{"speaker": "M. d’Artagnan the elder", "text": "My son, this horse was born in the house of your father about thirteen years ago, and has remained in it ever since, which ought to make you love it. Never sell it; allow it to die tranquilly and honorably of old age, and if you make a campaign with it, take as much care of it as you would of an old servant. At court, provided you have ever the honor to go there, —an honor to which, remember, your ancient nobility gives you the right—sustain worthily your name of gentleman, which has been worthily borne by your ancestors for five hundred years, both for your own sake and the sake of those who belong to you. By the latter I mean your relatives and friends. Endure nothing from anyone except Monsieur the Cardinal and the king. It is by his courage, please observe, by his courage alone, that a gentleman can make his way nowadays. Whoever hesitates for a second perhaps allows the bait to escape which during that exact second fortune held out to him. You are young. You ought to be brave for two reasons: the first is that you are a Gascon, and the second is that you are my son. Never fear quarrels, but seek adventures. I have taught you how to handle a sword; you have thews of iron, a wrist of steel. Fight on all occasions. Fight the more for duels being forbidden, since consequently there is twice as much courage in fighting. I have nothing to give you, my son, but fifteen crowns, my horse, and the counsels you have just heard. Your mother will add to them a recipe for a certain balsam, which she had from a Bohemian and which has the miraculous virtue of curing all wounds that do not reach the heart. Take advantage of all, and live happily and long. I have but one word to add, and that is to propose an example to you—not mine, for I myself have never appeared at court, and have only taken part in religious wars as a volunteer; I speak of Monsieur de Tréville, who was formerly my neighbor, and who had the honor to be, as a child, the play-fellow of our king, Louis XIII., whom God preserve! Sometimes their play degenerated into battles, and in these battles the king was not always the stronger. The blows which he received increased greatly his esteem and friendship for Monsieur de Tréville. Afterward, Monsieur de Tréville fought with others: in his first journey to Paris, five times; from the death of the late king till the young one came of age, without reckoning wars and sieges, seven times; and from that date up to the present day, a hundred times, perhaps! So that in spite of edicts, ordinances, and decrees, there he is, captain of the Musketeers; that is to say, chief of a legion of Cæsars, whom the king holds in great esteem and whom the cardinal dreads—he who dreads nothing, as it is said. Still further, Monsieur de Tréville gains ten thousand crowns a year; he is therefore a great noble. He began as you begin. Go to him with this letter, and make him your model in order that you may do as he has done.”", "pos": 11322}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I say, sir, you sir, who are hiding yourself behind that shutter—yes, you, sir, tell me what you are laughing at, and we will laugh together!", "pos": 19468}
{"speaker": "the stranger", "text": "I was not speaking to you, sir.", "pos": 19984}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But I am speaking to you!", "pos": 20018}
{"speaker": "the stranger", "text": "This horse is decidedly, or rather has been in his youth, a buttercup. It is a color very well known in botany, but till the present time very rare among horses.", "pos": 20608}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "There are people who laugh at the horse that would not dare to laugh at the master,", "pos": 21008}
{"speaker": "the stranger", "text": "I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the expression of my countenance; but nevertheless I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.", "pos": 21144}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And I, will allow no man to laugh when it displeases me!", "pos": 21321}
{"speaker": "the stranger", "text": "Indeed, sir,", "pos": 21400}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "well, that is perfectly right!", "pos": 21460}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Turn, turn, Master Joker, lest I strike you behind!", "pos": 21823}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Strike me!", "pos": 21877}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why, my good fellow, you must be mad!", "pos": 21995}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This is annoying,", "pos": 22090}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What a godsend this would be for his Majesty, who is seeking everywhere for brave fellows to recruit for his Musketeers!", "pos": 22124}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A plague upon these Gascons! Replace him on his orange horse, and let him begone!", "pos": 23056}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Not before I have killed you, poltroon!", "pos": 23140}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Another gasconade!", "pos": 23330}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "By my honor, these Gascons are incorrigible! Keep up the dance, then, since he will have it so. When he is tired, he will perhaps tell us that he has had enough of it.", "pos": 23375}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, how is it with this madman?", "pos": 24346}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your Excellency is safe and sound?", "pos": 24512}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, yes! Perfectly safe and sound, my good host; and I wish to know what has become of our young man.", "pos": 24565}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He is better,", "pos": 24669}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "he fainted quite away.", "pos": 24700}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Indeed!", "pos": 24725}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But before he fainted, he collected all his strength to challenge you, and to defy you while challenging you.", "pos": 24755}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why, this fellow must be the devil in person!", "pos": 24867}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, no, your Excellency, he is not the devil,", "pos": 24935}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for during his fainting we rummaged his valise and found nothing but a clean shirt and eleven crowns—which however, did not prevent his saying, as he was fainting, that if such a thing had happened in Paris, you should have cause to repent of it at a later period.", "pos": 25026}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then,", "pos": 25293}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "he must be some prince in disguise.", "pos": 25327}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have told you this, good sir,", "pos": 25365}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "in order that you may be on your guard.", "pos": 25417}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Did he name no one in his passion?", "pos": 25459}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; he struck his pocket and said, ‘We shall see what Monsieur de Tréville will think of this insult offered to his protégé.’", "pos": 25496}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Monsieur de Tréville?", "pos": 25625}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "he put his hand upon his pocket while pronouncing the name of Monsieur de Tréville? Now, my dear host, while your young man was insensible, you did not fail, I am quite sure, to ascertain what that pocket contained. What was there in it?", "pos": 25688}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A letter addressed to Monsieur de Tréville, captain of the Musketeers.", "pos": 25928}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Indeed!", "pos": 26001}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Exactly as I have the honor to tell your Excellency.", "pos": 26011}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The devil!", "pos": 26357}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Can Tréville have set this Gascon upon me? He is very young; but a sword thrust is a sword thrust, whatever be the age of him who gives it, and a youth is less to be suspected than an older man,", "pos": 26402}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Host,", "pos": 26733}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "could you not contrive to get rid of this frantic boy for me? In conscience, I cannot kill him; and yet,", "pos": 26750}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "he annoys me. Where is he?", "pos": 26902}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In my wife’s chamber, on the first flight, where they are dressing his wounds.", "pos": 26931}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "His things and his bag are with him? Has he taken off his doublet?", "pos": 27012}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On the contrary, everything is in the kitchen. But if he annoys you, this young fool—", "pos": 27081}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To be sure he does. He causes a disturbance in your hostelry, which respectable people cannot put up with. Go; make out my bill and notify my servant.", "pos": 27169}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What, monsieur, will you leave us so soon?", "pos": 27322}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You know that very well, as I gave my order to saddle my horse. Have they not obeyed me?", "pos": 27367}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is done; as your Excellency may have observed, your horse is in the great gateway, ready saddled for your departure.", "pos": 27458}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is well; do as I have directed you, then.", "pos": 27580}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What the devil!", "pos": 27629}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Can he be afraid of this boy?", "pos": 27673}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is not necessary for Milady* to be seen by this fellow,", "pos": 27795}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She will soon pass; she is already late. I had better get on horseback, and go and meet her. I should like, however, to know what this letter addressed to Tréville contains.", "pos": 27880}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This insolent boy chastises others,", "pos": 30411}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and I hope that this time he whom he ought to chastise will not escape him as before.", "pos": 30459}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Will not escape him?", "pos": 30547}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No; before a woman you would dare not fly, I presume?", "pos": 30611}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Remember,", "pos": 30667}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "the least delay may ruin everything.", "pos": 30739}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right,", "pos": 30778}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "begone then, on your part, and I will depart as quickly on mine.", "pos": 30816}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Pay him, booby!", "pos": 31078}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Base coward! false gentleman!", "pos": 31280}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He is a coward, indeed,", "pos": 31656}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, a base coward,", "pos": 31889}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but she—she was very beautiful.", "pos": 31932}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What she?", "pos": 31966}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Milady,", "pos": 31997}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, it’s all one,", "pos": 32055}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have lost two customers, but this one remains, of whom I am pretty certain for some days to come. There will be eleven crowns gained.", "pos": 32090}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My letter of recommendation! my letter of recommendation! or, the holy blood, I will spit you all like ortolans!", "pos": 34109}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But, after all,", "pos": 34982}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "where is this letter?", "pos": 35041}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, where is this letter? In the first place, I warn you that that letter is for Monsieur de Tréville, and it must be found, or if it is not found, he will know how to find it.", "pos": 35065}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Does the letter contain anything valuable?", "pos": 35849}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Zounds! I think it does indeed! It contained my fortune!", "pos": 35959}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Bills upon Spain?", "pos": 36097}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Bills upon his Majesty’s private treasury,", "pos": 36143}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The devil!", "pos": 36386}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "it’s of no importance. The money is nothing; that letter was everything. I would rather have lost a thousand pistoles than have lost it.", "pos": 36508}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "That letter is not lost!", "pos": 36874}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What!", "pos": 36911}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "No, it has been stolen from you.", "pos": 36937}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Stolen? By whom?", "pos": 36972}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "By the gentleman who was here yesterday. He came down into the kitchen, where your doublet was. He remained there some time alone. I would lay a wager he has stolen it.", "pos": 36991}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Do you think so? Do you say, that you suspect that impertinent gentleman?", "pos": 37162}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "I tell you I am sure of it. When I informed him that your lordship was the protégé of Monsieur de Tréville, and that you even had a letter for that illustrious gentleman, he appeared to be very much disturbed, and asked me where that letter was, and immediately came down into the kitchen, where he knew your doublet was.", "pos": 37572}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Then that’s my thief. I will complain to Monsieur de Tréville, and Monsieur de Tréville will complain to the king.", "pos": 37918}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Certes, these fellows will all either be imprisoned or hanged, and I, no doubt, with them; for from the moment I have either listened to or heard them, I shall be held as an accomplice. What would my good father say, who so strongly pointed out to me the respect due to the cardinal, if he knew I was in the society of such pagans?", "pos": 53354}
{"speaker": "Musketeer", "text": "What would you have? This fashion is coming in. It is a folly, I admit, but still it is the fashion. Besides, one must lay out one’s inheritance somehow.", "pos": 55636}
{"speaker": "companion", "text": "Ah, Porthos! don’t try to make us believe you obtained that baldric by paternal generosity. It was given to you by that veiled lady I met you with the other Sunday, near the gate St. Honoré.", "pos": 55814}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "No, upon honor and by the faith of a gentleman, I bought it with the contents of my own purse,", "pos": 56038}
{"speaker": "Musketeer", "text": "Yes; about in the same manner, that I bought this new purse with what my mistress put into the old one.", "pos": 56189}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "It’s true, though, and the proof is that I paid twelve pistoles for it. Is it not true, Aramis?", "pos": 56321}
{"speaker": "Musketeer", "text": "What do you think of the story Chalais’s esquire relates?", "pos": 57550}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "And what does he say?", "pos": 57719}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He relates that he met at Brussels Rochefort, the âme damnée of the cardinal disguised as a Capuchin, and that this cursed Rochefort, thanks to his disguise, had tricked Monsieur de Laigues, like a ninny as he is.", "pos": 57785}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "A ninny, indeed! but is the matter certain?", "pos": 58001}
{"speaker": "Musketeer", "text": "I had it from Aramis,", "pos": 58063}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Indeed? Why, you knew it, Porthos. I told you of it yesterday. Let us say no more about it.", "pos": 58110}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Say no more about it? That’s your opinion! Say no more about it! Peste! You come to your conclusions quickly. What! The cardinal sets a spy upon a gentleman, has his letters stolen from him by means of a traitor, a brigand, a rascal—has, with the help of this spy and thanks to this correspondence, Chalais’s throat cut, under the stupid pretext that he wanted to kill the king and marry Monsieur to the queen! Nobody knew a word of this enigma. You unraveled it yesterday to the great satisfaction of all; and while we are still gaping with wonder at the news, you come and tell us today, ‘Let us say no more about it.’", "pos": 58221}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Well, then, let us talk about it, since you desire it,", "pos": 58863}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "This Rochefort, if I were the esquire of poor Chalais, should pass a minute or two very uncomfortably with me.", "pos": 58947}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "And you—you would pass rather a sad quarter-hour with the Red Duke,", "pos": 59077}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Oh, the Red Duke! Bravo! Bravo! The Red Duke! The Red Duke is capital. I’ll circulate that saying, be assured, my dear fellow. Who says this Aramis is not a wit? What a misfortune it is you did not follow your first vocation; what a delicious abbé you would have made!", "pos": 59163}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Oh, it’s only a temporary postponement. I shall be one someday. You very well know, Porthos, that I continue to study theology for that purpose.", "pos": 59492}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "He will be one, as he says, he will be one, sooner or later.", "pos": 59657}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Sooner,", "pos": 59737}
{"speaker": "Musketeer", "text": "He only waits for one thing to determine him to resume his cassock, which hangs behind his uniform,", "pos": 59760}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "What is he waiting for? Only till the queen has given an heir to the crown of France. No jesting upon that subject, gentlemen, thank God the queen is still of an age to give one!", "pos": 59886}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "They say that Monsieur de Buckingham is in France,", "pos": 60102}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Aramis, my good friend, this time you are wrong. Your wit is always leading you beyond bounds; if Monsieur de Tréville heard you, you would repent of speaking thus.", "pos": 60279}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Are you going to give me a lesson, Porthos?", "pos": 60469}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "My dear fellow, be a Musketeer or an abbé. Be one or the other, but not both. You know what Athos told you the other day; you eat at everybody’s mess. Ah, don’t be angry, I beg of you, that would be useless; you know what is agreed upon between you, Athos and me. You go to Madame d’Aguillon’s, and you pay your court to her; you go to Madame de Bois-Tracy’s, the cousin of Madame de Chevreuse, and you pass for being far advanced in the good graces of that lady. Oh, good Lord! Don’t trouble yourself to reveal your good luck; no one asks for your secret—all the world knows your discretion. But since you possess that virtue, why the devil don’t you make use of it with respect to her Majesty? Let whoever likes talk of the king and the cardinal, and how he likes; but the queen is sacred, and if anyone speaks of her, let it be respectfully.", "pos": 60588}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Porthos, you are as vain as Narcissus; I plainly tell you so. You know I hate moralizing, except when it is done by Athos. As to you, good sir, you wear too magnificent a baldric to be strong on that head. I will be an abbé if it suits me. In the meanwhile I am a Musketeer; in that quality I say what I please, and at this moment it pleases me to say that you weary me.", "pos": 61454}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Aramis!", "pos": 61845}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Porthos!", "pos": 61855}
{"speaker": "group", "text": "Gentlemen! Gentlemen!", "pos": 61866}
{"speaker": "servant", "text": "Monsieur de Tréville awaits Monsieur d’Artagnan,", "pos": 61919}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Athos! Porthos! Aramis!", "pos": 63029}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Do you know what the king said to me, and that no longer ago than yesterday evening—do you know, gentlemen?", "pos": 64119}
{"speaker": "Musketeers", "text": "No, no, sir, we do not.", "pos": 64241}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "But I hope that you will do us the honor to tell us,", "pos": 64323}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "He told me that he should henceforth recruit his Musketeers from among the Guards of Monsieur the Cardinal.", "pos": 64445}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "The Guards of the cardinal! And why so?", "pos": 64555}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Because he plainly perceives that his piquette* stands in need of being enlivened by a mixture of good wine. Yes, yes, and his majesty was right; for, upon my honor, it is true that the Musketeers make but a miserable figure at court. The cardinal related yesterday while playing with the king, with an air of condolence very displeasing to me, that the day before yesterday those damned Musketeers, those daredevils—he dwelt upon those words with an ironical tone still more displeasing to me—those braggarts, added he, glancing at me with his tiger-cat’s eye, had made a riot in the Rue Férou in a cabaret, and that a party of his Guards (I thought he was going to laugh in my face) had been forced to arrest the rioters! Morbleu! You must know something about it. Arrest Musketeers! You were among them—you were! Don’t deny it; you were recognized, and the cardinal named you. But it’s all my fault; yes, it’s all my fault, because it is myself who selects my men. You, Aramis, why the devil did you ask me for a uniform when you would have been so much better in a cassock? And you, Porthos, do you only wear such a fine golden baldric to suspend a sword of straw from it? And Athos—I don’t see Athos. Where is he?", "pos": 64620}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ill—", "pos": 66105}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Very ill, say you? And of what malady?", "pos": 66112}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "It is feared that it may be the smallpox, sir, and what is serious is that it will certainly spoil his face.", "pos": 66153}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "The smallpox! That’s a great story to tell me, Porthos! Sick of the smallpox at his age! No, no; but wounded without doubt, killed, perhaps. Ah, if I knew! S’blood! Messieurs Musketeers, I will not have this haunting of bad places, this quarreling in the streets, this swordplay at the crossways; and above all, I will not have occasion given for the cardinal’s Guards, who are brave, quiet, skillful men who never put themselves in a position to be arrested, and who, besides, never allow themselves to be arrested, to laugh at you! I am sure of it—they would prefer dying on the spot to being arrested or taking back a step. To save yourselves, to scamper away, to flee—that is good for the king’s Musketeers!", "pos": 66332}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Well, my Captain, the truth is that we were six against six. But we were not captured by fair means; and before we had time to draw our swords, two of our party were dead, and Athos, grievously wounded, was very little better. For you know Athos. Well, Captain, he endeavored twice to get up, and fell again twice. And we did not surrender—no! They dragged us away by force. On the way we escaped. As for Athos, they believed him to be dead, and left him very quiet on the field of battle, not thinking it worth the trouble to carry him away. That’s the whole story. What the devil, Captain, one cannot win all one’s battles! The great Pompey lost that of Pharsalia; and Francis the First, who was, as I have heard say, as good as other folks, nevertheless lost the Battle of Pavia.", "pos": 68846}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "And I have the honor of assuring you that I killed one of them with his own sword, for mine was broken at the first parry. Killed him, or poniarded him, sir, as is most agreeable to you.", "pos": 69669}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "I did not know that. The cardinal exaggerated, as I perceive.", "pos": 69873}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "But pray, sir, do not say that Athos is wounded. He would be in despair if that should come to the ears of the king; and as the wound is very serious, seeing that after crossing the shoulder it penetrates into the chest, it is to be feared—", "pos": 69992}
{"speaker": "Musketeers", "text": "Athos!", "pos": 70443}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Athos!", "pos": 70478}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You have sent for me, sir, you have sent for me, as my comrades inform me, and I have hastened to receive your orders. I am here; what do you want with me?", "pos": 70520}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "I was about to say to these gentlemen, that I forbid my Musketeers to expose their lives needlessly; for brave men are very dear to the king, and the king knows that his Musketeers are the bravest on the earth. Your hand, Athos!", "pos": 70970}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "A surgeon! mine! The king’s! The best! A surgeon! Or, s’blood, my brave Athos will die!", "pos": 72085}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Pardon me, pardon me my dear compatriot, but I had wholly forgotten you. But what help is there for it! A captain is nothing but a father of a family, charged with even a greater responsibility than the father of an ordinary family. Soldiers are big children; but as I maintain that the orders of the king, and more particularly the orders of the cardinal, should be executed— I respected your father very much. What can I do for the son? Tell me quickly; my time is not my own.", "pos": 74123}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Monsieur, on quitting Tarbes and coming hither, it was my intention to request of you, in remembrance of the friendship which you have not forgotten, the uniform of a Musketeer; but after all that I have seen during the last two hours, I comprehend that such a favor is enormous, and tremble lest I should not merit it.", "pos": 74808}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "It is indeed a favor, young man, but it may not be so far beyond your hopes as you believe, or rather as you appear to believe. But his majesty’s decision is always necessary; and I inform you with regret that no one becomes a Musketeer without the preliminary ordeal of several campaigns, certain brilliant actions, or a service of two years in some other regiment less favored than ours. on account of my old companion, your father, as I have said, I will do something for you, young man. Our recruits from Béarn are not generally very rich, and I have no reason to think matters have much changed in this respect since I left the province. I dare say you have not brought too large a stock of money with you? that’s very well, young man, that’s all very well. I know these airs; I myself came to Paris with four crowns in my purse, and would have fought with anyone who dared to tell me I was not in a condition to purchase the Louvre. I will write a letter today to the Director of the Royal Academy, and tomorrow he will admit you without any expense to yourself. Do not refuse this little service. Our best-born and richest gentlemen sometimes solicit it without being able to obtain it. You will learn horsemanship, swordsmanship in all its branches, and dancing. You will make some desirable acquaintances; and from time to time you can call upon me, just to tell me how you are getting on, and to say whether I can be of further service to you.", "pos": 75149}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Alas, sir. I cannot but perceive how sadly I miss the letter of introduction which my father gave me to present to you.", "pos": 77551}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "I certainly am surprised, that you should undertake so long a journey without that necessary passport, the sole resource of us poor Béarnese.", "pos": 77684}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I had one, sir, and, thank God, such as I could wish, but it was perfidiously stolen from me.", "pos": 77854}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "This is all very strange, you mentioned my name, then, aloud?", "pos": 78142}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, sir, I certainly committed that imprudence; but why should I have done otherwise? A name like yours must be as a buckler to me on my way. Judge if I should not put myself under its protection.", "pos": 78256}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Tell me, had not this gentlemen a slight scar on his cheek? Was he not a fine-looking man? Of lofty stature. Of pale complexion and brown hair?", "pos": 78703}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, yes, that is he; how is it, sir, that you are acquainted with this man? If I ever find him again—and I will find him, I swear, were it in hell!", "pos": 78946}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "He was waiting for a woman,", "pos": 79097}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "He departed immediately after having conversed for a minute with her whom he awaited.", "pos": 79147}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "You know not the subject of their conversation?", "pos": 79235}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "He gave her a box, told her not to open it except in London.", "pos": 79285}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Was this woman English?", "pos": 79348}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "He called her Milady.", "pos": 79374}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "It is he; it must be he! Beware, young man! If you see him coming on one side of the street, pass by on the other. Do not cast yourself against such a rock; he would break you like glass.", "pos": 79398}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That will not prevent me, if ever I find him.", "pos": 79912}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "seek him not—if I have a right to advise you.", "pos": 80016}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "My friend. I wish, as the son of an ancient friend—for I consider this story of the lost letter perfectly true—I wish, I say, in order to repair the coldness you may have remarked in my reception of you, to discover to you the secrets of our policy. The king and the cardinal are the best of friends; their apparent bickerings are only feints to deceive fools. I am not willing that a compatriot, a handsome cavalier, a brave youth, quite fit to make his way, should become the dupe of all these artifices and fall into the snare after the example of so many others who have been ruined by it. Be assured that I am devoted to both these all-powerful masters, and that my earnest endeavors have no other aim than the service of the king, and also the cardinal—one of the most illustrious geniuses that France has ever produced. Now, young man, regulate your conduct accordingly; and if you entertain, whether from your family, your relations, or even from your instincts, any of these enmities which we see constantly breaking out against the cardinal, bid me adieu and let us separate. I will aid you in many ways, but without attaching you to my person. I hope that my frankness at least will make you my friend; for you are the only young man to whom I have hitherto spoken as I have done to you. If the cardinal has set this young fox upon me, he will certainly not have failed—he, who knows how bitterly I execrate him—to tell his spy that the best means of making his court to me is to rail at him. Therefore, in spite of all my protestations, if it be as I suspect, my cunning gossip will assure me that he holds his Eminence in horror.", "pos": 80998}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I came to Paris with exactly such intentions. My father advised me to stoop to nobody but the king, the cardinal, and yourself—whom he considered the first three personages in France. I have the greatest veneration for the cardinal, and the most profound respect for his actions. So much the better for me, sir, if you speak to me, as you say, with frankness—for then you will do me the honor to esteem the resemblance of our opinions; but if you have entertained any doubt, as naturally you may, I feel that I am ruining myself by speaking the truth. But I still trust you will not esteem me the less for it, and that is my object beyond all others.", "pos": 82773}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "You are an honest youth; but at the present moment I can only do for you that which I just now offered. My hôtel will be always open to you. Hereafter, being able to ask for me at all hours, and consequently to take advantage of all opportunities, you will probably obtain that which you desire.", "pos": 83883}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "that you will wait until I have proved myself worthy of it. Well, be assured, you shall not wait long.", "pos": 84219}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "But wait a minute. I promised you a letter for the director of the Academy. Are you too proud to accept it, young gentleman?", "pos": 84456}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No. No, sir, and I will guard it so carefully that I will be sworn it shall arrive at its address, and woe be to him who shall attempt to take it from me!", "pos": 84620}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "S’blood, he shall not escape me this time! And who?", "pos": 85603}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "He, my thief! Ah, the traitor!", "pos": 85681}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Excuse me, but I am in a hurry. You are in a hurry? Under that pretense you run against me! You say, ‘Excuse me,’ and you believe that is sufficient? Not at all, my young man. Do you fancy because you have heard Monsieur de Tréville speak to us a little cavalierly today that other people are to treat us as he speaks to us? Undeceive yourself, comrade, you are not Monsieur de Tréville.", "pos": 86366}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My faith! I did not do it intentionally, and not doing it intentionally, I said ‘Excuse me.’ It appears to me that this is quite enough. I repeat to you, however, and this time on my word of honor—I think perhaps too often—that I am in haste, great haste. Leave your hold, then, I beg of you, and let me go where my business calls me.", "pos": 86967}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "you are not polite; it is easy to perceive that you come from a distance.", "pos": 87470}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Morbleu, monsieur! however far I may come, it is not you who can give me a lesson in good manners, I warn you.", "pos": 87648}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Perhaps,", "pos": 87772}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah! If I were not in such haste, and if I were not running after someone,", "pos": 87795}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Monsieur Man-in-a-hurry, you can find me without running—me, you understand?", "pos": 87888}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And where, I pray you?", "pos": 87967}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Near the Carmes-Deschaux.", "pos": 87992}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "At what hour?", "pos": 88020}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "About noon.", "pos": 88036}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "About noon? That will do; I will be there.", "pos": 88050}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Endeavor not to make me wait; for at quarter past twelve I will cut off your ears as you run.", "pos": 88095}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Good! I will be there ten minutes before twelve.", "pos": 88191}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "that is to say,", "pos": 89454}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Bless me! you must be mad to run against people in this manner.", "pos": 89859}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Excuse me, but I am in such haste—I was running after someone and—", "pos": 90037}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "And do you always forget your eyes when you run?", "pos": 90170}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "and thanks to my eyes, I can see what other people cannot see.", "pos": 90270}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Monsieur,", "pos": 90418}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "you stand a chance of getting chastised if you rub Musketeers in this fashion.", "pos": 90439}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Chastised, Monsieur! the expression is strong.", "pos": 90520}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "It is one that becomes a man accustomed to look his enemies in the face.", "pos": 90588}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah, pardieu! I know full well that you don’t turn your back to yours.", "pos": 90663}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Presently, presently, when you haven’t your cloak on.", "pos": 90877}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "At one o’clock, then, behind the Luxembourg. Very well, at one o’clock, then,", "pos": 90953}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What a madcap I was, and what a stupid fellow I am! That brave and unfortunate Athos was wounded on that very shoulder against which I must run head foremost, like a ram. The only thing that astonishes me is that he did not strike me dead at once. He had good cause to do so; the pain I gave him must have been atrocious. As to Porthos—oh, as to Porthos, faith, that’s a droll affair! As to Porthos, that is certainly droll; but I am not the less a giddy fool. Are people to be run against without warning? No! And have I any right to go and peep under their cloaks to see what is not there? He would have pardoned me, he would certainly have pardoned me, if I had not said anything to him about that cursed baldric—in ambiguous words, it is true, but rather drolly ambiguous. Ah, cursed Gascon that I am, I get from one hobble into another. Friend D’Artagnan, if you escape, of which there is not much chance, I would advise you to practice perfect politeness for the future. You must henceforth be admired and quoted as a model of it. To be obliging and polite does not necessarily make a man a coward. Look at Aramis, now; Aramis is mildness and grace personified. Well, did anybody ever dream of calling Aramis a coward? No, certainly not, and from this moment I will endeavor to model myself after him. Ah! That’s strange! Here he is!", "pos": 92562}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I believe, monsieur, that this is a handkerchief you would be sorry to lose?", "pos": 95639}
{"speaker": "Guard", "text": "Ah, ah! will you persist in saying, most discreet Aramis, that you are not on good terms with Madame de Bois-Tracy, when that gracious lady has the kindness to lend you one of her handkerchiefs?", "pos": 95920}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "You are deceived, gentlemen, this handkerchief is not mine, and I cannot fancy why Monsieur has taken it into his head to offer it to me rather than to one of you; and as a proof of what I say, here is mine in my pocket.", "pos": 96276}
{"speaker": "Guard", "text": "If it were as you pretend it is. I should be forced, my dear Aramis, to reclaim it myself; for, as you very well know, Bois-Tracy is an intimate friend of mine, and I cannot allow the property of his wife to be sported as a trophy.", "pos": 96973}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "You make the demand badly, and while acknowledging the justice of your reclamation, I refuse it on account of the form.", "pos": 97218}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The fact is. I did not see the handkerchief fall from the pocket of Monsieur Aramis. He had his foot upon it, that is all; and I thought from having his foot upon it the handkerchief was his.", "pos": 97358}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "And you were deceived, my dear sir. Besides. I have reflected, my dear intimate of Bois-Tracy, that I am not less tenderly his friend than you can possibly be; so that decidedly this handkerchief is as likely to have fallen from your pocket as mine.", "pos": 97584}
{"speaker": "His Majesty's Guardsman", "text": "No, upon my honor!", "pos": 98012}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "You are about to swear upon your honor and I upon my word, and then it will be pretty evident that one of us will have lied. Now, here, Montaran, we will do better than that—let each take a half.", "pos": 98064}
{"speaker": "Guard", "text": "Of the handkerchief?", "pos": 98262}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 98285}
{"speaker": "Guardsmen", "text": "Perfectly just, the judgment of King Solomon! Aramis, you certainly are full of wisdom!", "pos": 98292}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Now is my time to make peace with this gallant man. Monsieur, you will excuse me, I hope.", "pos": 98688}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Ah, monsieur, permit me to observe to you that you have not acted in this affair as a gallant man ought.", "pos": 99009}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What, monsieur! and do you suppose—", "pos": 99138}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I suppose, monsieur, that you are not a fool, and that you knew very well, although coming from Gascony, that people do not tread upon handkerchiefs without a reason. What the devil! Paris is not paved with cambric!", "pos": 99196}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Monsieur, you act wrongly in endeavoring to mortify me. I am from Gascony, it is true; and since you know it, there is no occasion to tell you that Gascons are not very patient, so that when they have begged to be excused once, were it even for a folly, they are convinced that they have done already at least as much again as they ought to have done.", "pos": 99414}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Monsieur, what I say to you about the matter, is not for the sake of seeking a quarrel. Thank God, I am not a bravo! And being a Musketeer but for a time, I only fight when I am forced to do so, and always with great repugnance; but this time the affair is serious, for here is a lady compromised by you.", "pos": 99883}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "By us, you mean!", "pos": 100205}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Why did you so maladroitly restore me the handkerchief?", "pos": 100242}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Why did you so awkwardly let it fall?", "pos": 100300}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I have said, monsieur, and I repeat, that the handkerchief did not fall from my pocket.", "pos": 100340}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And thereby you have lied twice, monsieur, for I saw it fall.", "pos": 100430}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Ah, you take it with that tone, do you, Master Gascon? Well, I will teach you how to behave yourself.", "pos": 100494}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And I will send you back to your Mass book, Master Abbé. Draw, if you please, and instantly—", "pos": 100598}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Not so, if you please, my good friend—not here, at least. Do you not perceive that we are opposite the Hôtel d’Arguillon, which is full of the cardinal’s creatures? How do I know that this is not his Eminence who has honored you with the commission to procure my head? Now, I entertain a ridiculous partiality for my head, it seems to suit my shoulders so correctly. I wish to kill you, be at rest as to that, but to kill you quietly in a snug, remote place, where you will not be able to boast of your death to anybody.", "pos": 100693}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I agree, monsieur; but do not be too confident. Take your handkerchief; whether it belongs to you or another, you may perhaps stand in need of it.", "pos": 101216}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Monsieur is a Gascon? Yes. Monsieur does not postpone an interview through prudence? Prudence, monsieur, is a virtue sufficiently useless to Musketeers, I know, but indispensable to churchmen; and as I am only a Musketeer provisionally, I hold it good to be prudent. At two o’clock I shall have the honor of expecting you at the hôtel of Monsieur de Tréville. There I will indicate to you the best place and time.", "pos": 101365}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Monsieur. I have engaged two of my friends as seconds; but these two friends are not yet come, at which I am astonished, as it is not at all their custom.", "pos": 104974}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I have no seconds on my part, monsieur, for having only arrived yesterday in Paris, I as yet know no one but Monsieur de Tréville, to whom I was recommended by my father, who has the honor to be, in some degree, one of his friends.", "pos": 105145}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You know no one but Monsieur de Tréville?", "pos": 105430}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, monsieur, I know only him.", "pos": 105484}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, but then, if I kill you, I shall have the air of a boy-slayer.", "pos": 105518}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Not too much so, since you do me the honor to draw a sword with me while suffering from a wound which is very inconvenient.", "pos": 105634}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Very inconvenient, upon my word; and you hurt me devilishly, I can tell you. But I will take the left hand—it is my custom in such circumstances. Do not fancy that I do you a favor; I use either hand easily. And it will be even a disadvantage to you; a left-handed man is very troublesome to people who are not prepared for it. I regret I did not inform you sooner of this circumstance.", "pos": 105828}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You have truly, monsieur, a courtesy, for which, I assure you, I am very grateful.", "pos": 106217}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "let us talk of something else, if you please. Ah, s’blood, how you have hurt me! My shoulder quite burns.", "pos": 106394}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "If you would permit me—", "pos": 106502}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "What, monsieur?", "pos": 106560}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I have a miraculous balsam for wounds—a balsam given to me by my mother and of which I have made a trial upon myself.", "pos": 106578}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well?", "pos": 106698}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, I am sure that in less than three days this balsam would cure you; and at the end of three days, when you would be cured—well, sir, it would still do me a great honor to be your man.", "pos": 106706}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Pardieu, monsieur! that’s a proposition that pleases me; not that I can accept it, but a league off it savors of the gentleman. Thus spoke and acted the gallant knights of the time of Charlemagne, in whom every cavalier ought to seek his model. Unfortunately, we do not live in the times of the great emperor, we live in the times of the cardinal; and three days hence, however well the secret might be guarded, it would be known, I say, that we were to fight, and our combat would be prevented. I think these fellows will never come.", "pos": 107027}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "If you are in haste, monsieur, and if it be your will to dispatch me at once, do not inconvenience yourself, I pray you.", "pos": 107578}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "There is another word which pleases me. That did not come from a man without a heart. Monsieur, I love men of your kidney; and I foresee plainly that if we don’t kill each other, I shall hereafter have much pleasure in your conversation. We will wait for these gentlemen, so please you; I have plenty of time, and it will be more correct. Ah, here is one of them, I believe.", "pos": 107831}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What! is your first witness Monsieur Porthos?", "pos": 108330}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes, that disturbs you?", "pos": 108398}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "By no means.", "pos": 108424}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "And here is the second.", "pos": 108439}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What! your second witness is Monsieur Aramis?", "pos": 108543}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Doubtless! Are you not aware that we are never seen one without the others, and that we are called among the Musketeers and the Guards, at court and in the city, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, or the Three Inseparables? And yet, as you come from Dax or Pau—", "pos": 108652}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "From Tarbes,", "pos": 108909}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "It is probable you are ignorant of this little fact,", "pos": 108941}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My faith! you are well named, gentlemen; and my adventure, if it should make any noise, will prove at least that your union is not founded upon contrasts.", "pos": 109008}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ah, ah! what does this mean?", "pos": 109392}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "This is the gentleman I am going to fight with,", "pos": 109434}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Why, it is with him I am also going to fight,", "pos": 109573}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But not before one o’clock,", "pos": 109635}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "And I also am to fight with this gentleman,", "pos": 109685}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But not until two o’clock,", "pos": 109779}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "But what are you going to fight about, Athos?", "pos": 109849}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Faith! I don’t very well know. He hurt my shoulder. And you, Porthos?", "pos": 109911}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Faith! I am going to fight—because I am going to fight,", "pos": 109983}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "We had a short discussion upon dress.", "pos": 110190}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "And you, Aramis?", "pos": 110230}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Oh, ours is a theological quarrel,", "pos": 110262}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Indeed?", "pos": 110442}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes; a passage of St. Augustine, upon which we could not agree,", "pos": 110464}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Decidedly, this is a clever fellow,", "pos": 110547}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And now you are assembled, gentlemen, permit me to offer you my apologies. You do not understand me, gentlemen. I asked to be excused in case I should not be able to discharge my debt to all three; for Monsieur Athos has the right to kill me first, which must much diminish the face-value of your bill, Monsieur Porthos, and render yours almost null, Monsieur Aramis. And now, gentlemen, I repeat, excuse me, but on that account only, and—on guard!", "pos": 110601}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "It is very hot, and yet I cannot take off my doublet; for I just now felt my wound begin to bleed again, and I should not like to annoy Monsieur with the sight of blood which he has not drawn from me himself.", "pos": 111769}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That is true, Monsieur, and whether drawn by myself or another, I assure you I shall always view with regret the blood of so brave a gentleman. I will therefore fight in my doublet, like yourself.", "pos": 112025}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Come, come, enough of such compliments! Remember, we are waiting for our turns.", "pos": 112246}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Speak for yourself when you are inclined to utter such incongruities. For my part, I think what they say is very well said, and quite worthy of two gentlemen.", "pos": 112345}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "When you please, monsieur,", "pos": 112528}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I waited your orders,", "pos": 112595}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "The cardinal’s Guards! Sheathe your swords, gentlemen, sheathe your swords!", "pos": 112802}
{"speaker": "Jussac", "text": "Halloo, Musketeers? Fighting here, are you? And the edicts? What is become of them?", "pos": 113128}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You are very generous, gentlemen of the Guards. If we were to see you fighting, I can assure you that we would make no effort to prevent you. Leave us alone, then, and you will enjoy a little amusement without cost to yourselves.", "pos": 113214}
{"speaker": "Jussac", "text": "Gentlemen, it is with great regret that I pronounce the thing impossible. Duty before everything. Sheathe, then, if you please, and follow us.", "pos": 113535}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Monsieur, it would afford us great pleasure to obey your polite invitation if it depended upon ourselves; but unfortunately the thing is impossible—Monsieur de Tréville has forbidden it. Pass on your way, then; it is the best thing to do.", "pos": 113695}
{"speaker": "Jussac", "text": "We will charge upon you, then,", "pos": 114003}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "There are five of them, and we are but three; we shall be beaten again, and must die on the spot, for, on my part, I declare I will never appear again before the captain as a conquered man.", "pos": 114063}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Gentlemen, allow me to correct your words, if you please. You said you were but three, but it appears to me we are four.", "pos": 114908}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "But you are not one of us,", "pos": 115042}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That’s true. I have not the uniform, but I have the spirit. My heart is that of a Musketeer; I feel it, monsieur, and that impels me on.", "pos": 115085}
{"speaker": "Jussac", "text": "Withdraw, young man. You may retire; we consent to that. Save your skin; begone quickly.", "pos": 115246}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Decidedly, you are a brave fellow,", "pos": 115482}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Well, we must do something.", "pos": 115610}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Monsieur is full of generosity. We should only be three, one of whom is wounded, with the addition of a boy, and yet it will not be the less said we were four men.", "pos": 115666}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Yes, but to yield!", "pos": 115947}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That is difficult,", "pos": 115982}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Try me, gentlemen, and I swear to you by my honor that I will not go hence if we are conquered.", "pos": 116062}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "What is your name, my brave fellow?", "pos": 116171}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "D’Artagnan, monsieur.", "pos": 116221}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, then, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D’Artagnan, forward!", "pos": 116245}
{"speaker": "Jussac", "text": "Come, gentlemen, have you decided?", "pos": 116321}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "It is done, gentlemen.", "pos": 116391}
{"speaker": "Jussac", "text": "And what is your choice?", "pos": 116428}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "We are about to have the honor of charging you,", "pos": 116469}
{"speaker": "Jussac", "text": "Ah! You resist, do you? S’blood; does that astonish you?", "pos": 116603}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "To me, Monsieur Guardsman; I will slay you!", "pos": 119159}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "S’blood! do not kill him, young man, I beg of you. I have an old affair to settle with him when I am cured and sound again. Disarm him only—make sure of his sword. That’s it! Very well done!", "pos": 119306}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Here,", "pos": 121284}
