treville knows him and esteems him very highly, and De Treville, as you know, is one of the queen's greatest friends. As a soldier the man ranks well; he did his whole duty and even more, at the siege of Rochelle -- as at Suze and Perpignan. ”

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