D’Artagnan was so completely bewildered that without taking any heed of what might become of Kitty he ran at full speed across half Paris, and

However brilliant had been the part played by Porthos in the duel, it had not made him forget the dinner of the procurator’s wife. On

D’Artagnan left the hotel instead of going up at once to Kitty’s chamber, as she endeavored to persuade him to do ­and that for two

The hour having come, they went with their four lackeys to a spot behind the Luxembourg given up to the feeding of goats.  Athos threw

That evening Milady gave orders that when M. d’Artagnan came as usual, he should be immediately admitted; but he did not come. The next day

D’Artagnan followed Milady without being perceived by her.  He saw her get into her carriage, and heard her order the coachman to drive to St.

The most preoccupied of the four friends was certainly d’Artagnan, although he, in his quality of Guardsman, would be much more easily equipped than Messieurs

D’Artagnan was astounded by the terrible confidence of Athos; yet many things appeared very obscure to him in this half revelation.  In the first place

“We have now to search for Athos,” said d’Artagnan to the vivacious Aramis, when he had informed him of all that had passed since their

D’Artagnan had said nothing to Porthos of his wound or of his procurator’s wife.  Our Bearnais was a prudent lad, however young he might be. 

On the day after these events had taken place, Athos not having reappeared, M. de Treville was informed by d’Artagnan and Porthos of the circumstance. 

The crowd was caused, not by the expectation of a man to be hanged, but by the contemplation of a man who was hanged. The

There was in all this, as may have been observed, one personage concerned, of whom, notwithstanding his precarious position, we have appeared to take but

Mme. Bonacieux and the duke entered the Louvre without difficulty.  Mme. Bonacieux was known to belong to the queen; the duke wore the uniform of the

His visit to M. de Treville being paid, the pensive d’Artagnan took the longest way homeward. On what was d’Artagnan thinking, that he strayed thus

The invention of the mousetrap does not date from our days; as soon as societies, in forming, had invented any kind of police, that police

As Athos and Porthos had foreseen, at the expiration of a half hour, d’Artagnan returned.  He had again missed his man, who had disappeared as

In the meantime, the forty pistoles of King Louis XIII, like all other things of this world, after having had a beginning had an end, and after

When d’Artagnan was out of the Louvre, and consulted his friends upon the use he had best make of his share of the forty pistoles, Athos

This affair made a great noise.  M. de Treville scolded his Musketeers in public, and congratulated them in private; but as no time was to

D’Artagnan, in a state of fury, crossed the antechamber at three bounds, and was darting toward the stairs, which he reckoned upon descending four at

M. de Treville was at the moment in rather ill-humor, nevertheless he saluted the young man politely, who bowed to the very ground; and he