{"speaker": "Bicarat", "text": "here will Bicarat die; for I only am left, and they seek my life. Ah, if you command me, that’s another thing. As you are my commander, it is my duty to obey.", "pos": 121334}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "If I am not yet a Musketeer, at least I have entered upon my apprenticeship, haven’t I?", "pos": 122535}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Come here, Monsieur Captain, come here, that I may growl at you. Do you know that his Eminence has been making fresh complaints against your Musketeers, and that with so much emotion, that this evening his Eminence is indisposed? Ah, these Musketeers of yours are very devils—fellows to be hanged.", "pos": 123331}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "No, sire, on the contrary, they are good creatures, as meek as lambs, and have but one desire, I’ll be their warranty. And that is that their swords may never leave their scabbards but in your majesty’s service. But what are they to do? The Guards of Monsieur the Cardinal are forever seeking quarrels with them, and for the honor of the corps even, the poor young men are obliged to defend themselves.", "pos": 123642}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Listen to Monsieur de Tréville, listen to him! Would not one say he was speaking of a religious community? In truth, my dear Captain, I have a great mind to take away your commission and give it to Mademoiselle de Chemerault, to whom I promised an abbey. But don’t fancy that I am going to take you on your bare word. I am called Louis the Just, Monsieur de Tréville, and by and by, by and by we will see.", "pos": 124116}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Ah, sire; it is because I confide in that justice that I shall wait patiently and quietly the good pleasure of your Majesty.", "pos": 124541}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Wait, then, monsieur, wait. I will not detain you long. La Vieuville, take my place; I must speak to Monsieur de Tréville on an affair of importance. Ah, I had eighty louis before me; put down the same sum, so that they who have lost may have nothing to complain of. Justice before everything. Well, monsieur, you say it is his Eminence’s Guards who have sought a quarrel with your Musketeers?", "pos": 124668}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Yes, sire, as they always do.", "pos": 125556}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "And how did the thing happen? Let us see, for you know, my dear Captain, a judge must hear both sides.", "pos": 125588}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Good Lord! In the most simple and natural manner possible. Three of my best soldiers, whom your Majesty knows by name, and whose devotedness you have more than once appreciated, and who have, I dare affirm to the king, his service much at heart—three of my best soldiers, I say, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, had made a party of pleasure with a young fellow from Gascony, whom I had introduced to them the same morning. The party was to take place at St. Germain, I believe, and they had appointed to meet at the Carmes-Deschaux, when they were disturbed by de Jussac, Cahusac, Bicarat, and two other Guardsmen, who certainly did not go there in such a numerous company without some ill intention against the edicts.", "pos": 125693}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Ah, ah! You incline me to think so. There is no doubt they went thither to fight themselves.", "pos": 126410}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "I do not accuse them, sire; but I leave your Majesty to judge what five armed men could possibly be going to do in such a deserted place as the neighborhood of the Convent des Carmes.", "pos": 126522}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Yes, you are right, Tréville, you are right!", "pos": 126708}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Then, upon seeing my Musketeers they changed their minds, and forgot their private hatred for partisan hatred; for your Majesty cannot be ignorant that the Musketeers, who belong to the king and nobody but the king, are the natural enemies of the Guardsmen, who belong to the cardinal.", "pos": 126754}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Yes, Tréville, yes, and it is very sad, believe me, to see thus two parties in France, two heads to royalty. But all this will come to an end, Tréville, will come to an end. You say, then, that the Guardsmen sought a quarrel with the Musketeers?", "pos": 127042}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "I say that it is probable that things have fallen out so, but I will not swear to it, sire. You know how difficult it is to discover the truth; and unless a man be endowed with that admirable instinct which causes Louis XIII. to be named the Just—", "pos": 127329}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "You are right, Tréville; but they were not alone, your Musketeers. They had a youth with them?", "pos": 127579}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Yes, sire, and one wounded man; so that three of the king’s Musketeers—one of whom was wounded—and a youth not only maintained their ground against five of the most terrible of the cardinal’s Guardsmen, but absolutely brought four of them to earth.", "pos": 127676}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Why, this is a victory! a complete victory!", "pos": 127927}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Yes, sire; as complete as that of the Bridge of Ce.", "pos": 128004}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Four men, one of them wounded, and a youth, say you?", "pos": 128058}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "One hardly a young man; but who, however, behaved himself so admirably on this occasion that I will take the liberty of recommending him to your Majesty.", "pos": 128113}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "How does he call himself?", "pos": 128269}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "D’Artagnan, sire; he is the son of one of my oldest friends—the son of a man who served under the king your father, of glorious memory, in the civil war.", "pos": 128297}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "And you say this young man behaved himself well? Tell me how, Tréville—you know how I delight in accounts of war and fighting.", "pos": 128453}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Sire, as I told you, Monsieur d’Artagnan is little more than a boy; and as he has not the honor of being a Musketeer, he was dressed as a citizen. The Guards of the cardinal, perceiving his youth and that he did not belong to the corps, invited him to retire before they attacked.", "pos": 128679}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "So you may plainly see, Tréville, it was they who attacked?", "pos": 128962}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "That is true, sire; there can be no more doubt on that head. They called upon him then to retire; but he answered that he was a Musketeer at heart, entirely devoted to your Majesty, and that therefore he would remain with Messieurs the Musketeers.", "pos": 129048}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Brave young man!", "pos": 129298}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Well, he did remain with them; and your Majesty has in him so firm a champion that it was he who gave Jussac the terrible sword thrust which has made the cardinal so angry.", "pos": 129336}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "He who wounded Jussac! he, a boy! Tréville, that’s impossible!", "pos": 129511}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "It is as I have the honor to relate it to your Majesty.", "pos": 129594}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Jussac, one of the first swordsmen in the kingdom?", "pos": 129652}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Well, sire, for once he found his master.", "pos": 129705}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "I will see this young man, Tréville—I will see him; and if anything can be done—well, we will make it our business.", "pos": 129749}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "When will your Majesty deign to receive him?", "pos": 129867}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Tomorrow, at midday, Tréville.", "pos": 129914}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Shall I bring him alone?", "pos": 129947}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "No, bring me all four together. I wish to thank them all at once. Devoted men are so rare, Tréville, by the back staircase. It is useless to let the cardinal know. You understand, Tréville—an edict is still an edict, it is forbidden to fight, after all.", "pos": 129974}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "But this encounter, sire, is quite out of the ordinary conditions of a duel. It is a brawl; and the proof is that there were five of the cardinal’s Guardsmen against my three Musketeers and Monsieur d’Artagnan.", "pos": 130245}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "That is true, but never mind, Tréville, come still by the back staircase.", "pos": 130458}
{"speaker": "Bernajoux", "text": "It is not astonishing that that young man should be afraid of a ball, for he is doubtless a Musketeer apprentice.", "pos": 132945}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Pardieu", "pos": 133204}
{"speaker": "Bernajoux", "text": "look at me as long as you like, my little gentleman! I have said what I have said.", "pos": 133258}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And as since that which you have said is too clear to require any explanation, I beg you to follow me.", "pos": 133343}
{"speaker": "Bernajoux", "text": "And when?", "pos": 133486}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "At once, if you please.", "pos": 133546}
{"speaker": "Bernajoux", "text": "And you know who I am, without doubt?", "pos": 133572}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I? I am completely ignorant; nor does it much disquiet me.", "pos": 133612}
{"speaker": "Bernajoux", "text": "You’re in the wrong there; for if you knew my name, perhaps you would not be so pressing.", "pos": 133673}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What is your name?", "pos": 133765}
{"speaker": "Bernajoux", "text": "Bernajoux, at your service.", "pos": 133786}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, then, Monsieur Bernajoux, I will wait for you at the door.", "pos": 133816}
{"speaker": "Bernajoux", "text": "Go, monsieur, I will follow you.", "pos": 133914}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Do not hurry yourself, monsieur, lest it be observed that we go out together. You must be aware that for our undertaking, company would be in the way.", "pos": 133949}
{"speaker": "Bernajoux", "text": "That’s true,", "pos": 134102}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My faith! It is fortunate for you, although your name is Bernajoux, to have only to deal with an apprentice Musketeer. Never mind; be content, I will do my best. On guard!", "pos": 134922}
{"speaker": "Bernajoux", "text": "But it appears to me that this place is badly chosen, and that we should be better behind the Abbey St. Germain or in the Pré-aux-Clercs.", "pos": 135096}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What you say is full of sense, but unfortunately I have very little time to spare, having an appointment at twelve precisely. On guard, then, monsieur, on guard!", "pos": 135278}
{"speaker": "Bernajoux", "text": "To the rescue! The Hôtel de la Trémouille!", "pos": 137190}
{"speaker": "the four companions", "text": "To the rescue, Musketeers!", "pos": 137354}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Quick to the Louvre, to the Louvre without losing an instant, and let us endeavor to see the king before he is prejudiced by the cardinal. We will describe the thing to him as a consequence of the affair of yesterday, and the two will pass off together. Had his Majesty any intention of holding this hunting party yesterday?", "pos": 139302}
{"speaker": "the valet de chambre", "text": "No, your Excellency, the Master of the Hounds came this morning to inform him that he had marked down a stag. At first the king answered that he would not go; but he could not resist his love of sport, and set out after dinner.", "pos": 140012}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "And the king has seen the cardinal?", "pos": 140274}
{"speaker": "the valet de chambre", "text": "In all probability he has, for I saw the horses harnessed to his Eminence’s carriage this morning, and when I asked where he was going, they told me, ‘To St. Germain.’", "pos": 140334}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "He is beforehand with us. Gentlemen, I will see the king this evening; but as to you, I do not advise you to risk doing so.", "pos": 140548}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Monsieur, we fancy that we have each cause to complain of the other, and I am come to endeavor to clear up this affair.", "pos": 142213}
{"speaker": "M. de la Trémouille", "text": "I have no objection, but I warn you that I am well informed, and all the fault is with your Musketeers.", "pos": 142358}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "You are too just and reasonable a man, monsieur! not to accept the proposal I am about to make to you.", "pos": 142495}
{"speaker": "M. de la Trémouille", "text": "Make it, monsieur, I listen.", "pos": 142617}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "How is Monsieur Bernajoux, your esquire’s relative?", "pos": 142648}
{"speaker": "M. de la Trémouille", "text": "Why, monsieur, very ill indeed! In addition to the sword thrust in his arm, which is not dangerous, he has received another right through his lungs, of which the doctor says bad things.", "pos": 142702}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "But has the wounded man retained his senses?", "pos": 142890}
{"speaker": "M. de la Trémouille", "text": "Perfectly.", "pos": 142937}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Does he talk?", "pos": 142950}
{"speaker": "M. de la Trémouille", "text": "With difficulty, but he can speak.", "pos": 142966}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Well, monsieur, let us go to him. Let us adjure him, in the name of the God before whom he must perhaps appear, to speak the truth. I will take him for judge in his own cause, monsieur, and will believe what he will say.", "pos": 143003}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "I wish Bernajoux a speedy convalescence, took leave of M. de la Trémouille, returned to his hôtel, and immediately sent word to the four friends that he awaited their company at dinner.", "pos": 144127}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Matters go but badly, and we shall not be made Chevaliers of the Order this time.", "pos": 146454}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Wait here ten minutes, and if at the expiration of ten minutes you do not see me come out, return to my hôtel, for it will be useless for you to wait for me longer.", "pos": 146561}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Bad, monsieur, bad! I am bored. Monsieur So-and-so, let us weary ourselves together.", "pos": 147190}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "How! Your Majesty is bored? Have you not enjoyed the pleasures of the chase today?", "pos": 147421}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "A fine pleasure, indeed, monsieur! Upon my soul, everything degenerates; and I don’t know whether it is the game which leaves no scent, or the dogs that have no noses. We started a stag of ten branches. We chased him for six hours, and when he was near being taken—when St. Simon was already putting his horn to his mouth to sound the halali—crack, all the pack takes the wrong scent and sets off after a two-year-older. I shall be obliged to give up hunting, as I have given up hawking. Ah, I am an unfortunate king, Monsieur de Tréville! I had but one gerfalcon, and he died day before yesterday.", "pos": 147506}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Indeed, sire, I wholly comprehend your disappointment. The misfortune is great; but I think you have still a good number of falcons, sparrow hawks, and tiercels.", "pos": 148107}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "And not a man to instruct them. Falconers are declining. I know no one but myself who is acquainted with the noble art of venery. After me it will all be over, and people will hunt with gins, snares, and traps. If I had but the time to train pupils! But there is the cardinal always at hand, who does not leave me a moment’s repose; who talks to me about Spain, who talks to me about Austria, who talks to me about England! Ah! à propos of the cardinal, Monsieur de Tréville, I am vexed with you!", "pos": 148271}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "And in what have I been so unfortunate as to displease your Majesty?", "pos": 149006}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Is it thus you perform your charge, monsieur? Is it for this I name you captain of my Musketeers, that they should assassinate a man, disturb a whole quarter, and endeavor to set fire to Paris, without your saying a word? But yet, undoubtedly my haste accuses you wrongfully; without doubt the rioters are in prison, and you come to tell me justice is done.", "pos": 149140}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Sire, on the contrary, I come to demand it of you.", "pos": 149597}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "And against whom?", "pos": 149684}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Against calumniators,", "pos": 149720}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Ah! This is something new. Will you tell me that your three damned Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and your youngster from Béarn, have not fallen, like so many furies, upon poor Bernajoux, and have not maltreated him in such a fashion that probably by this time he is dead? Will you tell me that they did not lay siege to the hôtel of the Duc de la Trémouille, and that they did not endeavor to burn it?—which would not, perhaps, have been a great misfortune in time of war, seeing that it is nothing but a nest of Huguenots, but which is, in time of peace, a frightful example. Tell me, now, can you deny all this?", "pos": 149785}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "And who told you this fine story, sire?", "pos": 150411}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Who has told me this fine story, monsieur? Who should it be but he who watches while I sleep, who labors while I amuse myself, who conducts everything at home and abroad—in France as in Europe?", "pos": 150478}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Your Majesty probably refers to God, for I know no one except God who can be so far above your Majesty.", "pos": 150674}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "No, monsieur; I speak of the prop of the state, of my only servant, of my only friend—of the cardinal.", "pos": 150803}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "His Eminence is not his holiness, sire.", "pos": 150908}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "What do you mean by that, monsieur?", "pos": 150950}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "That it is only the Pope who is infallible, and that this infallibility does not extend to cardinals.", "pos": 150988}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "You mean to say that he deceives me; you mean to say that he betrays me? You accuse him, then? Come, speak; avow freely that you accuse him!", "pos": 151092}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "No, sire, but I say that he deceives himself. I say that he is ill-informed. I say that he has hastily accused your Majesty’s Musketeers, toward whom he is unjust, and that he has not obtained his information from good sources.", "pos": 151235}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "The accusation comes from Monsieur de la Trémouille, from the duke himself. What do you say to that?", "pos": 151465}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "I might answer, sire, that he is too deeply interested in the question to be a very impartial witness; but so far from that, sire, I know the duke to be a royal gentleman, and I refer the matter to him—but upon one condition, sire.", "pos": 151568}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "What?", "pos": 151802}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "It is that your Majesty will make him come here, will interrogate him yourself, tête-à-tête, without witnesses, and that I shall see your Majesty as soon as you have seen the duke.", "pos": 151810}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "What, then! You will bind yourself, by what Monsieur de la Trémouille shall say?", "pos": 151993}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Yes, sire.", "pos": 152094}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "You will accept his judgment?", "pos": 152107}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Undoubtedly.", "pos": 152139}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "And you will submit to the reparation he may require?", "pos": 152154}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 152210}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "La Chesnaye! let someone go instantly and find Monsieur de la Trémouille; I wish to speak with him this evening.", "pos": 152253}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Your Majesty gives me your word that you will not see anyone between Monsieur de la Trémouille and myself?", "pos": 152489}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Nobody, by the faith of a gentleman.", "pos": 152598}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Tomorrow, then, sire?", "pos": 152637}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Tomorrow, monsieur.", "pos": 152661}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "At what o’clock, please your Majesty?", "pos": 152683}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "At any hour you will.", "pos": 152723}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "But in coming too early I should be afraid of awakening your Majesty.", "pos": 152747}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Awaken me! Do you think I ever sleep, then? I sleep no longer, monsieur. I sometimes dream, that’s all. Come, then, as early as you like—at seven o’clock; but beware, if you and your Musketeers are guilty.", "pos": 152819}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "If my Musketeers are guilty, sire, the guilty shall be placed in your Majesty’s hands, who will dispose of them at your good pleasure. Does your Majesty require anything further? Speak, I am ready to obey.", "pos": 153027}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "No, monsieur, no; I am not called Louis the Just without reason. Tomorrow, then, monsieur—tomorrow.", "pos": 153235}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Till then, God preserve your Majesty!", "pos": 153337}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Monsieur de Tréville, his Majesty has just sent for me in order to inquire respecting the circumstances which took place yesterday at my hôtel. I have told him the truth; that is to say, that the fault lay with my people, and that I was ready to offer you my excuses. Since I have the good fortune to meet you, I beg you to receive them, and to hold me always as one of your friends. Monsieur the Duke. I was so confident of your loyalty that I required no other defender before his Majesty than yourself. I find that I have not been mistaken, and I thank you that there is still one man in France of whom may be said, without disappointment, what I have said of you.", "pos": 154649}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "That’s well said, only tell him, Tréville, since he wishes to be considered your friend, that I also wish to be one of his, but he neglects me; that it is nearly three years since I have seen him, and that I never do see him unless I send for him. Tell him all this for me, for these are things which a king cannot say for himself.", "pos": 155344}
{"speaker": "M. de la Trémouille", "text": "Thanks, sire, thanks, but your Majesty may be assured that it is not those—I do not speak of Monsieur de Tréville—whom your Majesty sees at all hours of the day that are most devoted to you.", "pos": 155755}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Ah! You have heard what I said? So much the better, Duke, so much the better. It is you, Tréville. Where are your Musketeers? I told you the day before yesterday to bring them with you; why have you not done so?", "pos": 155965}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "They are below, sire, and with your permission La Chesnaye will bid them come up.", "pos": 156227}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Yes, yes, let them come up immediately. It is nearly eight o’clock, and at nine I expect a visit. Go, Monsieur Duke, and return often. Come in, Tréville. Come in, my braves, come in; I am going to scold you. What the devil! Seven of his Eminence’s Guards placed hors de combat by you four in two days! That’s too many, gentlemen, too many! If you go on so, his Eminence will be forced to renew his company in three weeks, and I to put the edicts in force in all their rigor. One now and then I don’t say much about; but seven in two days, I repeat, it is too many, it is far too many!", "pos": 156311}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Therefore, sire, your Majesty sees that they are come, quite contrite and repentant, to offer you their excuses.", "pos": 157181}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Quite contrite and repentant! Hem! I place no confidence in their hypocritical faces. In particular, there is one yonder of a Gascon look. Come hither, monsieur. Why, you told me he was a young man? This is a boy, Tréville, a mere boy! Do you mean to say that it was he who bestowed that severe thrust at Jussac?", "pos": 157296}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "And those two equally fine thrusts at Bernajoux.", "pos": 157752}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Truly!", "pos": 157803}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "that if he had not rescued me from the hands of Cahusac, I should not now have the honor of making my very humble reverence to your Majesty.", "pos": 157845}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Why he is a very devil, this Béarnais! Ventre-saint-gris, Monsieur de Tréville, as the king my father would have said. But at this sort of work, many doublets must be slashed and many swords broken. Now, Gascons are always poor, are they not?", "pos": 157988}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Sire, I can assert that they have hitherto discovered no gold mines in their mountains; though the Lord owes them this miracle in recompense for the manner in which they supported the pretensions of the king your father.", "pos": 158233}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Which is to say that the Gascons made a king of me, myself, seeing that I am my father’s son, is it not, Tréville? Well, happily, I don’t say nay to it. La Chesnaye, go and see if by rummaging all my pockets you can find forty pistoles; and if you can find them, bring them to me. And now let us see, young man, with your hand upon your conscience, how did all this come to pass?", "pos": 158456}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "This is all very well,", "pos": 159384}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "yes, this is just the account the duke gave me of the affair. Poor cardinal! Seven men in two days, and those of his very best! But that’s quite enough, gentlemen; please to understand, that’s enough. You have taken your revenge for the Rue Férou, and even exceeded it; you ought to be satisfied.", "pos": 159428}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "If your Majesty is so, we are.", "pos": 159727}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Oh, yes; I am. Here, is a proof of my satisfaction. there, now, as it is half past eight, you may retire; for as I told you, I expect someone at nine. Thanks for your devotedness, gentlemen. I may continue to rely upon it, may I not?", "pos": 159777}
{"speaker": "the four companions", "text": "we would allow ourselves to be cut to pieces in your Majesty’s service.", "pos": 160540}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Well, well, but keep whole; that will be better, and you will be more useful to me. Tréville, as you have no room in the Musketeers, and as we have besides decided that a novitiate is necessary before entering that corps, place this young man in the company of the Guards of Monsieur Dessessart, your brother-in-law. Ah, pardieu, Tréville! I enjoy beforehand the face the cardinal will make. He will be furious; but I don’t care. I am doing what is right.", "pos": 160614}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Like master, like man.", "pos": 166404}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "That is my abode!", "pos": 170296}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And you, my dear companion, you speak of the baronesses, countesses, and princesses of others?", "pos": 172313}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Pardieu! I spoke of them because Porthos talked of them himself, because he had paraded all these fine things before me. But be assured, my dear Monsieur d’Artagnan, that if I had obtained them from any other source, or if they had been confided to me, there exists no confessor more discreet than myself.", "pos": 172421}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, I don’t doubt that, but it seems to me that you are tolerably familiar with coats of arms—a certain embroidered handkerchief, for instance, to which I owe the honor of your acquaintance?", "pos": 172729}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "My dear friend, do not forget that I wish to belong to the Church, and that I avoid all mundane opportunities. The handkerchief you saw had not been given to me, but it had been forgotten and left at my house by one of my friends. I was obliged to pick it up in order not to compromise him and the lady he loves. As for myself, I neither have, nor desire to have, a mistress, following in that respect the very judicious example of Athos, who has none any more than I have.", "pos": 173040}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But what the devil! You are not a priest, you are a Musketeer!", "pos": 173516}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "A Musketeer for a time, my friend, as the cardinal says, a Musketeer against my will, but a churchman at heart, believe me. Athos and Porthos dragged me into this to occupy me. I had, at the moment of being ordained, a little difficulty with—But that would not interest you, and I am taking up your valuable time.", "pos": 173581}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Not at all; it interests me very much, and at this moment I have absolutely nothing to do.", "pos": 173897}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Yes, but I have my breviary to repeat, then some verses to compose, which Madame d’Aiguillon begged of me. Then I must go to the Rue St. Honoré in order to purchase some rouge for Madame de Chevreuse. So you see, my dear friend, that if you are not in a hurry, I am very much in a hurry.", "pos": 174010}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "to consult a casuist with whom he had an appointment.", "pos": 175816}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Aramis would never be anything but a village curé.", "pos": 176115}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "This is all very easy for you to say, for you, Athos, who live like a dumb man with Grimaud, who forbid him to speak, and consequently never exchange ill words with him; for you, Porthos, who carry matters in such a magnificent style, and are a god to your valet, Mousqueton; and for you, Aramis, who, always abstracted by your theological studies, inspire your servant, Bazin, a mild, religious man, with a profound respect; but for me, who am without any settled means and without resources—for me, who am neither a Musketeer nor even a Guardsman, what am I to do to inspire either the affection, the terror, or the respect in Planchet?", "pos": 176854}
{"speaker": "The three friends", "text": "This is serious, it is a family affair. It is with valets as with wives, they must be placed at once upon the footing in which you wish them to remain. Reflect upon it.", "pos": 177517}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "For, the future cannot fail to mend; I inevitably look for better times. Your fortune is therefore made if you remain with me, and I am too good a master to allow you to miss such a chance by granting you the dismissal you require.", "pos": 177960}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "People do not eat at once for all time, even when they eat a good deal.", "pos": 182746}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "He who sleeps, dines.", "pos": 184670}
{"speaker": "the citizen", "text": "I have heard Monsieur d’Artagnan spoken of as a very brave young man, and this reputation which he justly enjoys had decided me to confide a secret to him.", "pos": 185259}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Speak, monsieur, speak,", "pos": 185437}
{"speaker": "the citizen", "text": "I have a wife who is seamstress to the queen, monsieur, and who is not deficient in either virtue or beauty. I was induced to marry her about three years ago, although she had but very little dowry, because Monsieur Laporte, the queen’s cloak bearer, is her godfather, and befriends her.", "pos": 185576}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, monsieur?", "pos": 185866}
