Twenty Years After

Twenty Years After

By Alexandre Dumas.

Translated by Estes and Lauriat.

Table of Contents

1. Titlepage
2. Imprint
3. I: The Ghost of Cardinal Richelieu
4. II: A Nightly Patrol
5. III: Dead Animosities
6. IV: Anne of Austria at the Age of Forty-Six
7. V: The Gascon and the Italian
8. VI: D’Artagnan in His Fortieth Year
9. VII: Touches Upon the Strange Effects a Half-Pistole May Have Upon a Beadle and a Chorister
10. VIII: How d’Artagnan, on Going to a Distance to Discover Aramis, Discovers His Old Friend on Horseback Behind His Own Planchet
11. IX: The Abbé d’Herblay
12. X: Monsieur Porthos du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds
13. XI: How d’Artagnan, in Discovering the Retreat of Porthos, Perceives That Wealth Does Not Necessarily Produce Happiness
14. XII: In Which It Is Shown That if Porthos Was Discontented with His Condition, Mousqueton Was Completely Satisfied with His
15. XIII: Two Angelic Faces
16. XIV: The Castle of Bragelonne
17. XV: Athos as a Diplomatist
18. XVI: The Duc de Beaufort
19. XVII: Describes How the Duc de Beaufort Amused His Leisure Hours in the Donjon of Vincennes
20. XVIII: Grimaud Begins His Functions
21. XIX: In Which the Contents of the Pâtés Made by the Successor of Father Marteau Are Described
22. XX: One of Marie Michon’s Adventures
23. XXI: The Abbé Scarron
24. XXII: Saint Denis
25. XXIII: One of the Forty Methods of Escape of the Duc de Beaufort
26. XXIV: The Timely Arrival of d’Artagnan in Paris
27. XXV: An Adventure on the High Road
28. XXVI: The Rencontre
29. XXVII: The Four Old Friends Prepare to Meet Again
30. XXVIII: The Place Royale
31. XXIX: The Ferry Across the Oise
32. XXX: Skirmishing
33. XXXI: The Monk
34. XXXII: The Absolution
35. XXXIII: Grimaud Speaks
36. XXXIV: On the Eve of Battle
37. XXXV: A Dinner in the Old Style
38. XXXVI: A Letter from Charles the First
39. XXXVII: Cromwell’s Letter
40. XXXVIII: Henrietta Maria and Mazarin
41. XXXIX: How, Sometimes, the Unhappy Mistake Chance for Providence
42. XL: Uncle and Nephew
43. XLI: Paternal Affection
44. XLII: Another Queen in Want of Help
45. XLIII: In Which It Is Proved That First Impulses Are Oftentimes the Best
46. XLIV: Te Deum for the Victory of Lens
47. XLV: The Beggar of St. Eustache
48. XLVI: The Tower of St. Jacques de la Boucherie
49. XLVII: The Riot
50. XLVIII: The Riot Becomes a Revolution
51. XLIX: Misfortune Refreshes the Memory
52. L: The Interview
53. LI: The Flight
54. LII: The Carriage of Monsieur le Coadjuteur
55. LIII: How d’Artagnan and Porthos Earned by Selling Straw, the One Two Hundred and Nineteen, and the Other Two Hundred and Fifteen Louis d’Or
56. LIV: In Which We Hear Tidings of Aramis
57. LV: The Scotchman
58. LVI: The Avenger
59. LVII: Oliver Cromwell
60. LVIII: Jésus Seigneur
61. LIX: In Which It Is Shown That Under the Most Trying Circumstances Noble Natures Never Lose Their Courage, nor Good Stomachs Their Appetites
62. LX: Respect to Fallen Majesty
63. LXI: D’Artagnan Hits on a Plan
64. LXII: London
65. LXIII: The Trial
66. LXIV: Whitehall
67. LXV: The Workmen
68. LXVI: Remember!
69. LXVII: The Man in the Mask
70. LXVIII: Cromwell’s House
71. LXIX: Conversational
72. LXX: The Skiff Lightning
73. LXXI: Port Wine
74. LXXII: End of the Port Wine Mystery
75. LXXIII: Fatality
76. LXXIV: How Mousqueton, After Being Very Nearly Roasted, Had a Narrow Escape of Being Eaten
77. LXXV: The Return
78. LXXVI: The Ambassadors
79. LXXVII: The Three Lieutenants of the Generalissimo
80. LXXVIII: The Battle of Charenton
81. LXXIX: The Road to Picardy
82. LXXX: The Gratitude of Anne of Austria
83. LXXXI: Cardinal Mazarin as King
84. LXXXII: Precautions
85. LXXXIII: Strength and Sagacity
86. LXXXIV: Strength and Sagacity—Continued
87. LXXXV: The Oubliettes of Cardinal Mazarin
88. LXXXVI: Conferences
89. LXXXVII: In Which We Begin to Think That Porthos Will Be at Last a Baron, and d’Artagnan a Captain
90. LXXXVIII: Shows How with Threat and Pen More Is Effected Than by the Sword
91. LXXXIX: In Which It Is Shown That It Is Sometimes More Difficult for Kings to Return to the Capitals of Their Kingdoms, Than to Make an Exit
92. XC: Conclusion
93. Endnotes
94. Colophon
95. Uncopyright

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I

The Ghost 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