by Alexandre Dumas

Name: Twenty Years After — Chapter 27. The four old Friends prepare to meet again
Author: by Alexandre Dumas

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“Twenty Years After — Chapter 27. The four old Friends prepare to meet again”, published in 1845, is a work by by Alexandre Dumas. It explores elements such as D'Artagnan, Aramis and Porthos.

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 27… (1845)

“ Let us take our precautions, Athos."
"But suppose they come unarmed? What a disgrace to us."
"Oh, never fear! besides, if they do, we can easily make an excuse; we came straight off a journey and are insurgents, too."
"An excuse for us! to meet D'Artagnan with a false excuse! to have to make a false excuse to Porthos! Oh, Aramis!" continued Athos, shaking his head mournfully, "upon my soul, you make me the most miserable of men; you disenchant a heart not wholly dead to friendship. Go in whatever guise you choose; for my part, I shall go unarmed." ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 27… (1845)

“ Besides we can be on our guard; let us take arms, let Planchet post himself behind us with his carbine."
"Planchet is a Frondeur," answered D'Artagnan.
"Devil take these civil wars! one can no more now reckon on one's friends than on one's footmen," said Porthos. "Ah! if Musqueton were here! there's a fellow who will never desert me!"
"So long as you are rich! Ah! my friend! 'tis not civil war that disunites us. It is that we are each of us twenty years older; it is that the honest emotions of youth have given place to suggestions of interest, whispers of ambition, counsels of selfishness. ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 27… (1845)

“ He said, `As to your friend, tell him he may sleep in peace.'"
"Good, very good," said Porthos; "that signified as clear as daylight that he still intends to make me a baron."
At this moment nine o'clock struck. D'Artagnan started.
"Ah, yes," said Porthos, "there is nine o'clock. We have a rendezvous, you remember, at the Place Royale."
"Ah! stop! hold your peace, Porthos, don't remind me of it; 'tis that which has made me so cross since yesterday. I shall not go."
"Why?" asked Porthos. ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 27… (1845)

“ Aramis, you think that D'Artagnan, that Porthos, would lend their hands to such an infamy?"
"Among friends, my dear Athos, no, you are right; but among enemies it would be only a stratagem."
Athos crossed his arms and bowed his noble head.
"What can you expect, Athos? Men are so made; and we are not always twenty years old. We have cruelly wounded, as you know, that personal pride by which D'Artagnan is blindly governed. He has been beaten. ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 27… (1845)

“ D'Artagnan did not believe Athos to be capable of a deception, but he sought an excuse for not going to the rendezvous.
"We must go," said the superb lord of Bracieux, "lest they should say we were afraid. We who have faced fifty foes on the high road can well meet two in the Place Royale."
"Yes, yes, but they took part with the princes without apprising us of it. Athos and Aramis have played a game with me which alarms me. We discovered yesterday the truth; what is the use of going to-day to learn something else?"
"You really have some distrust, then?" said Porthos. ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 27… (1845)

“ Yes, you are right; let us go, Porthos, but let us go well armed; were we not to keep the rendezvous, they would declare we were afraid. Halloo! Planchet! here! saddle our horses, take your carbine."
"Whom are we going to attack, sir?"
"No one; a mere matter of precaution," answered the Gascon.
"You know, sir, that they wished to murder that good councillor, Broussel, the father of the people?"
"Really, did they?" said D'Artagnan.
"Yes, but he has been avenged. He was carried home in the arms of the people. His house has been full ever since. ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 27… (1845)

“ He has received visits from the coadjutor, from Madame de Longueville, and the Prince de Conti; Madame de Chevreuse and Madame de Vendome have left their names at his door. And now, whenever he wishes - - "
"Well, whenever he wishes?" ”

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