{"speaker": "the citizen", "text": "Well! well, monsieur, my wife was abducted yesterday morning, as she was coming out of her workroom.", "pos": 185902}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And by whom was your wife abducted? And who is the person whom you suspect? Less love than politics. What do you suspect? Monsieur, I beg you to observe that I ask you absolutely nothing. It is you who have come to me. It is you who have told me that you had a secret to confide in me. Act, then, as you think proper; there is still time to withdraw. Ah, ah! Can it be on account of the amours of Madame de Bois-Tracy? Of Madame d’Aiguillon? Of Madame de Chevreuse? Of the—", "pos": 186028}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Pardieu! Know it! Indeed! Well, what does the queen believe? That is likely. His name?", "pos": 188679}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "He is your man, do you say? Yes, yes; but that has nothing to do with it. No, I am wrong. On the contrary, that simplifies the matter greatly. If your man is mine, with one blow I shall obtain two revenges, that’s all; but where to find this man? Have you no information as to his abiding place? What? You always come back to that; but I must make you see this time that it is too late to retreat. You call yourself Bonacieux? Ah, ah! You are my landlord? How can it be otherwise, my dear Bonacieux? I believe you, monsieur, I believe you; and as I was about to say, by the word of Bonacieux, I have confidence in you. Finish, then, what you were about to say. A letter? That’s pretty positive. Hum! Yes? Without doubt. And then I have thought that considering three months’ lodging, about which I have said nothing— Yes, yes; you have already given me that reason, and I find it excellent. Very kind! Admirable! You are rich then, my dear Monsieur Bonacieux? What! Where? It is he! This time he will not escape me! The man of Meung!", "pos": 190097}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Do you believe in apparitions?", "pos": 197250}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "I never believe in anything I have not seen, and as I never have seen apparitions, I don’t believe in them.", "pos": 197307}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "The Bible makes our belief in them a law; the ghost of Samuel appeared to Saul, and it is an article of faith that I should be very sorry to see any doubt thrown upon, Porthos.", "pos": 197433}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Planchet, go down to my landlord, Monsieur Bonacieux, and ask him to send me half a dozen bottles of Beaugency wine; I prefer that.", "pos": 198178}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ah, ah! You have credit with your landlord, then?", "pos": 198312}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 198379}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "We must use, and not abuse,", "pos": 198491}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "But come, what is this about?", "pos": 198743}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Yes, impart it to us, my dear friend, unless the honor of any lady be hazarded by this confidence; in that case you would do better to keep it to yourself.", "pos": 198790}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Be satisfied, the honor of no one will have cause to complain of what I have to tell.", "pos": 198963}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Your affair is not bad, and one may draw fifty or sixty pistoles from this good man. Then there only remains to ascertain whether these fifty or sixty pistoles are worth the risk of four heads.", "pos": 199317}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But observe, that there is a woman in the affair—a woman carried off, a woman who is doubtless threatened, tortured perhaps, and all because she is faithful to her mistress.", "pos": 199632}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Beware, D’Artagnan, beware. You grow a little too warm, in my opinion, about the fate of Madame Bonacieux. Woman was created for our destruction, and it is from her we inherit all our miseries.", "pos": 199828}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "It is not Madame Bonacieux about whom I am anxious, but the queen, whom the king abandons, whom the cardinal persecutes, and who sees the heads of all her friends fall, one after the other. Spain is her country, and it is very natural that she should love the Spanish, who are the children of the same soil as herself. As to the second reproach, I have heard it said that she does not love the English, but an Englishman.", "pos": 200119}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, and by my faith, it must be acknowledged that this Englishman is worthy of being loved. I never saw a man with a nobler air than his.", "pos": 200670}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Without reckoning that he dresses as nobody else can. I was at the Louvre on the day when he scattered his pearls; and, pardieu, I picked up two that I sold for ten pistoles each. Do you know him, Aramis?", "pos": 200826}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "As well as you do, gentlemen; for I was among those who seized him in the garden at Amiens, into which Monsieur Putange, the queen’s equerry, introduced me. I was at school at the time, and the adventure appeared to me to be cruel for the king.", "pos": 201049}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Which would not prevent me, if I knew where the Duke of Buckingham was, from taking him by the hand and conducting him to the queen, were it only to enrage the cardinal, and if we could find means to play him a sharp turn, I vow that I would voluntarily risk my head in doing it.", "pos": 201296}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "And did the mercer* rejoin Athos, tell you, D’Artagnan, that the queen thought that Buckingham had been brought over by a forged letter?", "pos": 201597}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "She is afraid so.", "pos": 201755}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Wait a minute, then,", "pos": 201775}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "What for?", "pos": 201811}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Go on, while I endeavor to recall circumstances.", "pos": 201841}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And now I am convinced, that this abduction of the queen’s woman is connected with the events of which we are speaking, and perhaps with the presence of Buckingham in Paris.", "pos": 201892}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "The Gascon is full of ideas. I like to hear him talk,", "pos": 202087}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "his dialect amuses me.", "pos": 202188}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Gentlemen, listen to this.", "pos": 202213}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Listen to Aramis. Yesterday I was at the house of a doctor of theology, whom I sometimes consult about my studies.", "pos": 202258}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "He resides in a quiet quarter, his tastes and his profession require it. Now, at the moment when I left his house—", "pos": 202415}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Well, at the moment you left his house?", "pos": 202572}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "This doctor has a niece,", "pos": 202909}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ah, he has a niece!", "pos": 202954}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "A very respectable lady,", "pos": 202997}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "We believe like Mohammedans, and are as mute as tombstones,", "pos": 203155}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I will continue, then. This niece comes sometimes to see her uncle; and by chance was there yesterday at the same time that I was, and it was my duty to offer to conduct her to her carriage.", "pos": 203229}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ah! She has a carriage, then, this niece of the doctor?", "pos": 203440}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Porthos. I have had the occasion to observe to you more than once that you are very indiscreet; and that is injurious to you among the women.", "pos": 203509}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Gentlemen, gentlemen, the thing is serious. Let us try not to jest, if we can. Go on Aramis, go on.", "pos": 203768}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "All at once, a tall, dark gentleman—just like yours, D’Artagnan.", "pos": 203949}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The same, perhaps,", "pos": 204016}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Possibly, came toward me, accompanied by five or six men who followed about ten paces behind him; and in the politest tone, ‘Monsieur Duke,’ said he to me, ‘and you madame,’ continued he, addressing the lady on my arm—", "pos": 204046}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "The doctor’s niece?", "pos": 204287}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Hold your tongue, Porthos,", "pos": 204309}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "—will you enter this carriage, and that without offering the least resistance, without making the least noise?", "pos": 204376}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "He took you for Buckingham!", "pos": 204490}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I believe so,", "pos": 204538}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "But the lady?", "pos": 204570}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "He took her for the queen!", "pos": 204601}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Just so,", "pos": 204647}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "The Gascon is the devil!", "pos": 204674}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "The fact is. Aramis is of the same height, and something of the shape of the duke; but it nevertheless appears to me that the dress of a Musketeer—", "pos": 204737}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I wore an enormous cloak,", "pos": 204903}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "In the month of July? The devil! Is the doctor afraid that you may be recognized?", "pos": 204944}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I can comprehend that the spy may have been deceived by the person; but the face— I had a large hat,", "pos": 205044}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Oh, good lord, what precautions for the study of theology!", "pos": 205162}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Gentlemen, gentlemen, do not let us lose our time in jesting. Let us separate, and let us seek the mercer’s wife—that is the key of the intrigue.", "pos": 205240}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "A woman of such inferior condition! Can you believe so?", "pos": 205407}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "She is goddaughter to Laporte, the confidential valet of the queen. Have I not told you so, gentlemen? Besides, it has perhaps been her Majesty’s calculation to seek on this occasion for support so lowly. High heads expose themselves from afar, and the cardinal is longsighted.", "pos": 205514}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Well, in the first place make a bargain with the mercer, and a good bargain.", "pos": 205794}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That’s useless, for I believe if he does not pay us, we shall be well enough paid by another party.", "pos": 205889}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Save me, gentlemen, for the love of heaven, save me! There are four men come to arrest me. Save me! Save me!", "pos": 206198}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "A moment. It is not courage that is needed; it is prudence.", "pos": 206347}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "And yet, we will not leave—", "pos": 206500}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You will leave D’Artagnan to act as he thinks proper. He has, I repeat, the longest head of the four, and for my part I declare that I will obey him. Do as you think best, D’Artagnan.", "pos": 206547}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Come in, gentlemen, come in, you are here in my apartment, and we are all faithful servants of the king and cardinal.", "pos": 206925}
{"speaker": "Leader of the party", "text": "Then, gentlemen, you will not oppose our executing the orders we have received?", "pos": 207066}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "On the contrary, gentlemen, we would assist you if it were necessary.", "pos": 207202}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "What does he say?", "pos": 207274}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You are a simpleton. Silence!", "pos": 207312}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "We can only save you by being free ourselves, and if we appear inclined to defend you, they will arrest us with you. Come, gentlemen, come! I have no motive for defending Monsieur. I saw him today for the first time, and he can tell you on what occasion; he came to demand the rent of my lodging. Is that not true, Monsieur Bonacieux? Answer!", "pos": 207408}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "That is the very truth, but Monsieur does not tell you—", "pos": 207851}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Silence, with respect to me, silence, with respect to my friends; silence about the queen, above all, or you will ruin everybody without saving yourself! Come, come, gentlemen, remove the fellow. You are a shabby old fellow, my dear. You come to demand money of me—of a Musketeer! To prison with him! Gentlemen, once more, take him to prison, and keep him under key as long as possible; that will give me time to pay him. May I not drink to your health, and you to mine?", "pos": 207929}
{"speaker": "Leader of the posse", "text": "That will do me great honor, and I accept thankfully.", "pos": 208749}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Then to yours, monsieur—what is your name?", "pos": 208837}
{"speaker": "Boisrenard", "text": "Boisrenard.", "pos": 208882}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Monsieur Boisrenard. To yours, my gentlemen! What is your name, in your turn, if you please?", "pos": 208896}
{"speaker": "Boisrenard", "text": "D’Artagnan.", "pos": 208993}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "To yours, monsieur. And above all others, to that of the king and the cardinal.", "pos": 209007}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "What diabolical villainy you have performed here. Shame, shame, for four Musketeers to allow an unfortunate fellow who cried for help to be arrested in their midst! And a gentleman to hobnob with a bailiff!", "pos": 209299}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Porthos. Athos has already told you that you are a simpleton, and I am quite of his opinion. D’Artagnan, you are a great man; and when you occupy Monsieur de Tréville’s place, I will come and ask your influence to secure me an abbey.", "pos": 209614}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Well, I am in a maze, do you approve of what D’Artagnan has done?", "pos": 209865}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Parbleu! Indeed I do. I not only approve of what he has done, but I congratulate him upon it.", "pos": 209949}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "All for one, one for all—that is our motto, is it not?", "pos": 210150}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "And yet—", "pos": 210207}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Hold out your hand and swear!", "pos": 210232}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "All for one, one for all. That’s well! Now let us everyone retire to his own home, and attention! For from this moment we are at feud with the cardinal.", "pos": 210466}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "If they knew anything, they would not question people in this manner. Now, what is it they want to know? Why, they want to know if the Duke of Buckingham is in Paris, and if he has had, or is likely to have, an interview with the queen.", "pos": 213396}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The devil! It seems like a woman! They search her; she resists; they use force—the scoundrels!", "pos": 214406}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "But I tell you that I am the mistress of the house, gentlemen! I tell you I am Madame Bonacieux; I tell you I belong to the queen!", "pos": 214668}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Madame Bonacieux! Can I be so lucky as to find what everybody is seeking for? Pardon, gentlemen—par— They are binding her; they are going to drag her away. My sword! Good, it is by my side! Planchet!", "pos": 214830}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Monsieur.", "pos": 215341}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Run and seek Athos, Porthos and Aramis. One of the three will certainly be at home, perhaps all three. Tell them to take arms, to come here, and to run! Ah, I remember, Athos is at Monsieur de Tréville’s. But where are you going, monsieur, where are you going? I am going down by the window, in order to be there the sooner,", "pos": 215353}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Oh, monsieur! Monsieur! You will kill yourself,", "pos": 215789}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Hold your tongue, stupid fellow. I will go myself and be caught in the mousetrap, but woe be to the cats that shall pounce upon such a mouse!", "pos": 215855}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Ah, monsieur! you have saved me; permit me to thank you.", "pos": 219283}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Madame. I have only done what every gentleman would have done in my place; you owe me no thanks.", "pos": 219354}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, yes, monsieur, oh, yes; and I hope to prove to you that you have not served an ingrate. But what could these men, whom I at first took for robbers, want with me, and why is Monsieur Bonacieux not here?", "pos": 219472}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Madame, those men were more dangerous than any robbers could have been, for they are the agents of the cardinal; and as to your husband, Monsieur Bonacieux, he is not here because he was yesterday evening conducted to the Bastille.", "pos": 219680}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "My husband in the Bastille! Oh, my God! What has he done? Poor dear man, he is innocence itself!", "pos": 219914}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What has he done, madame? I believe that his only crime is to have at the same time the good fortune and the misfortune to be your husband.", "pos": 220127}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "But, monsieur, you know then—", "pos": 220288}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I know that you have been abducted, madame.", "pos": 220320}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "And by whom? Do you know him? Oh, if you know him, tell me!", "pos": 220366}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "By a man of from forty to forty-five years, with black hair, a dark complexion, and a scar on his left temple.", "pos": 220428}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "That is he, that is he; but his name?", "pos": 220541}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah, his name? I do not know that.", "pos": 220581}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "And did my husband know I had been carried off?", "pos": 220617}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "He was informed of it by a letter, written to him by the abductor himself.", "pos": 220667}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "And does he suspect, the cause of this event?", "pos": 220744}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "He attributed it, I believe, to a political cause.", "pos": 220840}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "I doubted from the first; and now I think entirely as he does. Then my dear Monsieur Bonacieux has not suspected me a single instant?", "pos": 220893}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "So far from it, madame, he was too proud of your prudence, and above all, of your love. But, how did you escape?", "pos": 221029}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "I took advantage of a moment when they left me alone; and as I had known since morning the reason of my abduction, with the help of the sheets I let myself down from the window. Then, as I believed my husband would be at home, I hastened hither.", "pos": 221260}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "To place yourself under his protection?", "pos": 221508}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, no, poor dear man! I knew very well that he was incapable of defending me; but as he could serve us in other ways, I wished to inform him.", "pos": 221550}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Of what?", "pos": 221695}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, that is not my secret; I must not, therefore, tell you.", "pos": 221706}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Besides, pardon me, madame, if, guardsman as I am, I remind you of prudence—besides, I believe we are not here in a very proper place for imparting confidences. The men I have put to flight will return reinforced; if they find us here, we are lost. I have sent for three of my friends, but who knows whether they were at home?", "pos": 221768}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, yes! You are right, let us fly! Let us save ourselves.", "pos": 222116}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But whither shall we fly—whither escape?", "pos": 222308}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Let us first withdraw from this house; afterward we shall see.", "pos": 222351}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And now what are we to do, and where do you wish me to conduct you?", "pos": 222658}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "I am at quite a loss how to answer you, I admit. My intention was to inform Monsieur Laporte, through my husband, in order that Monsieur Laporte might tell us precisely what had taken place at the Louvre in the last three days, and whether there is any danger in presenting myself there.", "pos": 222746}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But I, can go and inform Monsieur Laporte.", "pos": 223059}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "No doubt you could, only there is one misfortune, and that is that Monsieur Bonacieux is known at the Louvre, and would be allowed to pass; whereas you are not known there, and the gate would be closed against you.", "pos": 223123}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah, bah! you have at some wicket of the Louvre a concierge who is devoted to you, and who, thanks to a password, would—", "pos": 223340}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "And if I give you this password, would you forget it as soon as you used it?", "pos": 223531}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "By my honor, by the faith of a gentleman! I will do, without a promise and voluntarily, all that I can do to serve the king and be agreeable to the queen. Dispose of me, then, as a friend.", "pos": 223622}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "But I—where shall I go meanwhile?", "pos": 224016}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Is there nobody from whose house Monsieur Laporte can come and fetch you?", "pos": 224052}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "No, I can trust nobody.", "pos": 224128}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Stop, we are near Athos’s door. Yes, here it is.", "pos": 224154}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Who is this Athos?", "pos": 224224}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "One of my friends.", "pos": 224245}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "But if he should be at home and see me?", "pos": 224266}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "He is not at home, and I will carry away the key, after having placed you in his apartment.", "pos": 224308}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "But if he should return?", "pos": 224402}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, he won’t return; and if he should, he will be told that I have brought a woman with me, and that woman is in his apartment.", "pos": 224429}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "But that will compromise me sadly, you know.", "pos": 224559}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Of what consequence? Nobody knows you. Besides, we are in a situation to overlook ceremony.", "pos": 224606}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Come, then, let us go to your friend’s house. Where does he live?", "pos": 224700}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Rue Férou, two steps from here.", "pos": 224768}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Let us go!", "pos": 224802}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You are at home. Remain here, fasten the door inside, and open it to nobody unless you hear three taps like this;", "pos": 225075}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "That is well. Now, in my turn, let me give you my instructions.", "pos": 225306}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I am all attention.", "pos": 225395}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Present yourself at the wicket of the Louvre, on the side of the Rue de l’Echelle, and ask for Germain.", "pos": 225417}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, and then?", "pos": 225523}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "He will ask you what you want, and you will answer by these two words, ‘Tours’ and ‘Bruxelles.’ He will at once put himself at your orders.", "pos": 225541}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And what shall I command him?", "pos": 225683}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "To go and fetch Monsieur Laporte, the queen’s valet de chambre.", "pos": 225715}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And when he shall have informed him, and Monsieur Laporte is come?", "pos": 225781}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "You will send him to me.", "pos": 225850}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That is well; but where and how shall I see you again?", "pos": 225877}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Do you wish to see me again?", "pos": 225934}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 225965}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Well, let that care be mine, and be at ease.", "pos": 225978}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I depend upon your word.", "pos": 226025}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "You may.", "pos": 226052}
{"speaker": "Laporte", "text": "Young man, a suggestion.", "pos": 226806}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What?", "pos": 226858}
{"speaker": "Laporte", "text": "You may get into trouble by what has taken place.", "pos": 226866}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You believe so?", "pos": 226918}
{"speaker": "Laporte", "text": "Yes. Have you any friend whose clock is too slow?", "pos": 226936}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well?", "pos": 226988}
{"speaker": "Laporte", "text": "Go and call upon him, in order that he may give evidence of your having been with him at half past nine. In a court of justice that is called an alibi.", "pos": 226996}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Pardon me, monsieur, but I thought, as it was yet only twenty-five minutes past nine, it was not too late to wait upon you.", "pos": 227744}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Twenty-five minutes past nine! why, that’s impossible!", "pos": 228005}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Look, rather, monsieur, the clock shows it.", "pos": 228108}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "That’s true. I believed it later. But what can I do for you?", "pos": 228173}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Shall I go and offer her my services? By her step she must be young; perhaps she is pretty. Oh, yes! But a woman who wanders in the streets at this hour only ventures out to meet her lover. If I should disturb a rendezvous, that would not be the best means of commencing an acquaintance. Pardieu! pardieu, it would be droll if this belated dove should be in search of our friend’s house. But on my soul, it looks so. Ah, my dear Aramis, this time I shall find you out.", "pos": 237209}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "This is all very fine, dear Aramis. Ah, Monsieur Hypocrite, I understand how you study theology. Ah, ah! not through doors, but through windows! Ah, this visit was expected. We shall see the windows open, and the lady enter by escalade. Very pretty!", "pos": 238791}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What the devil could that handkerchief signify?", "pos": 240402}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Kill me, if you please, you shall know nothing!", "pos": 243275}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, it is I, it is I, whom God has sent to watch over you.", "pos": 243923}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Was it with that intention you followed me?", "pos": 244004}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, no, I confess it. It was chance that threw me in your way; I saw a woman knocking at the window of one of my friends.", "pos": 244279}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "One of your friends?", "pos": 244422}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Without doubt; Aramis is one of my best friends.", "pos": 244473}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Aramis! Who is he?", "pos": 244524}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Come, come, you won’t tell me you don’t know Aramis?", "pos": 244545}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "This is the first time I ever heard his name pronounced.", "pos": 244600}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "It is the first time, then, that you ever went to that house?", "pos": 244659}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Undoubtedly.", "pos": 244723}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And you did not know that it was inhabited by a young man?", "pos": 244738}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "No.", "pos": 244799}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "By a Musketeer?", "pos": 244805}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "No, indeed!", "pos": 244823}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "It was not he, then, you came to seek?", "pos": 244837}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Not the least in the world. Besides, you must have seen that the person to whom I spoke was a woman.", "pos": 244878}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That is true; but this woman is a friend of Aramis—", "pos": 244981}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "I know nothing of that.", "pos": 245035}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "—since she lodges with him.", "pos": 245061}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "That does not concern me.", "pos": 245091}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But who is she?", "pos": 245119}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, that is not my secret.", "pos": 245137}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My dear Madame Bonacieux, you are charming; but at the same time you are one of the most mysterious women.", "pos": 245166}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Do I lose by that?", "pos": 245275}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No; you are, on the contrary, adorable. Give me your arm, then. Most willingly. And now?", "pos": 245296}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Now escort me.", "pos": 245391}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Where?", "pos": 245408}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Where I am going.", "pos": 245417}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But where are you going?", "pos": 245437}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "You will see, because you will leave me at the door.", "pos": 245464}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Shall I wait for you?", "pos": 245519}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "That will be