by Alexandre Dumas

Name: Twenty Years After — Chapter 29. The Ferry across the Oise
Author: by Alexandre Dumas

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“Twenty Years After — Chapter 29. The Ferry across the Oise”, published in 1845, is a work by by Alexandre Dumas. It explores elements such as Olivain, Raoul and ferryboat.

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 29… (1845)

“ The host, his mind at ease about his bill, placed pen, ink and paper upon the table. By a lucky chance the pen was tolerably good and Raoul began to write. The host remained standing in front of him, looking with a kind of involuntary admiration at his handsome face, combining both gravity and sweetness of expression. Beauty has always been and always will be all-powerful.
"He's not a guest like the other one here just now," observed mine host to Olivain, who had rejoined his master to see if he wanted anything, "and your young master has no appetite." ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 29… (1845)

“ There you must rest; young people are such braggarts."
It was easy to see that Olivain had not been taught in the school of the Planchets and the Grimauds. Raoul really felt tired, but he was desirous of testing his strength, and, brought up in the principles of Athos and certain of having heard him speak a thousand times of stages of twenty-five leagues, he did not wish to fall far short of his model. D'Artagnan, that man of iron, who seemed to be made of nerve and muscle only, had struck him with admiration. ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 29… (1845)

“ A little troop of men on horseback were waiting on the edge of the stream, ready to embark. Raoul did not doubt this was the gentleman and his escort; he called out to him, but they were too distant to be heard; then, in spite of the weariness of his beast, he made it gallop but the rising ground soon deprived him of all sight of the travelers, and when he had again attained a new height, the ferryboat had left the shore and was making for the opposite bank. Raoul, seeing that he could not arrive in time to cross the ferry with the travelers, halted to wait for Olivain. ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 29… (1845)

“ Another recollection contributed also to sadden Raoul: on their arrival at Sonores he had perceived, hidden behind a screen of poplars, a little chateau which so vividly recalled that of La Valliere to his mind that he halted for nearly ten minutes to gaze at it, and resumed his journey with a sigh too abstracted even to reply to Olivain's respectful inquiry about the cause of so much fixed attention. The aspect of external objects is often a mysterious guide communicating with the fibres of memory, which in spite of us will arouse them at times ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 29… (1845)

“ Olivain advanced, retired, then made his horse rear - turned it and then, struck to the core by shame, leaped, as Raoul had done, only repeating:
"I am a dead man! we are lost!"
In the meantime, the ferryboat had floated away, carried down by the stream, and the shrieks of those whom it contained resounded more and more. A man with gray hair had thrown himself from the boat into the river and was swimming vigorously toward the person who was drowning; but being obliged to go against the current he advanced but slowly. Raoul continued his way and was visibly gaining ground ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 29… (1845)

“ I hope that you will sometimes, too, think of me, and if at certain hours you should miss me, if you should feel any slight regret at my absence, I shall be overwhelmed with joy at the thought that you appreciate my affection for and my devotion to yourself, and that I have been able to prove them to you whilst I had the happiness of diving with you. ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 29… (1845)

“ Raoul at the same time seized one of the young man's hands and placed it on the mane, which it grasped with the tenacity of a drowning man. Thus, sure that the rider would not release his hold, Raoul now only directed his attention to the horse, which he guided to the opposite bank, helping it to cut through the water and encouraging it with words.
All at once the horse stumbled against a ridge and then placed its foot on the sand. ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 29… (1845)

“ During this time Olivain had finished his bottle and eaten his pie; the horses were also refreshed. Raoul motioned to the host to approach, threw a crown upon the table, mounted his horse, and posted his letter at Senlis. The rest that had been thus afforded to men and horses enabled them to continue their journey at a good round pace. At Verberie, Raoul desired Olivain to make some inquiry about the young man who was preceding them ”

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