The Three MusketeersJust arrived in Paris and looking for adventure, D'Artagnan finds more than he bargains for. Within hours he has offended three of the King's musketeers - and has to duel with all of them! Within days he's in love...and embroiled with spies, politicians, English noblemen, and being seduced by the most beautiful - and deadly - woman in France: Milady de Winter! Filled with intrigue, mystery, passion, comedy and deadly peril, "The Three Musketeers" is the original swashbuckling adventure! |
Contents
Translators Introduction | 9 |
PART ONE | 25 |
The Three Gifts of Monsieur dArtagnan the Elder | 27 |
Monsieur de Trevilles AnteRoom | 38 |
The Audience | 49 |
Athos Shoulder Porthos ShoulderBeit and Aramis Handkerchief | 61 |
The Kings Musketeers and the Cardinals Guards | 67 |
His Majesty King Louis XIII | 78 |
All Cats are Grey at Night | 412 |
Plans for Revenge | 420 |
Miladys Secret | 427 |
PART TWO | 435 |
How Athos Found His Equipment Without Bestirring Himself | 437 |
The Cardinal | 454 |
The Siege of La Rochette | 463 |
The Anjou Wine | 474 |
The Musketeers at Home | 99 |
A Court Intrigue | 109 |
DArtagnan takes Command | 116 |
A SeventeenthCentury MouseTrap | 125 |
The Plot Thickens | 136 |
George Villiers Duke of Buckingham | 154 |
Monsieur Bonacieux | 163 |
The Man of Meung | 172 |
Soldiers and Magistrates | 183 |
In which Seguler the Keeper of the Seals looks again for the Chapel Bell which in his youth he rang so furiously | 193 |
The Bonacieux at Home | 205 |
The Lover and the Husband | 220 |
The Plan of Campaign | 228 |
The Journey | 237 |
My Lady de Winter | 249 |
The Merlaison Ballet | 259 |
The Tryst | 267 |
The SimmerHouse | 278 |
Porthos Mistress | 289 |
Aramis Thesis | 308 |
Athos Wife | 325 |
The Return | 345 |
In Search of Equipment | 359 |
Milady | 368 |
English and French | 376 |
Lunch at the Lawyers | 384 |
Mistress and Maid | 393 |
How Aramis and Porthos Found their Equipment | 403 |
The Red Dovecote Inn | 482 |
The Advantage of Stove Pipes | 490 |
A Conjugal Scene | 498 |
The Bastion of St Gervais | 504 |
A Council of War | 511 |
A Family Affair | 529 |
Disaster | 543 |
Conversation Between Brother and Sister | 551 |
Officer | 559 |
First Day of Captivity | 569 |
Second Day of Captivity | 576 |
Third Day of Captivity | 583 |
Fourth Day of Captivity | 591 |
Fifth Day of Captivity | 599 |
Histrionics in the Grand Manner | 613 |
Escape | 619 |
What Happened at Portsmouth on 25 August 1628 | 628 |
In France | 638 |
The Carmelite Convent at Bethune | 644 |
The female and the Male | 658 |
A Drop of Water | 664 |
The Man in the Red Cloak | 680 |
The Trial | 686 |
The Execution | 694 |
A Messenger from the Cardinal | 699 |
Epilogue | 709 |
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Common terms and phrases
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