useless.", "pos": 245543}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You will return alone, then?", "pos": 245567}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Perhaps yes, perhaps no.", "pos": 245598}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But will the person who shall accompany you afterward be a man or a woman?", "pos": 245625}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "I don’t know yet.", "pos": 245702}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But I will know it!", "pos": 245722}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "How so?", "pos": 245744}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I will wait until you come out.", "pos": 245754}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "In that case, adieu.", "pos": 245788}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Why so?", "pos": 245811}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "I do not want you.", "pos": 245821}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But you have claimed—", "pos": 245842}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "The aid of a gentleman, not the watchfulness of a spy.", "pos": 245866}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The word is rather hard.", "pos": 245923}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "How are they called who follow others in spite of them?", "pos": 245950}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "They are indiscreet.", "pos": 246008}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "The word is too mild.", "pos": 246031}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, madame, I perceive I must do as you wish.", "pos": 246055}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Why did you deprive yourself of the merit of doing so at once?", "pos": 246105}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Is there no merit in repentance?", "pos": 246170}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "And do you really repent?", "pos": 246205}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I know nothing about it myself. But what I know is that I promise to do all you wish if you allow me to accompany you where you are going.", "pos": 246233}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "And you will leave me then?", "pos": 246374}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 246404}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Without waiting for my coming out again?", "pos": 246411}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 246454}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Word of honor?", "pos": 246461}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "By the faith of a gentleman. Take my arm, and let us go.", "pos": 246478}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "And now, monsieur, it is here I have business; a thousand thanks for your honorable company, which has saved me from all the dangers to which, alone, I was exposed. But the moment is come to keep your word; I have reached my destination.", "pos": 246877}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And you will have nothing to fear on your return?", "pos": 247117}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "I shall have nothing to fear but robbers.", "pos": 247169}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And that is nothing?", "pos": 247213}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "What could they take from me? I have not a penny about me.", "pos": 247236}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You forget that beautiful handkerchief with the coat of arms.", "pos": 247297}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Which?", "pos": 247361}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That which I found at your feet, and replaced in your pocket.", "pos": 247370}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Hold your tongue, imprudent man! Do you wish to destroy me?", "pos": 247434}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You see very plainly that there is still danger for you, since a single word makes you tremble; and you confess that if that word were heard you would be ruined. Come, come, madame! come, be more generous. Confide in me. Have you not read in my eyes that there is nothing but devotion and sympathy in my heart?", "pos": 247496}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, therefore, ask my own secrets, and I will reveal them to you; but those of others—that is quite another thing.", "pos": 247889}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Very well. I shall discover them; as these secrets may have an influence over your life, these secrets must become mine.", "pos": 248033}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Beware of what you do! Oh, meddle in nothing which concerns me. Do not seek to assist me in that which I am accomplishing. This I ask of you in the name of the interest with which I inspire you, in the name of the service you have rendered me and which I never shall forget while I have life. Rather, place faith in what I tell you. Have no more concern about me; I exist no longer for you, any more than if you had never seen me.", "pos": 248175}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Must Aramis do as much as I, madame?", "pos": 248705}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "This is the second or third time, monsieur, that you have repeated that name, and yet I have told you that I do not know him.", "pos": 248776}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You do not know the man at whose shutter you have just knocked? Indeed, madame, you believe me too credulous!", "pos": 248904}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Confess that it is for the sake of making me talk that you invent this story and create this personage.", "pos": 249016}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I invent nothing, madame; I create nothing. I only speak that exact truth.", "pos": 249122}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "And you say that one of your friends lives in that house?", "pos": 249199}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I say so, and I repeat it for the third time; that house is one inhabited by my friend, and that friend is Aramis.", "pos": 249259}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "All this will be cleared up at a later period, no, monsieur, be silent.", "pos": 249376}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "If you could see my heart, you would there read so much curiosity that you would pity me and so much love that you would instantly satisfy my curiosity. We have nothing to fear from those who love us.", "pos": 249478}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "You speak very suddenly of love, monsieur, said the young woman, shaking her head.", "pos": 249700}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That is because love has come suddenly upon me, and for the first time; and because I am only twenty. About three months ago I was near having a duel with Aramis concerning a handkerchief resembling the one you showed to the woman in his house—for a handkerchief marked in the same manner, I am sure.", "pos": 249785}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Monsieur, you weary me very much, I assure you, with your questions.", "pos": 250190}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But you, madame, prudent as you are, think, if you were to be arrested with that handkerchief, and that handkerchief were to be seized, would you not be compromised?", "pos": 250285}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "In what way? The initials are only mine—C. B., Constance Bonacieux. Or Camille de Bois-Tracy. Silence, monsieur! Once again, silence! Ah, since the dangers I incur on my own account cannot stop you, think of those you may yourself run!", "pos": 250453}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Me?", "pos": 250695}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Yes; there is peril of imprisonment, risk of life in knowing me.", "pos": 250701}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Then I will not leave you.", "pos": 250768}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Monsieur! monsieur, in the name of heaven, by the honor of a soldier, by the courtesy of a gentleman, depart! There, there midnight sounds! That is the hour when I am expected.", "pos": 250797}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Madame, I can refuse nothing asked of me thus. Be content; I will depart.", "pos": 251080}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "But you will not follow me; you will not watch me?", "pos": 251156}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I will return home instantly.", "pos": 251209}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Ah, I was quite sure you were a good and brave young man,", "pos": 251241}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "well: I will not say as much as you do; what is lost for today may not be lost forever. Who knows, when I shall be at liberty, that I may not satisfy your curiosity?", "pos": 251865}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And will you make the same promise to my love?", "pos": 252033}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, as to that, I do not engage myself. That depends upon the sentiments with which you may inspire me.", "pos": 252125}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Then today, madame—", "pos": 252231}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, today, I am no further than gratitude.", "pos": 252253}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah! You are too charming, and you abuse my love.", "pos": 252298}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "No, I use your generosity, that’s all. But be of good cheer; with certain people, everything comes round.", "pos": 252381}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, you render me the happiest of men! Do not forget this evening—do not forget that promise.", "pos": 252489}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Be satisfied. In the proper time and place I will remember everything. Now then, go, go, in the name of heaven! I was expected at sharp midnight, and I am late.", "pos": 252584}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "By five minutes.", "pos": 252747}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Yes; but in certain circumstances five minutes are five ages.", "pos": 252766}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "When one loves.", "pos": 252830}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Well! And who told you I had no affair with a lover?", "pos": 252848}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "It is a man, then, who expects you? A man!", "pos": 252903}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "The discussion is going to begin again!", "pos": 252968}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, no; I go, I depart! I believe in you, and I would have all the merit of my devotion, even if that devotion were stupidity. Adieu, madame, adieu!", "pos": 253098}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Poor Athos! he will never guess what all this means. He will have fallen asleep waiting for me, or else he will have returned home, where he will have learned that a woman had been there. A woman with Athos! After all, there was certainly one with Aramis. All this is very strange; and I am curious to know how it will end.", "pos": 253891}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Badly, monsieur, badly!", "pos": 254252}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "How, badly? What do you mean by that, you idiot? What has happened?", "pos": 254491}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "All sorts of misfortunes.", "pos": 254581}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What?", "pos": 254609}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "In the first place, Monsieur Athos is arrested.", "pos": 254617}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Arrested! Athos arrested! What for?", "pos": 254667}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "He was found in your lodging; they took him for you.", "pos": 254705}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And by whom was he arrested?", "pos": 254760}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "By Guards brought by the men in black whom you put to flight.", "pos": 254791}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Why did he not tell them his name? Why did he not tell them he knew nothing about this affair?", "pos": 254855}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "He took care not to do so, monsieur; on the contrary, he came up to me and said,", "pos": 254952}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "It is your master that needs his liberty at this moment and not I, since he knows everything and I know nothing. They will believe he is arrested, and that will give him time; in three days I will tell them who I am, and they cannot fail to let me go.", "pos": 255034}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Bravo, Athos! Noble heart! I know him well there! And what did the officers do?", "pos": 255289}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Four conveyed him away, I don’t know where—to the Bastille or Fort l’Evêque. Two remained with the men in black, who rummaged every place and took all the papers. The last two mounted guard at the door during this examination; then, when all was over, they went away, leaving the house empty and exposed.", "pos": 255394}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And Porthos and Aramis?", "pos": 255701}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "I could not find them; they did not come.", "pos": 255727}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But they may come any moment, for you left word that I awaited them?", "pos": 255771}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Yes, monsieur.", "pos": 255842}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, don’t budge, then; if they come, tell them what has happened. Let them wait for me at the Pomme-de-Pin. Here it would be dangerous; the house may be watched. I will run to Monsieur de Tréville to tell them all this, and will meet them there.", "pos": 255859}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Very well, monsieur,", "pos": 256109}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But you will remain; you are not afraid?", "pos": 256147}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Be easy, monsieur, you do not know me yet. I am brave when I set about it. It is all in beginning. Besides, I am a Picard.", "pos": 256255}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Then it is understood, you would rather be killed than desert your post?", "pos": 256397}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Yes, monsieur; and there is nothing I would not do to prove to Monsieur that I am attached to him.", "pos": 256491}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Good! It appears that the method I have adopted with this boy is decidedly the best. I shall use it again upon occasion.", "pos": 256592}
{"speaker": "the Musketeer", "text": "What do you want, monsieur?", "pos": 259617}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "It is not Aramis!", "pos": 259791}
{"speaker": "Stranger", "text": "No, monsieur, it is not Aramis; and by your exclamation I perceive you have mistaken me for another, and pardon you.", "pos": 259821}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You pardon me?", "pos": 259940}
{"speaker": "Stranger", "text": "Yes. Allow me, then, to pass on, since it is not with me you have anything to do.", "pos": 259975}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You are right, monsieur, it is not with you that I have anything to do; it is with Madame.", "pos": 260083}
{"speaker": "Stranger", "text": "With Madame! You do not know her,", "pos": 260176}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You are deceived, monsieur; I know her very well.", "pos": 260234}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Ah, monsieur, I had your promise as a soldier and your word as a gentleman. I hoped to be able to rely upon that.", "pos": 260336}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And I, madame! you promised me—", "pos": 260452}
{"speaker": "Stranger", "text": "Take my arm, madame, and let us continue our way.", "pos": 260518}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "In the name of heaven, my Lord!", "pos": 260943}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "my Lord! my Lord! Pardon me, monsieur, but you are not—", "pos": 261137}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "and now you may ruin us all.", "pos": 261258}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My Lord, Madame, I ask a hundred pardons! But I love her, my Lord, and was jealous. You know what it is to love, my Lord. Pardon me, and then tell me how I can risk my life to serve your Grace?", "pos": 261289}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "You are a brave young man. Follow us at a distance of twenty paces, as far as the Louvre, and if anyone watches us, slay him!", "pos": 261485}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Remain here, my Lord Duke; someone will come.", "pos": 264211}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Duke, you already know that it is not I who caused you to be written to. Yes, yes, madame! Yes, your Majesty! I know that I must have been mad, senseless, to believe that snow would become animated or marble warm; but what then! They who love believe easily in love. Besides, I have lost nothing by this journey because I see you.", "pos": 268569}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Yes, but you know why and how I see you; because, insensible to all my sufferings, you persist in remaining in a city where, by remaining, you run the risk of your life, and make me run the risk of my honor. I see you to tell you that everything separates us—the depths of the sea, the enmity of kingdoms, the sanctity of vows. It is sacrilege to struggle against so many things, my Lord. In short, I see you to tell you that we must never see each other again.", "pos": 268922}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen, the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words. You talk of sacrilege! Why, the sacrilege is the separation of two hearts formed by God for each other.", "pos": 269402}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "My Lord, you forget that I have never said that I love you.", "pos": 269626}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "But you have never told me that you did not love me; and truly, to speak such words to me would be, on the part of your Majesty, too great an ingratitude. For tell me, where can you find a love like mine—a love which neither time, nor absence, nor despair can extinguish, a love which contents itself with a lost ribbon, a stray look, or a chance word? It is now three years, madame, since I saw you for the first time, and during those three years I have loved you thus. Shall I tell you each ornament of your toilet? Mark! I see you now. You were seated upon cushions in the Spanish fashion; you wore a robe of green satin embroidered with gold and silver, hanging sleeves knotted upon your beautiful arms—those lovely arms—with large diamonds. You wore a close ruff, a small cap upon your head of the same color as your robe, and in that cap a heron’s feather. Hold! Hold! I shut my eyes, and I can see you as you then were; I open them again, and I see what you are now—a hundred times more beautiful!", "pos": 269707}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "What folly, what folly to feed a useless passion with such remembrances!", "pos": 270714}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "And upon what then must I live? I have nothing but memory. It is my happiness, my treasure, my hope. Every time I see you is a fresh diamond which I enclose in the casket of my heart. This is the fourth which you have let fall and I have picked up; for in three years, madame, I have only seen you four times—the first, which I have described to you; the second, at the mansion of Madame de Chevreuse; the third, in the gardens of Amiens.", "pos": 270925}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Duke, never speak of that evening.", "pos": 271366}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, let us speak of it; on the contrary, let us speak of it! That is the most happy and brilliant evening of my life! You remember what a beautiful night it was? How soft and perfumed was the air; how lovely the blue heavens and star-enameled sky! Ah, then, madame, I was able for one instant to be alone with you. Then you were about to tell me all—the isolation of your life, the griefs of your heart. You leaned upon my arm—upon this, madame! I felt, in bending my head toward you, your beautiful hair touch my cheek; and every time that it touched me I trembled from head to foot. Oh, Queen! Queen! You do not know what felicity from heaven, what joys from paradise, are comprised in a moment like that. Take my wealth, my fortune, my glory, all the days I have to live, for such an instant, for a night like that. For that night, madame, that night you loved me, I will swear it.", "pos": 271431}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "My Lord, yes; it is possible that the influence of the place, the charm of the beautiful evening, the fascination of your look—the thousand circumstances, in short, which sometimes unite to destroy a woman—were grouped around me on that fatal evening; but, my Lord, you saw the queen come to the aid of the woman who faltered. At the first word you dared to utter, at the first freedom to which I had to reply, I called for help.", "pos": 272318}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, yes, that is true. And any other love but mine would have sunk beneath this ordeal; but my love came out from it more ardent and more eternal. You believed that you would fly from me by returning to Paris; you believed that I would not dare to quit the treasure over which my master had charged me to watch. What to me were all the treasures in the world, or all the kings of the earth! Eight days after, I was back again, madame. That time you had nothing to say to me; I had risked my life and favor to see you but for a second. I did not even touch your hand, and you pardoned me on seeing me so submissive and so repentant.", "pos": 272750}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Yes, but calumny seized upon all those follies in which I took no part, as you well know, my Lord. The king, excited by the cardinal, made a terrible clamor. Madame de Vernet was driven from me, Putange was exiled, Madame de Chevreuse fell into disgrace, and when you wished to come back as ambassador to France, the king himself—remember, my lord—the king himself opposed it.", "pos": 273385}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, and France is about to pay for her king’s refusal with a war. I am not allowed to see you, madame, but you shall every day hear of me. What object, think you, have this expedition to Ré and this league with the Protestants of La Rochelle which I am projecting? The pleasure of seeing you. I have no hope of penetrating, sword in hand, to Paris, I know that well. But this war may bring round a peace; this peace will require a negotiator; that negotiator will be me. They will not dare to refuse me then; and I will return to Paris, and will see you again, and will be happy for an instant. Thousands of men, it is true, will have to pay for my happiness with their lives; but what is that to me, provided I see you again! All this is perhaps folly—perhaps insanity; but tell me what woman has a lover more truly in love; what queen a servant more ardent?", "pos": 273764}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "My Lord, my Lord, you invoke in your defense things which accuse you more strongly. All these proofs of love which you would give me are almost crimes.", "pos": 274627}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because you do not love me, madame! If you loved me, you would view all this otherwise. If you loved me, oh, if you loved me, that would be too great happiness, and I should run mad. Ah, Madame de Chevreuse was less cruel than you. Holland loved her, and she responded to his love.", "pos": 274781}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Madame de Chevreuse was not queen,", "pos": 275065}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You would love me, then, if you were not queen! Madame, say that you would love me then! I can believe that it is the dignity of your rank alone which makes you cruel to me; I can believe that, had you been Madame de Chevreuse, poor Buckingham might have hoped. Thanks for those sweet words! Oh, my beautiful sovereign, a hundred times, thanks!", "pos": 275203}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Oh, my Lord! You have ill understood, wrongly interpreted; I did not mean to say—", "pos": 275550}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Silence, silence! If I am happy in an error, do not have the cruelty to lift me from it. You have told me yourself, madame, that I have been drawn into a snare; I, perhaps, may leave my life in it—for, although it may be strange, I have for some time had a presentiment that I should shortly die.", "pos": 275634}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Oh, my God!", "pos": 276011}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "I do not tell you this, madame, to terrify you; no, it is even ridiculous for me to name it to you, and, believe me, I take no heed of such dreams. But the words you have just spoken, the hope you have almost given me, will have richly paid all—were it my life.", "pos": 276163}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "I also, duke, have had presentiments; I also have had dreams. I dreamed that I saw you lying bleeding, wounded.", "pos": 276451}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "In the left side, was it not, and with a knife?", "pos": 276565}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Yes, it was so, my Lord, it was so—in the left side, and with a knife. Who can possibly have told you I had had that dream? I have imparted it to no one but my God, and that in my prayers.", "pos": 276639}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "I ask for no more. You love me, madame; it is enough.", "pos": 276830}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "I love you, I?", "pos": 276886}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Yes, yes. Would God send the same dreams to you as to me if you did not love me? Should we have the same presentiments if our existences did not touch at the heart? You love me, my beautiful queen, and you will weep for me?", "pos": 276903}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Oh, my God, my God! this is more than I can bear. In the name of heaven, Duke, leave me, go! I do not know whether I love you or love you not; but what I know is that I will not be perjured. Take pity on me, then, and go! Oh, if you are struck in France, if you die in France, if I could imagine that your love for me was the cause of your death, I could not console myself; I should run mad. Depart then, depart, I implore you!", "pos": 277154}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Oh, how beautiful you are thus! Oh, how I love you!", "pos": 277585}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Go, go, I implore you, and return hereafter! Come back as ambassador, come back as minister, come back surrounded with guards who will defend you, with servants who will watch over you, and then I shall no longer fear for your days, and I shall be happy in seeing you.", "pos": 277656}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Oh, is this true what you say?", "pos": 277927}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 277960}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Oh, then, some pledge of your indulgence, some object which came from you, and may remind me that I have not been dreaming; something you have worn, and that I may wear in my turn—a ring, a necklace, a chain.", "pos": 277967}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Will you depart—will you depart, if I give you that you demand?", "pos": 278178}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 278244}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "This very instant?", "pos": 278251}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 278272}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "You will leave France, you will return to England?", "pos": 278279}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "I will, I swear to you.", "pos": 278332}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Wait, then, wait. Here, my Lord, here, keep this in memory of me. You have promised me to go,", "pos": 278358}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "And I keep my word. Your hand, madame, your hand, and I depart! Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madame—even if I have to overturn the world.", "pos": 278708}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "But, Monsieur Commissary, believe that I know and appreciate, more than anybody, the merit of the incomparable eminence by whom we have the honor to be governed.", "pos": 282985}
{"speaker": "Commissary", "text": "Indeed?", "pos": 283149}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "How I came there, or rather why I am there, that is entirely impossible for me to tell you, because I don’t know myself; but to a certainty it is not for having, knowingly at least, disobliged Monsieur the Cardinal.", "pos": 283257}
{"speaker": "Commissary", "text": "Of high treason! you have a wife?", "pos": 283598}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, monsieur, that is to say,", "pos": 284001}
{"speaker": "Commissary", "text": "What, you ‘had one’? What have you done with her, then, if you have her no longer?", "pos": 284157}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "They have abducted her, monsieur.", "pos": 284242}
{"speaker": "Commissary", "text": "They have abducted her? Ah!", "pos": 284278}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "I think I know him.", "pos": 284491}
{"speaker": "Commissary", "text": "Who is he?", "pos": 284513}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Remember that I affirm nothing, Monsieur the Commissary, and that I only suspect.", "pos": 284526}
{"speaker": "Commissary", "text": "Whom do you suspect? Come, answer freely.", "pos": 284610}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "a tall, dark man, of lofty carriage, who has the air of a great lord. He has followed us several times, as I think, when I have waited for my wife at the wicket of the Louvre to escort her home.", "pos": 284933}
{"speaker": "Commissary", "text": "And his name?", "pos": 285193}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, as to his name, I know nothing about it; but if I were ever to meet him, I should recognize him in an instant, I will answer for it, were he among a thousand persons.", "pos": 285218}
