by Alexandre Dumas

Name: Twenty Years After — Chapter 8. How D'Artagnan, on going to a Distance to discover Aramis, discovers his old Friend on Horseback behind his own Planchet
Author: by Alexandre Dumas

Twenty Years After — Chapter 8… (1845)

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“Twenty Years After — Chapter 8. How D'Artagnan, on going to a Distance to discover Aramis, discovers his old Friend on Horseback behind his own Planchet”, published in 1845, is a work by by Alexandre Dumas. It explores elements such as D'Artagnan, Planchet and sword.

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 8… (1845)

“ They had traveled onward about half a mile when Planchet came close up to D'Artagnan.
"Stop, sir, look yonder," he whispered; "don't you see in the darkness something pass by, like shadows? I fancy I hear horses' feet."
"Impossible!" returned D'Artagnan. "The ground is soaking wet; yet I fancy, as thou sayest, that I see something."
At this moment the neighing of a horse struck his ear, coming through darkness and space.
"There are men somewhere about, but that's of no consequence to us," said D'Artagnan; "let us ride onward." ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 8… (1845)

“ My dear Planchet," said D'Artagnan, sighing, "we are unfortunately no longer in those times in which princes would care to assassinate me. Those were good old days; never fear -- these people owe us no grudge." ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 8… (1845)

“ D'Artagnan thought it was now time for him to join in the conversation.
"Halloo, gentlemen!" he called out in his Gascon accent, "What do you want? what do you demand?"
"That thou shalt soon know," shouted a chorus of horsemen.
"Stop, stop!" cried he whom they had addressed as "my lord;" "'Tis not his voice."
"Ah! Just so, gentlemen! pray, do people get into a passion at random at Noisy? Take care, for I warn you that the first man that comes within the length of my sword -- and my sword is long -- I rip him up." ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 8… (1845)

“ And the troop, grumbling angrily, disappeared in the darkness and took the road to Paris. D'Artagnan and Planchet remained for some moments still on the defensive; then, as the noise of the horsemen became more and more distant, they sheathed their swords.
"Thou seest, simpleton," said D'Artagnan to his servant, "that they wished no harm to us."
"But to whom, then?"
"I'faith! I neither know nor care. What I do care for now, is to make my way into the Jesuits' convent; so to horse and let us knock at their door. Happen what will, the devil take them, they can't eat us." ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 8… (1845)

“ These were the only living creatures that seemed to inhabit the village.
Toward the middle of the town, commanding the principal open space, rose a dark mass, separated from the rest of the world by two lanes and overshadowed in the front by enormous lime-trees. D'Artagnan looked attentively at the building.
"This," he said to Planchet, "must be the archbishop's chateau, the abode of the fair Madame de Longueville; but the convent, where is that?"
"The convent, your honor, is at the other end of the village; I know it well." ”

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by Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After — Chapter 8… (1845)

“ Here and there a dog barked behind a door or an affrighted cat fled precipitately from the midst of the pavement to take refuge behind a pile of faggots, from which retreat her eyes would shine like peridores. ”

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