{"speaker": "Commissary", "text": "You should recognize him among a thousand, say you? You have answered that you should recognize him", "pos": 285437}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "But I have not told you that I know him!", "pos": 285805}
{"speaker": "Commissary", "text": "Take away the prisoner,", "pos": 285908}
{"speaker": "Chief", "text": "Where must we place him?", "pos": 285973}
{"speaker": "Commissary", "text": "In a dungeon.", "pos": 286020}
{"speaker": "Chief", "text": "Which?", "pos": 286036}
{"speaker": "Commissary", "text": "Good Lord! In the first one handy, provided it is safe,", "pos": 286045}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Alas, alas! misfortune is over my head; my wife must have committed some frightful crime. They believe me her accomplice, and will punish me with her. She must have spoken; she must have confessed everything—a woman is so weak! A dungeon! The first he comes to! That’s it! A night is soon passed; and tomorrow to the wheel, to the gallows! Oh, my God, my God, have pity on me!", "pos": 286190}
{"speaker": "Commissary", "text": "Your affair has become more complicated since yesterday evening, my good man, and I advise you to tell the whole truth; for your repentance alone can remove the anger of the cardinal.", "pos": 287520}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Why, I am ready to tell everything,", "pos": 287706}
{"speaker": "Commissary", "text": "Where is your wife, in the first place?", "pos": 287821}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Why, did not I tell you she had been stolen from me?", "pos": 287863}
{"speaker": "Commissary", "text": "Yes, but yesterday at five o’clock in the afternoon, thanks to you, she escaped.", "pos": 287918}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "My wife escaped!", "pos": 288001}
{"speaker": "Commissary", "text": "What business had you, then, to go into the chamber of Monsieur d’Artagnan, your neighbor, with whom you had a long conference during the day?", "pos": 288124}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Ah, yes, Monsieur Commissary; yes, that is true, and I confess that I was in the wrong. I did go to Monsieur d’Artagnan’s.", "pos": 288268}
{"speaker": "Commissary", "text": "What was the aim of that visit?", "pos": 288393}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "To beg him to assist me in finding my wife. I believed I had a right to endeavor to find her. I was deceived, as it appears, and I ask your pardon.", "pos": 288427}
{"speaker": "Commissary", "text": "And what did Monsieur d’Artagnan reply?", "pos": 288577}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Monsieur d’Artagnan promised me his assistance; but I soon found out that he was betraying me.", "pos": 288619}
{"speaker": "Commissary", "text": "You impose upon justice. Monsieur d’Artagnan made a compact with you; and in virtue of that compact put to flight the police who had arrested your wife, and has placed her beyond reach.", "pos": 288716}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "M. d’Artagnan has abducted my wife! Come now, what are you telling me?", "pos": 288904}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Fortunately, Monsieur d’Artagnan is in our hands, and you shall be confronted with him.", "pos": 288977}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "By my faith, I ask no better. I shall not be sorry to see the face of an acquaintance.", "pos": 289067}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Bring in the Monsieur d’Artagnan,", "pos": 289175}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "declare all that passed yesterday between you and Monsieur.", "pos": 289337}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "But, this is not Monsieur d’Artagnan whom you show me.", "pos": 289399}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What! Not Monsieur d’Artagnan?", "pos": 289475}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Not the least in the world,", "pos": 289534}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is this gentleman’s name?", "pos": 289583}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "I cannot tell you; I don’t know him.", "pos": 289638}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How! You don’t know him?", "pos": 289677}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "No.", "pos": 289704}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Did you never see him?", "pos": 289710}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, I have seen him, but I don’t know what he calls himself.", "pos": 289735}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your name?", "pos": 289799}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Athos. That is my name,", "pos": 289836}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But you said that your name was D’Artagnan.", "pos": 290027}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Who, I?", "pos": 290073}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, you.", "pos": 290083}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Somebody said to me, ‘You are Monsieur d’Artagnan?’ I answered, ‘You think so?’ My guards exclaimed that they were sure of it. I did not wish to contradict them; besides, I might be deceived.", "pos": 290095}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Monsieur, you insult the majesty of justice.", "pos": 290289}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Not at all,", "pos": 290336}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are Monsieur d’Artagnan.", "pos": 290370}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You see, monsieur, that you say it again.", "pos": 290401}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "But I tell you, Monsieur Commissary, there is not the least doubt about the matter. Monsieur d’Artagnan is my tenant, although he does not pay me my rent—and even better on that account ought I to know him. Monsieur d’Artagnan is a young man, scarcely nineteen or twenty, and this gentleman must be thirty at least. Monsieur d’Artagnan is in Monsieur Dessessart’s Guards, and this gentleman is in the company of Monsieur de Tréville’s Musketeers. Look at his uniform, Monsieur Commissary, look at his uniform!", "pos": 290445}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s true,", "pos": 290989}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "pardieu, that’s true.", "pos": 291029}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, unhappy woman!", "pos": 291201}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "How? What do you say? Of whom do you speak? It is not of my wife, I hope!", "pos": 291244}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On the contrary, it is of her. Yours is a pretty business.", "pos": 291320}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "But, do me the pleasure, monsieur, to tell me how my own proper affair can become worse by anything my wife does while I am in prison?", "pos": 291381}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because that which she does is part of a plan concerted between you—of an infernal plan.", "pos": 291546}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "I swear to you, Monsieur Commissary, that you are in the profoundest error, that I know nothing in the world about what my wife had to do, that I am entirely a stranger to what she has done; and that if she has committed any follies, I renounce her, I abjure her, I curse her!", "pos": 291637}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Bah! if you have no more need of me, send me somewhere. Your Monsieur Bonacieux is very tiresome. And yet, if it be Monsieur d’Artagnan who is concerned in this matter, I do not perceive how I can take his place.", "pos": 291916}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do as I bade you,", "pos": 292320}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and preserve absolute secrecy. You understand!", "pos": 292362}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Follow me,", "pos": 292980}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Follow you! follow you at this hour! Where, my God?", "pos": 293041}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where we have orders to lead you.", "pos": 293114}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "But that is not an answer.", "pos": 293150}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is, nevertheless, the only one we can give.", "pos": 293179}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Ah, my God, my God! now, indeed, I am lost!", "pos": 293228}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is your name Bonacieux?", "pos": 297864}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, Monsieur Officer, at your service.", "pos": 297899}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Come in,", "pos": 297987}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is this that Bonacieux?", "pos": 300184}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, monseigneur,", "pos": 300247}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s well. Give me those papers, and leave us.", "pos": 300288}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are accused of high treason,", "pos": 300860}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "So I have been told already, monseigneur, but I swear to you that I know nothing about it.", "pos": 300922}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have conspired with your wife, with Madame de Chevreuse, and with my Lord Duke of Buckingham.", "pos": 301135}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Indeed, monseigneur. I have heard her pronounce all those names.", "pos": 301235}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And on what occasion?", "pos": 301326}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "She said that the Cardinal de Richelieu had drawn the Duke of Buckingham to Paris to ruin him and to ruin the queen.", "pos": 301350}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She said that?", "pos": 301469}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, monseigneur, but I told her she was wrong to talk about such things; and that his Eminence was incapable—", "pos": 301521}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Hold your tongue! You are stupid,", "pos": 301634}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "That’s exactly what my wife said, monseigneur.", "pos": 301692}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you know who carried off your wife?", "pos": 301741}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "No, monseigneur.", "pos": 301782}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have suspicions, nevertheless?", "pos": 301801}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, monseigneur; but these suspicions appeared to be disagreeable to Monsieur the Commissary, and I no longer have them.", "pos": 301838}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your wife has escaped. Did you know that?", "pos": 301962}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "No, monseigneur. I learned it since I have been in prison, and that from the conversation of Monsieur the Commissary—an amiable man.", "pos": 302006}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you are ignorant of what has become of your wife since her flight.", "pos": 302179}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Absolutely, monseigneur; but she has most likely returned to the Louvre.", "pos": 302253}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At one o’clock this morning she had not returned.", "pos": 302328}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "My God! What can have become of her, then?", "pos": 302380}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We shall know, be assured. Nothing is concealed from the cardinal; the cardinal knows everything.", "pos": 302425}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "In that case, monseigneur, do you believe the cardinal will be so kind as to tell me what has become of my wife?", "pos": 302525}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Perhaps he may; but you must, in the first place, reveal to the cardinal all you know of your wife’s relations with Madame de Chevreuse.", "pos": 302640}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "But, monseigneur, I know nothing about them; I have never seen her.", "pos": 302779}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When you went to fetch your wife from the Louvre, did you always return directly home?", "pos": 302849}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Scarcely ever; she had business to transact with linen drapers, to whose houses I conducted her.", "pos": 302938}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And how many were there of these linen drapers?", "pos": 303037}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Two, monseigneur.", "pos": 303087}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And where did they live?", "pos": 303107}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "One in Rue de Vaugirard, the other Rue de la Harpe.", "pos": 303134}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Did you go into these houses with her?", "pos": 303188}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Never, monseigneur; I waited at the door.", "pos": 303229}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And what excuse did she give you for entering all alone?", "pos": 303273}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "She gave me none; she told me to wait, and I waited.", "pos": 303332}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are a very complacent husband, my dear Monsieur Bonacieux,", "pos": 303387}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "He calls me his dear Monsieur. Peste! Matters are going all right.", "pos": 303471}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Should you know those doors again?", "pos": 303570}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 303607}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you know the numbers?", "pos": 303614}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 303641}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What are they?", "pos": 303648}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "No. 25 in the Rue de Vaugirard; 75 in the Rue de la Harpe.", "pos": 303665}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s well,", "pos": 303726}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Go,", "pos": 303835}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and find Rochefort. Tell him to come to me immediately, if he has returned.", "pos": 303870}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The count is here,", "pos": 303948}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and requests to speak with your Eminence instantly.", "pos": 303987}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let him come in, then!", "pos": 304041}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "It is he!", "pos": 304423}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He! What he?", "pos": 304452}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "The man who abducted my wife. No, monseigneur, no, it is not he! no, I was deceived. This is quite another man, and does not resemble him at all. Monsieur is, I am sure, an honest man.", "pos": 304487}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Take away that fool!", "pos": 304840}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They have seen each other;", "pos": 305116}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who?", "pos": 305188}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He and she.", "pos": 305215}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "The queen and the duke?", "pos": 305229}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 305272}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Where?", "pos": 305279}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At the Louvre.", "pos": 305288}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Are you sure of it?", "pos": 305305}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Perfectly sure.", "pos": 305327}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Who told you of it?", "pos": 305345}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Madame de Lannoy, who is devoted to your Eminence, as you know.", "pos": 305367}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Why did she not let me know sooner?", "pos": 305433}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Whether by chance or mistrust, the queen made Madame de Surgis sleep in her chamber, and detained her all day.", "pos": 305471}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Well, we are beaten! Now let us try to take our revenge.", "pos": 305584}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will assist you with all my heart, monseigneur; be assured of that.", "pos": 305643}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "How did it come about?", "pos": 305715}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At half past twelve the queen was with her women—", "pos": 305740}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Where?", "pos": 305792}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In her bedchamber—", "pos": 305801}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Go on.", "pos": 305822}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When someone came and brought her a handkerchief from her laundress.", "pos": 305831}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "And then?", "pos": 305902}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The queen immediately exhibited strong emotion; and despite the rouge with which her face was covered evidently turned pale—", "pos": 305914}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "And then, and then?", "pos": 306041}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She then arose, and with altered voice, ‘Ladies,’ said she, ‘wait for me ten minutes, I shall soon return.’ She then opened the door of her alcove, and went out.", "pos": 306063}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Why did not Madame de Lannoy come and inform you instantly?", "pos": 306227}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nothing was certain; besides, her Majesty had said, ‘Ladies, wait for me,’ and she did not dare to disobey the queen.", "pos": 306289}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How long did the queen remain out of the chamber?", "pos": 306408}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Three-quarters of an hour.", "pos": 306460}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "None of her women accompanied her?", "pos": 306489}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Only Donna Estafania.", "pos": 306526}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Did she afterward return?", "pos": 306550}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; but only to take a little rosewood casket, with her cipher upon it, and went out again immediately.", "pos": 306578}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And when she finally returned, did she bring that casket with her?", "pos": 306685}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No.", "pos": 306754}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Does Madame de Lannoy know what was in that casket?", "pos": 306760}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; the diamond studs which his Majesty gave the queen.", "pos": 306814}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And she came back without this casket?", "pos": 306873}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 306914}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Madame de Lannoy, then, is of opinion that she gave them to Buckingham?", "pos": 306921}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She is sure of it.", "pos": 306995}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How can she be so?", "pos": 307016}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In the course of the day Madame de Lannoy, in her quality of tire-woman of the queen, looked for this casket, appeared uneasy at not finding it, and at length asked information of the queen.", "pos": 307037}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And then the queen?", "pos": 307230}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The queen became exceedingly red, and replied that having in the evening broken one of those studs, she had sent it to her goldsmith to be repaired.", "pos": 307252}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He must be called upon, and so ascertain if the thing be true or not.", "pos": 307403}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have just been with him.", "pos": 307475}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And the goldsmith?", "pos": 307504}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The goldsmith has heard nothing of it.", "pos": 307525}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Well, well! Rochefort, all is not lost; and perhaps—perhaps everything is for the best.", "pos": 307566}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "The fact is that I do not doubt your Eminence’s genius—", "pos": 307656}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Will repair the blunders of his agent—is that it?", "pos": 307714}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "That is exactly what I was going to say, if your Eminence had let me finish my sentence.", "pos": 307766}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Meanwhile, do you know where the Duchesse de Chevreuse and the Duke of Buckingham are now concealed?", "pos": 307857}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "No, monseigneur; my people could tell me nothing on that head.", "pos": 307960}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "But I know.", "pos": 308025}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "You, monseigneur?", "pos": 308039}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Yes; or at least I guess. They were, one in the Rue de Vaugirard, No. 25; the other in the Rue de la Harpe, No. 75.", "pos": 308059}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "Does your Eminence command that they both be instantly arrested?", "pos": 308177}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "It will be too late; they will be gone.", "pos": 308244}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "But still, we can make sure that they are so.", "pos": 308286}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Take ten men of my Guardsmen, and search the two houses thoroughly.", "pos": 308334}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "Instantly, monseigneur.", "pos": 308404}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Bring the prisoner in again. You have deceived me!", "pos": 308600}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "I. I deceive your Eminence!", "pos": 308794}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Your wife, in going to Rue de Vaugirard and Rue de la Harpe, did not go to find linen drapers.", "pos": 308843}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Then why did she go, just God?", "pos": 308940}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "She went to meet the Duchesse de Chevreuse and the Duke of Buckingham.", "pos": 308973}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, yes, that’s it. Your Eminence is right. I told my wife several times that it was surprising that linen drapers should live in such houses as those, in houses that had no signs; but she always laughed at me. Ah, monseigneur! ah, how truly you are the cardinal, the great cardinal, the man of genius whom all the world reveres!", "pos": 309046}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Rise, my friend, you are a worthy man.", "pos": 309795}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "The cardinal has touched me with his hand! I have touched the hand of the great man! The great man has called me his friend!", "pos": 309836}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Yes, my friend, yes, and as you have been unjustly suspected, well, you must be indemnified. Here, take this purse of a hundred pistoles, and pardon me.", "pos": 309982}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "I pardon you, monseigneur! But you are able to have me arrested, you are able to have me tortured, you are able to have me hanged; you are the master, and I could not have the least word to say. Pardon you, monseigneur! You cannot mean that!", "pos": 310259}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Ah, my dear Monsieur Bonacieux, you are generous in this matter. I see it and I thank you for it. Thus, then, you will take this bag, and you will go away without being too malcontent.", "pos": 310618}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "I go away enchanted.", "pos": 310805}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Farewell, then, or rather, au revoir, for I hope we shall meet again.", "pos": 310828}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Whenever Monseigneur wishes, I am always at at his Eminence’s orders.", "pos": 310900}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "That will be frequently, I assure you, for I have found something extremely agreeable in your conversation.", "pos": 310972}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Oh! Monseigneur!", "pos": 311082}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Au revoir, Monsieur Bonacieux, au revoir!", "pos": 311101}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Long life to the Monseigneur! Long life to his Eminence! Long life to the great cardinal!", "pos": 311364}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Good! that man would henceforward lay down his life for me. Well?", "pos": 311614}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "Well, a young woman of about twenty-six or twenty-eight years of age, and a man of from thirty-five to forty, have indeed lodged at the two houses pointed out by your Eminence; but the woman left last night, and the man this morning.", "pos": 312219}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "It was they! and now it is too late to have them pursued. The duchess is at Tours, and the duke at Boulogne. It is in London they must be found.", "pos": 312474}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "What are your Eminence’s orders?", "pos": 312665}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Not a word of what has passed. Let the queen remain in perfect security; let her be ignorant that we know her secret. Let her believe that we are in search of some conspiracy or other. Send me the keeper of the seals, Séguier.", "pos": 312700}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "And that man, what has your Eminence done with him?", "pos": 312929}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "What man?", "pos": 312983}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "That Bonacieux.", "pos": 313015}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "I have done with him all that could be done. I have made him a spy upon his wife. Tell Vitray to come to me, and tell him to get ready for a journey. Vitray, you will go with all speed to London. You must not stop an instant on the way. You will deliver this letter to Milady. Here is an order for two hundred pistoles; call upon my treasurer and get the money. You shall have as much again if you are back within six days, and have executed your commission well.", "pos": 313033}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Twenty witnesses, could attest the fact", "pos": 315675}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "You arrive in good time, monsieur. I have learned some fine things concerning your Musketeers.", "pos": 318958}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "And I. I have some pretty things to tell your Majesty concerning these gownsmen.", "pos": 319148}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "What?", "pos": 319256}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "I have the honor to inform your Majesty, that a party of procureurs, commissaries, and men of the police—very estimable people, but very inveterate, as it appears, against the uniform—have taken upon themselves to arrest in a house, to lead away through the open street, and throw into Fort l’Evêque, all upon an order which they have refused to show me, one of my, or rather your Musketeers, sire, of irreproachable conduct, of an almost illustrious reputation, and whom your Majesty knows favorably, Monsieur Athos.", "pos": 319293}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Athos, yes, certainly I know that name.", "pos": 319859}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Let your Majesty remember, that Monsieur Athos is the Musketeer who, in the annoying duel which you are acquainted with, had the misfortune to wound Monsieur de Cahusac so seriously. A propos, monseigneur. Monsieur de Cahusac is quite recovered, is he not?", "pos": 319932}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Thank you,", "pos": 320255}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Athos, then, went to pay a visit to one of his friends absent at the time,", "pos": 320315}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And the next day, Bernajoux. Yes, sire, yes, it is the same; and your Majesty has a good memory.", "pos": 324627}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Come, how shall we decide?", "pos": 324726}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "That concerns your Majesty more than me. I should affirm the culpability.", "pos": 324770}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "And I deny it. But his Majesty has judges, and these judges will decide.", "pos": 324867}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "That is best. Send the case before the judges; it is their business to judge, and they shall judge.", "pos": 324959}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Only, it is a sad thing that in the unfortunate times in which we live, the purest life, the most incontestable virtue, cannot exempt a man from infamy and persecution. The army, I will answer for it, will be but little pleased at being exposed to rigorous treatment on account of police affairs.", "pos": 325078}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Police affairs! police affairs! And what do you know about them, Monsieur? Meddle with your Musketeers, and do not annoy me in this way. It appears, according to your account, that if by mischance a Musketeer is arrested, France is in danger. What a noise about a Musketeer! I would arrest ten of them, ventrebleu, a hundred, even, all the company, and I would not allow a whisper.", "pos": 325590}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "From the moment they are suspected by your Majesty, the Musketeers are guilty; therefore, you see me prepared to surrender my sword—for after having accused my soldiers, there can be no doubt that Monsieur the Cardinal will end by accusing me. It is best to constitute myself at once a prisoner with Athos, who is already arrested, and with D’Artagnan, who most probably will be.", "pos": 326020}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Gascon-headed man, will you have done?", "pos": 326419}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Sire, either order my Musketeer to be restored to me, or let him be tried.", "pos": 326475}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "He shall be tried,", "pos": 326613}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Well, so much the better; for in that case I shall demand of his Majesty permission to plead for him.", "pos": 326653}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "If his Eminence, did not have personal motives—", "pos": 326786}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Pardon me, but the instant your Majesty considers me a prejudiced judge, I withdraw.", "pos": 326916}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Come, will you swear, by my father, that Athos was at your residence during the event and that he took no part in it?", "pos": 327014}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "By your glorious father, and by yourself, whom I love and venerate above all the world, I swear it.", "pos": 327151}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Be so kind as to reflect, sire. If we release the prisoner thus, we shall never know the truth.", "pos": 327253}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Athos may always be found, ready to answer, when it shall please the gownsmen to interrogate him. He will not desert, Monsieur the Cardinal, be assured of that; I will answer for him.", "pos": 327372}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "No, he will not desert, he can always be found, as Tréville says. Besides, let us give them apparent security; that is policy.", "pos": 327578}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Order it as you please, sire; you possess the right of pardon.", "pos": 327854}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "The right of pardoning only applies to the guilty, and my Musketeer is innocent. It is not mercy, then, that you are about to accord, sire, it is justice.", "pos": 327919}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "And he is in the Fort l’Evêque?", "pos": 328135}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, sire, in solitary confinement, in a dungeon, like the lowest criminal.", "pos": 328184}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "The devil! what must be done?", "pos": 328262}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Sign an order for his release, and all will be said. I believe with your Majesty that Monsieur de Tréville’s guarantee is more than sufficient. A perfect harmony reigns, sire, between the leaders and the soldiers of your Musketeers, which must be profitable for the service and honorable to all.", "pos": 328315}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "He will play me some dog’s trick or other, and that immediately. One has never the last word with such a man. But let us be quick—the king may change his mind in an hour; and at all events it is more difficult to replace a man in the Fort l’Evêque or the Bastille who has got out, than to keep a prisoner there who is in. You have come off well, there is your Jussac thrust paid for. There still remains that of Bernajoux, but you must not be too confident.", "pos": 328989}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Now that we are at length by ourselves, we will, if your Majesty pleases, converse seriously. Sire, Buckingham has been in Paris five days, and only left this morning.", "pos": 329907}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Buckingham in Paris! and why does he come?", "pos": 330385}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "To conspire, no doubt, with your enemies, the Huguenots and the Spaniards.", "pos": 330442}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "No, pardieu, no! To conspire against my honor with Madame de Chevreuse, Madame de Longueville, and the Condés.", "pos": 330519}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Oh, sire, what an idea! The queen is too virtuous; and besides, loves your Majesty too well.", "pos": 330632}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Woman is weak, Monsieur Cardinal, and as to loving me much, I have my own opinion as to that love.", "pos": 330727}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "I not the less maintain, that the Duke of Buckingham came to Paris for a project wholly political.", "pos": 330845}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "And I am sure that he came for quite another purpose, Monsieur Cardinal; but if the queen be guilty, let her tremble!", "pos": 330967}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Indeed, whatever repugnance I may have to directing my mind to such a treason, your Majesty compels me to think of it. Madame de Lannoy, whom, according to your Majesty’s command, I have frequently interrogated, told me this morning that the night before last her Majesty sat up very late, that this morning she wept much, and that she was writing all day.", "pos": 331087}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "That’s it! to him, no doubt. Cardinal, I must have the queen’s papers.", "pos": 331467}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "But how to take them, sire? It seems to me that it is neither your Majesty nor myself who can charge himself with such a mission.", "pos": 331558}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "How did they act with regard to the Maréchale d’Ancre? first her closets were thoroughly searched, and then she herself.", "pos": 331690}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "The Maréchale d’Ancre was no more than the Maréchale d’Ancre. A Florentine adventurer, sire, and that was all; while the august spouse of your Majesty is Anne of Austria, Queen of France—that is to say, one of the greatest princesses in the world.", "pos": 331863}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "She is not the less guilty, Monsieur Duke! The more she has forgotten the high position in which she was placed, the more degrading is her fall. Besides, I long ago determined to put an end to all these petty intrigues of policy and love. She has near her a certain Laporte.", "pos": 332113}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Who, I believe, is the mainspring of all this, I confess,", "pos": 332390}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "You think then, as I do, that she deceives me?", "pos": 332469}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "I believe, and I repeat it to your Majesty, that the queen conspires against the power of the king, but I have not said against his honor.", "pos": 332533}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "And I—I tell you against both. I tell you the queen does not love me; I tell you she loves another; I tell you she loves that infamous Buckingham! Why did you not have him arrested while in Paris?", "pos": 332674}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Arrest the Duke! Arrest the prime minister of King Charles I.! Think of it, sire! What a scandal! And if the suspicions of your Majesty, which I still continue to doubt, should prove to have any foundation, what a terrible disclosure, what a fearful scandal!", "pos": 332873}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "But as he exposed himself like a vagabond or a thief, he should have been—", "pos": 333134}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "He should have been—?", "pos": 333383}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Nothing, nothing. But all the time he was in Paris, you, of course, did not lose sight of him?", "pos": 333407}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "No, sire.", "pos": 333521}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Where did he lodge?", "pos": 333533}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Rue de la Harpe. No. 75.", "pos": 333555}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Where is that?", "pos": 333582}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "By the side of the Luxembourg.", "pos": 333599}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "And you are certain that the queen and he did not see each other?", "pos": 333632}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "I believe the queen to have too high a sense of her duty, sire.", "pos": 333700}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "But they have corresponded; it is to him that the queen has been writing all the day. Monsieur Duke, I must have those letters!", "pos": 333766}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Sire, notwithstanding—", "pos": 333896}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Monsieur Duke, at whatever price it may be, I will have them.", "pos": 333921}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "I would, however, beg your Majesty to observe—", "pos": 333985}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Do you, then, also join in betraying me, Monsieur Cardinal, by thus always opposing my will? Are you also in accord with Spain and England, with Madame de Chevreuse and the queen?", "pos": 334034}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Sire. I believed myself secure from such a suspicion.", "pos": 334216}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Monsieur Cardinal, you have heard me; I will have those letters.", "pos": 334305}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "There is but one way.", "pos": 334372}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 334396}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "That would be to charge Monsieur de Séguier, the keeper of the seals, with this mission. The matter enters completely into the duties of the post.", "pos": 334412}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Let him be sent for instantly.", "pos": 334561}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "He is most likely at my hôtel. I requested him to call, and when I came to the Louvre I left orders if he came, to desire him to wait.", "pos": 334594}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Let him be sent for instantly.", "pos": 334731}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Your Majesty’s orders shall be executed; but—", "pos": 334764}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "But what?", "pos": 334812}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "But the queen will perhaps refuse to obey.", "pos": 334824}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "My orders?", "pos": 334869}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Yes, if she is ignorant that these orders come from the king.", "pos": 334882}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Well, that she may have no doubt on that head, I will go and inform her myself.", "pos": 334946}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Your Majesty will not forget that I have done everything in my power to prevent a rupture.", "pos": 335028}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Yes, Duke, yes, I know you are very indulgent toward the queen, too indulgent, perhaps; we shall have occasion, I warn you, at some future period to speak of that.", "pos": 335121}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Whenever it shall please your Majesty; but I shall be always happy and proud, sire, to sacrifice myself to the harmony which I desire to see reign between you and the Queen of France.", "pos": 335287}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Very well, Cardinal, very well; but, meantime, send for Monsieur the Keeper of the Seals. I will go to the queen.", "pos": 335473}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Madame, you are about to receive a visit from the chancellor, who will communicate certain matters to you with which I have charged him.", "pos": 337478}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "But why this visit, sire? What can the chancellor have to say to me that your Majesty could not say yourself?", "pos": 337782}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "What do you desire, monsieur, and with what object do you present yourself here?", "pos": 341154}
{"speaker": "chancellor", "text": "To make, madame, in the name of the king, and without prejudice to the respect which I have the honor to owe to your Majesty a close examination into all your papers.", "pos": 341237}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "How, monsieur, an investigation of my papers—mine! Truly, this is an indignity!", "pos": 341406}
{"speaker": "chancellor", "text": "Be kind enough to pardon me, madame; but in this circumstance I am but the instrument which the king employs. Has not his Majesty just left you, and has he not himself asked you to prepare for this visit?", "pos": 341488}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Search, then, monsieur! I am a criminal, as it appears. Estafania, give up the keys of my drawers and my desks.", "pos": 341695}
{"speaker": "chancellor", "text": "And now it remains for me to make the principal examination.", "pos": 342390}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 342453}
{"speaker": "chancellor", "text": "His majesty is certain that a letter has been written by you during the day; he knows that it has not yet been sent to its address. This letter is not in your table nor in your secretary; and yet this letter must be somewhere.", "pos": 342551}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Would you dare to lift your hand to your queen?", "pos": 342779}
{"speaker": "the chancellor", "text": "I am a faithful subject of the king, madame, and all that his Majesty commands I shall do.", "pos": 342969}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Well, it is true! and the spies of the cardinal have served him faithfully. I have written a letter today; that letter is not yet gone. The letter is here.", "pos": 343062}
{"speaker": "the chancellor", "text": "Then give me that letter, madame,", "pos": 343296}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "I will give it to none but the king, monsieur,", "pos": 343353}
{"speaker": "the chancellor", "text": "If the king had desired that the letter should be given to him, madame, he would have demanded it of you himself. But I repeat to you, I am charged with reclaiming it; and if you do not give it up—", "pos": 343413}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Well?", "pos": 343613}
{"speaker": "the chancellor", "text": "He has, then, charged me to take it from you.", "pos": 343621}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "How! What do you say?", "pos": 343669}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That my orders go far, madame; and that I am authorized to seek for the suspected paper, even on the person of your Majesty.", "pos": 343693}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "What horror!", "pos": 343820}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Be kind enough, then, madame, to act more compliantly.", "pos": 343852}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "The conduct is infamously violent! Do you know that, monsieur?", "pos": 343909}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The king commands it, madame; excuse me.", "pos": 343974}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "I will not suffer it! No, no, I would rather die!", "pos": 344017}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "There, monsieur, there is that letter! take it, and deliver me from your odious presence.", "pos": 345223}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There, Duke,", "pos": 346540}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you were right and I was wrong. The whole intrigue is political, and there is not the least question of love in this letter; but, on the other hand, there is abundant question of you.", "pos": 346564}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, your Majesty,", "pos": 346891}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you see how far my enemies go; they menace you with two wars if you do not dismiss me. In your place, in truth, sire, I should yield to such powerful instance; and on my part, it would be a real happiness to withdraw from public affairs.", "pos": 346922}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What say you, Duke?", "pos": 347162}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I say, sire, that my health is sinking under these excessive struggles and these never-ending labors. I say that according to all probability I shall not be able to undergo the fatigues of the siege of La Rochelle, and that it would be far better that you should appoint there either Monsieur de Condé, Monsieur de Bassopierre, or some valiant gentleman whose business is war, and not me, who am a churchman, and who am constantly turned aside for my real vocation to look after matters for which I have no aptitude. You would be the happier for it at home, sire, and I do not doubt you would be the greater for it abroad.", "pos": 347184}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Monsieur Duke,", "pos": 347809}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I understand you. Be satisfied, all who are named in that letter shall be punished as they deserve, even the queen herself.", "pos": 347841}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What do you say, sire? God forbid that the queen should suffer the least inconvenience or uneasiness on my account! She has always believed me, sire, to be her enemy; although your Majesty can bear witness that I have always taken her part warmly, even against you. Oh, if she betrayed your Majesty on the side of your honor, it would be quite another thing, and I should be the first to say, ‘No grace, sire—no grace for the guilty!’ Happily, there is nothing of the kind, and your Majesty has just acquired a new proof of it.", "pos": 347967}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is true, Monsieur Cardinal,", "pos": 348497}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and you were right, as you always are; but the queen, not the less, deserves all my anger.", "pos": 348547}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is you, sire, who have now incurred hers. And even if she were to be seriously offended, I could well understand it; your Majesty has treated her with a severity—", "pos": 348640}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is thus I will always treat my enemies and yours, Duke, however high they may be placed, and whatever peril I may incur in acting severely toward them.", "pos": 348808}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The queen is my enemy, but is not yours, sire; on the contrary, she is a devoted, submissive, and irreproachable wife. Allow me, then, sire, to intercede for her with your Majesty.", "pos": 348965}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let her humble herself, then, and come to me first.", "pos": 349148}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On the contrary, sire, set the example. You have committed the first wrong, since it was you who suspected the queen.", "pos": 349202}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What! I make the first advances?", "pos": 349322}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Never!", "pos": 349372}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sire, I entreat you to do so.", "pos": 349381}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Besides, in what manner can I make advances first?", "pos": 349413}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "By doing a thing which you know will be agreeable to her.", "pos": 349466}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 349526}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Give a ball; you know how much the queen loves dancing. I will answer for it, her resentment will not hold out against such an attention.", "pos": 349542}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Monsieur Cardinal, you know that I do not like worldly pleasures.", "pos": 349682}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The queen will only be the more grateful to you, as she knows your antipathy for that amusement; besides, it will be an opportunity for her to wear those beautiful diamonds which you gave her recently on her birthday and with which she has since had no occasion to adorn herself.", "pos": 349750}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We shall see, Monsieur Cardinal, we shall see,", "pos": 350032}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but upon my honor, you are too indulgent toward her.", "pos": 350294}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sire,", "pos": 350349}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "leave severity to your ministers. Clemency is a royal virtue; employ it, and you will find that you derive advantage therein.", "pos": 350376}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But,", "pos": 354309}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "sire, you do not tell me all that you have in your heart. What have I done, then? Let me know what crime I have committed. It is impossible that your Majesty can make all this ado about a letter written to my brother.", "pos": 354374}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Madame,", "pos": 354802}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "there will shortly be a ball at the Hôtel de Ville. I wish, in order to honor our worthy aldermen, you should appear in ceremonial costume, and above all, ornamented with the diamond studs which I gave you on your birthday. That is my answer.", "pos": 354835}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You hear, madame,", "pos": 355500}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You hear, madame?", "pos": 355617}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Yes, sire, I hear,", "pos": 355637}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You will appear at this ball?", "pos": 355679}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 355711}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "With those studs?", "pos": 355718}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 355738}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "It was the cardinal, then, who informed you of this fête?", "pos": 356292}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, madame,", "pos": 356352}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but why do you ask that?", "pos": 356396}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "It was he who told you to invite me to appear with these studs?", "pos": 356423}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is to say, madame—", "pos": 356489}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "It was he, sire, it was he!", "pos": 356515}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, and what does it signify whether it was he or I? Is there any crime in this request?", "pos": 356545}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "No, sire.", "pos": 356638}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you will appear?", "pos": 356650}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Yes, sire.", "pos": 356674}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is well,", "pos": 356687}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that is well; I count upon it.", "pos": 356728}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am lost,", "pos": 356883}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "lost!—for the cardinal knows all, and it is he who urges on the king, who as yet knows nothing but will soon know everything. I am lost! My God, my God, my God!", "pos": 356916}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Can I be of service to your Majesty?", "pos": 357636}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Oh, fear nothing, madame! I am your Majesty’s, body and soul, and however far I may be from you, however inferior may be my position, I believe I have discovered a means of extricating your Majesty from your trouble. You, oh, heaven, you! but look me in the face. I am betrayed on all sides. Can I trust in you?", "pos": 358260}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, madame!", "pos": 358682}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "upon my soul, I am ready to die for your Majesty!", "pos": 358741}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "yes, there are traitors here; but by the holy name of the Virgin, I swear that no one is more devoted to your Majesty than I am. Those studs which the king speaks of, you gave them to the Duke of Buckingham, did you not? Those studs were enclosed in a little rosewood box which he held under his arm? Am I deceived? Is it not so, madame?", "pos": 358932}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Oh, my God, my God!", "pos": 359272}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, those studs,", "pos": 359349}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "we must have them back again.", "pos": 359396}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Yes, without doubt, it is necessary, but how am I to act? How can it be effected?", "pos": 359428}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Someone must be sent to the duke.", "pos": 359531}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "But who, who? In whom can I trust?", "pos": 359567}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Place confidence in me, madame; do me that honor, my queen, and I will find a messenger.", "pos": 359604}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "But I must write.", "pos": 359695}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, yes; that is indispensable. Two words from the hand of your Majesty and your private seal.", "pos": 359715}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "But these two words would bring about my condemnation, divorce, exile!", "pos": 359812}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, if they fell into infamous hands. But I will answer for these two words being delivered to their address.", "pos": 359885}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Oh, my God! I must then place my life, my honor, my reputation, in your hands?", "pos": 359998}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, yes, madame, you must; and I will save them all.", "pos": 360079}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "But how? Tell me at least the means.", "pos": 360135}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My husband had been at liberty these two or three days. I have not yet had time to see him again. He is a worthy, honest man who entertains neither love nor hatred for anybody. He will do anything I wish. He will set out upon receiving an order from me, without knowing what he carries, and he will carry your Majesty’s letter, without even knowing it is from your Majesty, to the address which is on it.", "pos": 360174}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Do that, and you will have saved my life, you will have saved my honor!", "pos": 360776}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Do not exaggerate the service I have the happiness to render your Majesty. I have nothing to save for your Majesty; you are only the victim of perfidious plots.", "pos": 360863}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "That is true, that is true, my child, you are right.", "pos": 361026}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Give me then, that letter, madame; time presses.", "pos": 361099}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "And now, we are forgetting one very necessary thing.", "pos": 361312}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "What is that, madame?", "pos": 361385}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Money.", "pos": 361409}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, that is true, and I will confess to your Majesty that my husband—", "pos": 361442}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Your husband has none. Is that what you would say?", "pos": 361527}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "He has some, but he is very avaricious; that is his fault. Nevertheless, let not your Majesty be uneasy, we will find means.", "pos": 361580}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "And I have none, either. But wait a minute. Here, here is a ring of great value, as I have been assured. It came from my brother, the King of Spain. It is mine, and I am at liberty to dispose of it. Take this ring; raise money with it, and let your husband set out.", "pos": 361707}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "In an hour you shall be obeyed.", "pos": 362138}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "You see the address. To my Lord Duke of Buckingham, London.", "pos": 362172}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "The letter shall be given to himself.", "pos": 362321}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Generous girl!", "pos": 362361}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Let us talk a little,", "pos": 365772}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "How!", "pos": 365806}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, I have something of the highest importance to tell you.", "pos": 365841}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "True, and I have some questions sufficiently serious to put to you. Describe to me your abduction, I pray you.", "pos": 365904}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, that’s of no consequence just now,", "pos": 366028}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "And what does it concern, then—my captivity?", "pos": 366090}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "I heard of it the day it happened; but as you were not guilty of any crime, as you were not guilty of any intrigue, as you, in short, knew nothing that could compromise yourself or anybody else, I attached no more importance to that event than it merited.", "pos": 366137}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "You speak very much at your ease, madame. Do you know that I was plunged during a day and night in a dungeon of the Bastille?", "pos": 366395}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, a day and night soon pass away. Let us return to the object that brings me here.", "pos": 366593}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "What, that which brings you home to me? Is it not the desire of seeing a husband again from whom you have been separated for a week?", "pos": 366680}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, that first, and other things afterward.", "pos": 366854}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Speak.", "pos": 366901}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "It is a thing of the highest interest, and upon which our future fortune perhaps depends.", "pos": 366910}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "The complexion of our fortune has changed very much since I saw you, Madame Bonacieux, and I should not be astonished if in the course of a few months it were to excite the envy of many folks.", "pos": 367002}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, particularly if you follow the instructions I am about to give you.", "pos": 367197}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Me?", "pos": 367272}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, you. There is good and holy action to be performed, monsieur, and much money to be gained at the same time.", "pos": 367278}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Much money to be gained?", "pos": 367606}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, much.", "pos": 367669}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "About how much?", "pos": 367682}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "A thousand pistoles, perhaps.", "pos": 367700}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "What you demand of me is serious, then?", "pos": 367732}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "It is indeed.", "pos": 367774}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "What must be done?", "pos": 367790}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "You must go away immediately. I will give you a paper which you must not part with on any account, and which you will deliver into the proper hands.", "pos": 367811}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "And whither am I to go?", "pos": 367962}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "To London.", "pos": 367988}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "I go to London? Go to! You jest! I have no business in London.", "pos": 368001}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "But others wish that you should go there.", "pos": 368066}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "But who are those others? I warn you that I will never again work in the dark, and that I will know not only to what I expose myself, but for whom I expose myself.", "pos": 368110}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "An illustrious person sends you; an illustrious person awaits you. The recompense will exceed your expectations; that is all I promise you.", "pos": 368276}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "More intrigues! Nothing but intrigues! Thank you, madame, I am aware of them now; Monsieur Cardinal has enlightened me on that head.", "pos": 368418}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "The cardinal? Have you seen the cardinal?", "pos": 368553}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "He sent for me,", "pos": 368621}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "And you responded to his bidding, you imprudent man?", "pos": 368669}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Well, I can’t say I had much choice of going or not going, for I was taken to him between two guards. It is true also, that as I did not then know his Eminence, if I had been able to dispense with the visit, I should have been enchanted.", "pos": 368724}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "He ill-treated you, then; he threatened you?", "pos": 368964}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "He gave me his hand, and called me his friend. His friend! Do you hear that, madame? I am the friend of the great cardinal!", "pos": 369011}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Of the great cardinal!", "pos": 369137}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Perhaps you would contest his right to that title, madame?", "pos": 369162}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "I would contest nothing; but I tell you that the favor of a minister is ephemeral, and that a man must be mad to attach himself to a minister. There are powers above his which do not depend upon a man or the issue of an event; it is to these powers we should rally.", "pos": 369223}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "I am sorry for it, madame, but I acknowledge no other power but that of the great man whom I have the honor to serve.", "pos": 369491}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "You serve the cardinal?", "pos": 369611}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, madame; and as his servant, I will not allow you to be concerned in plots against the safety of the state, or to serve the intrigues of a woman who is not French and who has a Spanish heart. Fortunately we have the great cardinal; his vigilant eye watches over and penetrates to the bottom of the heart.", "pos": 369637}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Ah, you are a cardinalist, then, monsieur, are you? and you serve the party of those who maltreat your wife and insult your queen?", "pos": 370438}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Private interests are as nothing before the interests of all. I am for those who save the state,", "pos": 370584}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "And what do you know about the state you talk of? Be satisfied with being a plain, straightforward citizen, and turn to that side which offers the most advantages.", "pos": 370713}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Eh, eh! what do you think of this, Madame Preacher?", "pos": 370927}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Whence comes that money?", "pos": 371061}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "You do not guess?", "pos": 371088}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "From the cardinal?", "pos": 371108}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "From him, and from my friend the Comte de Rochefort.", "pos": 371129}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "The Comte de Rochefort! Why, it was he who carried me off!", "pos": 371184}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "That may be, madame!", "pos": 371245}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "And you receive silver from that man?", "pos": 371268}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Have you not said that that abduction was entirely political?", "pos": 371308}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Yes; but that abduction had for its object the betrayal of my mistress, to draw from me by torture confessions that might compromise the honor, and perhaps the life, of my august mistress.", "pos": 371372}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Madame, your august mistress is a perfidious Spaniard, and what the cardinal does is well done.", "pos": 371563}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Monsieur. I know you to be cowardly, avaricious, and foolish, but I never till now believed you infamous!", "pos": 371682}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Madame, madame, what do you say?", "pos": 371814}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "I say you are a miserable creature! You meddle with politics, do you—and still more, with cardinalist politics? Why, you sell yourself, body and soul, to the demon, the devil, for money!", "pos": 371954}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "No, to the cardinal.", "pos": 372237}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "It’s the same thing. Who calls Richelieu calls Satan.", "pos": 372260}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Hold your tongue, hold your tongue, madame! You may be overheard.", "pos": 372341}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, you are right; I should be ashamed for anyone to know your baseness.", "pos": 372409}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "But what do you require of me, then? Let us see.", "pos": 372485}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "I have told you. You must depart instantly, monsieur. You must accomplish loyally the commission with which I deign to charge you, and on that condition I pardon everything, I forget everything; and what is more. I restore my love. Come! Have you decided?", "pos": 372536}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "But, my dear love, reflect a little upon what you require of me. London is far from Paris, very far, and perhaps the commission with which you charge me is not without dangers?", "pos": 373027}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "What matters it, if you avoid them?", "pos": 373206}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Hold, Madame Bonacieux, hold! I positively refuse; intrigues terrify me. I have seen the Bastille. My! Whew! That’s a frightful place, that Bastille! Only to think of it makes my flesh crawl. They threatened me with torture. Do you know what torture is? Wooden points that they stick in between your legs till your bones stick out! No, positively I will not go. And, morbleu, why do you not go yourself? For in truth, I think I have hitherto been deceived in you. I really believe you are a man, and a violent one, too.", "pos": 373244}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "And you, you are a woman—a miserable woman, stupid and brutal. You are afraid, are you? Well, if you do not go this very instant, I will have you arrested by the queen’s orders, and I will have you placed in the Bastille which you dread so much.", "pos": 373785}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Have me arrested on the part of the queen, and I—I will appeal to his Eminence.", "pos": 374205}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Well, be it so! Perhaps, when all is considered, you are right. In the long run, a man knows more about politics than a woman, particularly such as, like you, Monsieur Bonacieux, have conversed with the cardinal. And yet it is very hard, that a man upon whose affection I thought I might depend, treats me thus unkindly and will not comply with any of my fancies.", "pos": 374550}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "That is because your fancies go too far, and I mistrust them.", "pos": 374941}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Well, I will give it up, then. It is well as it is; say no more about it.", "pos": 375041}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "At least you should tell me what I should have to do in London,", "pos": 375150}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "It is of no use for you to know anything about it. It was about one of those purchases that interest women—a purchase by which much might have been gained.", "pos": 375341}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Pardon me for quitting you, my dear Madame Bonacieux, but, not knowing you would come to see me, I had made an engagement with a friend. I shall soon return; and if you will wait only a few minutes for me, as soon as I have concluded my business with that friend, as it is growing late, I will come back and reconduct you to the Louvre.", "pos": 375869}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Thank you, monsieur, you are not brave enough to be of any use to me whatever. I shall return very safely to the Louvre all alone.", "pos": 376219}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "As you please, Madame Bonacieux. Shall I see you again soon?", "pos": 376378}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Next week I hope my duties will afford me a little liberty, and I will take advantage of it to come and put things in order here, as they must necessarily be much deranged.", "pos": 376463}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Very well; I shall expect you. You are not angry with me?", "pos": 376638}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Not the least in the world.", "pos": 376698}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Till then, then?", "pos": 376728}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Till then. Well, that imbecile lacked but one thing: to become a cardinalist. And I, who have answered for him to the queen—I, who have promised my poor mistress—ah, my God, my God! She will take me for one of those wretches with whom the palace swarms and who are placed about her as spies! Ah, Monsieur Bonacieux, I never did love you much, but now it is worse than ever. I hate you, and on my word you shall pay for this!", "pos": 376747}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dear Madame Bonacieux, open for me the little door on the alley, and I will come down to you.", "pos": 377472}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah, Madame, allow me to tell you that you have a bad sort of a husband.", "pos": 377600}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "You have, then, overheard our conversation?", "pos": 377752}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The whole.", "pos": 377870}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "But how, my God?", "pos": 377883}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "By a mode of proceeding known to myself, and by which I likewise overheard the more animated conversation which he had with the cardinal’s police.", "pos": 377902}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "And what did you understand by what we said?", "pos": 378051}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "A thousand things. In the first place, that, unfortunately, your husband is a simpleton and a fool; in the next place, you are in trouble, of which I am very glad, as it gives me an opportunity of placing myself at your service, and God knows I am ready to throw myself into the fire for you; finally, that the queen wants a brave, intelligent, devoted man to make a journey to London for her. I have at least two of the three qualities you stand in need of, and here I am.", "pos": 378098}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "And what guarantee will you give me, if I consent to confide this message to you?", "pos": 378666}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My love for you. Speak! Command! What is to be done?", "pos": 378763}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "My God, my God! ought I to confide such a secret to you, monsieur? You are almost a boy.", "pos": 378818}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I see that you require someone to answer for me?", "pos": 378937}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "I admit that would reassure me greatly.", "pos": 378988}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Do you know Athos?", "pos": 379030}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "No.", "pos": 379051}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Porthos?", "pos": 379057}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "No.", "pos": 379068}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Aramis?", "pos": 379074}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "No. Who are these gentleman?", "pos": 379084}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Three of the king’s Musketeers. Do you know Monsieur de Tréville, their captain?", "pos": 379115}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, yes, him! I know him; not personally, but from having heard the queen speak of him more than once as a brave and loyal gentleman.", "pos": 379198}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You do not fear lest he should betray you to the cardinal?", "pos": 379334}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, no, certainly not!", "pos": 379395}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, reveal your secret to him, and ask him whether, however important, however valuable, however terrible it may be, you may not confide it to me.", "pos": 379420}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "But this secret is not mine, and I cannot reveal it in this manner.", "pos": 379571}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You were about to confide it to Monsieur Bonacieux,", "pos": 379641}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "As one confides a letter to the hollow of a tree, to the wing of a pigeon, to the collar of a dog.", "pos": 379726}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And yet, me—you see plainly that I love you.", "pos": 379827}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "You say so.", "pos": 379874}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I am an honorable man.", "pos": 379888}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "You say so.", "pos": 379913}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I am a gallant fellow.", "pos": 379927}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "I believe it.", "pos": 379952}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I am brave.", "pos": 379968}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, I am sure of that!", "pos": 379982}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Then, put me to the proof.", "pos": 380007}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Listen. I yield to your protestations, I yield to your assurances. But I swear to you, before God who hears us, that if you betray me, and my enemies pardon me, I will kill myself, while accusing you of my death.", "pos": 380541}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And I—I swear to you before God, madame, that if I am taken while accomplishing the orders you give me, I will die sooner than do anything that may compromise anyone. I go. I go at once.", "pos": 380768}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "How, you will go! and your regiment, your captain?", "pos": 381312}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "By my soul, you had made me forget all that, dear Constance! Yes, you are right; a furlough is needful.", "pos": 381388}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Still another obstacle,", "pos": 381494}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "As to that, I shall surmount it, be assured.", "pos": 381608}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "How so?", "pos": 381655}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I will go this very evening to Tréville, whom I will request to ask this favor for me of his brother-in-law, Monsieur Dessessart.", "pos": 381665}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "But another thing.", "pos": 381797}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What?", "pos": 381818}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "You have, perhaps, no money?", "pos": 381894}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Perhaps is too much,", "pos": 381925}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "take this bag.", "pos": 382126}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The cardinal’s?", "pos": 382143}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "The cardinal’s. You see it makes a very respectable appearance.", "pos": 382343}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Pardieu, it will be a double amusing affair to save the queen with the cardinal’s money!", "pos": 382455}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "You are an amiable and charming young man. Be assured you will not find her Majesty ungrateful.", "pos": 382546}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, I am already grandly recompensed! I love you; you permit me to tell you that I do—that is already more happiness than I dared to hope.", "pos": 382667}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Silence! Someone is talking in the street.", "pos": 382828}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "It is the voice of—", "pos": 382914}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Of my husband! Yes, I recognize it!", "pos": 382936}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "He shall not come in before I am gone, and when I am gone, you can open to him.", "pos": 383022}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "But I ought to be gone, too. And the disappearance of his money; how am I to justify it if I am here?", "pos": 383115}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You are right; we must go out.", "pos": 383219}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Go out? How? He will see us if we go out.", "pos": 383252}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Then you must come up into my room.", "pos": 383296}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Ah, you speak that in a tone that frightens me!", "pos": 383357}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "With me you will be as safe as in a temple; I give you my word of a gentleman.", "pos": 383557}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Let us go. I place full confidence in you, my friend!", "pos": 383638}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "you will ruin us all!", "pos": 384266}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But I have sworn to kill that man!", "pos": 384290}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Your life is devoted from this moment, and does not belong to you. In the name of the queen I forbid you to throw yourself into any peril which is foreign to that of your journey.", "pos": 384344}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And do you command nothing in your own name?", "pos": 384526}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "In my name, in my name I beg you! But listen; they appear to be speaking of me.", "pos": 384616}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "She is gone, she must have returned to the Louvre.", "pos": 384886}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are sure", "pos": 384950}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "No, she is too superficial a woman.", "pos": 385055}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is the young Guardsman at home?", "pos": 385142}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "I do not think he is; as you see, his shutter is closed, and you can see no light shine through the chinks of the shutters.", "pos": 385176}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All the same, it is well to be certain.", "pos": 385302}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "By knocking at his door. Go.", "pos": 385354}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "I will ask his servant.", "pos": 385385}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There is nobody within,", "pos": 385848}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Never mind. Let us return to your apartment. We shall be safer there than in the doorway.", "pos": 385890}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Ah, my God! we shall hear no more.", "pos": 386010}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "On the contrary, we shall hear better.", "pos": 386047}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are sure there is nobody there?", "pos": 386323}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "I will answer for it,", "pos": 386380}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And you think that your wife—", "pos": 386420}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Has returned to the Louvre.", "pos": 386452}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Without speaking to anyone but yourself?", "pos": 386482}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "I am sure of it.", "pos": 386525}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is an important point, do you understand?", "pos": 386544}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Then the news I brought you is of value?", "pos": 386593}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The greatest, my dear Bonacieux; I don’t conceal this from you.", "pos": 386636}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Then the cardinal will be pleased with me?", "pos": 386702}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have no doubt of it.", "pos": 386747}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "The great cardinal!", "pos": 386772}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are you sure, in her conversation with you, that your wife mentioned no names?", "pos": 386794}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "I think not.", "pos": 386875}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She did not name Madame de Chevreuse, the Duke of Buckingham, or Madame de Vernet?", "pos": 386890}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "No; she only told me she wished to send me to London to serve the interests of an illustrious personage.", "pos": 386975}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The traitor!", "pos": 387082}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Silence!", "pos": 387122}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Never mind,", "pos": 387220}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you were a fool not to have pretended to accept the mission. You would then be in present possession of the letter. The state, which is now threatened, would be safe, and you—", "pos": 387266}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "And I?", "pos": 387444}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well you—the cardinal would have given you letters of nobility.", "pos": 387453}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Did he tell you so?", "pos": 387519}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, I know that he meant to afford you that agreeable surprise.", "pos": 387541}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Be satisfied, my wife adores me, and there is yet time.", "pos": 387608}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The ninny!", "pos": 387687}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Silence!", "pos": 387725}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How is there still time?", "pos": 387785}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "I go to the Louvre; I ask for Mme. Bonacieux; I say that I have reflected; I renew the affair; I obtain the letter, and I run directly to the cardinal.", "pos": 387840}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, go quickly! I will return soon to learn the result of your trip.", "pos": 387994}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Infamous!", "pos": 388090}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Silence!", "pos": 388163}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "he will rouse the whole quarter. Now he is gone, it is your turn to get out. Courage, my friend, but above all, prudence, and think what you owe to the queen.", "pos": 388447}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "To her and to you! Be satisfied, beautiful Constance. I shall become worthy of her gratitude; but shall I likewise return worthy of your love?", "pos": 388951}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, my God, protect the queen, protect me!", "pos": 389500}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Did you ask for me, my good friend?", "pos": 391002}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Yes, monsieur, and you will pardon me, I hope, for having disturbed you when you know the importance of my business. Speak, then, I am all attention.", "pos": 391061}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "It concerns nothing less, than the honor, perhaps the life of the queen.", "pos": 391254}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "What did you say?", "pos": 391348}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I say, monsieur, that chance has rendered me master of a secret—", "pos": 391493}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Which you will guard, I hope, young man, as your life.", "pos": 391560}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But which I must impart to you, monsieur, for you alone can assist me in the mission I have just received from her Majesty.", "pos": 391617}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Is this secret your own?", "pos": 391743}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, monsieur; it is her Majesty’s.", "pos": 391770}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Are you authorized by her Majesty to communicate it to me?", "pos": 391807}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, monsieur, for, on the contrary, I am desired to preserve the profoundest mystery.", "pos": 391868}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Why, then, are you about to betray it to me?", "pos": 391956}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Because, as I said, without you I can do nothing; and I am afraid you will refuse me the favor I come to ask if you do not know to what end I ask it.", "pos": 392003}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Keep your secret, young man, and tell me what you wish.", "pos": 392155}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I wish you to obtain for me, from Monsieur Dessessart, leave of absence for fifteen days.", "pos": 392213}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "When?", "pos": 392305}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "This very night.", "pos": 392313}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "You leave Paris?", "pos": 392332}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I am going on a mission.", "pos": 392351}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "May you tell me whither?", "pos": 392378}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "To London.", "pos": 392405}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Has anyone an interest in preventing your arrival there?", "pos": 392418}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The cardinal, I believe, would give the world to prevent my success.", "pos": 392477}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "And you are going alone?", "pos": 392548}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I am going alone.", "pos": 392575}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "In that case you will not get beyond Bondy. I tell you so, by the faith of de Tréville.", "pos": 392595}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "How so?", "pos": 392685}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "You will be assassinated.", "pos": 392695}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And I shall die in the performance of my duty.", "pos": 392723}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "But your mission will not be accomplished.", "pos": 392772}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That is true,", "pos": 392817}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Believe me, in enterprises of this kind, in order that one may arrive, four must set out.", "pos": 392875}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah, you are right, monsieur, but you know Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and you know if I can dispose of them.", "pos": 392967}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Without confiding to them the secret which I am not willing to know?", "pos": 393097}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "We are sworn, once for all, to implicit confidence and devotedness against all proof. Besides, you can tell them that you have full confidence in me, and they will not be more incredulous than you.", "pos": 393168}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "I can send to each of them leave of absence for fifteen days, that is all—to Athos, whose wound still makes him suffer, to go to the waters of Forges; to Porthos and Aramis to accompany their friend, whom they are not willing to abandon in such a painful condition. Sending their leave of absence will be proof enough that I authorize their journey.", "pos": 393368}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Thanks, monsieur. You are a hundred times too good.", "pos": 393720}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Begone, then, find them instantly, and let all be done tonight! Ha! But first write your request to Dessessart. Perhaps you had a spy at your heels; and your visit, if it should ever be known to the cardinal, will thus seem legitimate. Have the goodness to send mine to Athos’s residence. I should dread some disagreeable encounter if I were to go home. Be easy. Adieu, and a prosperous voyage. A propos,", "pos": 393774}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Have you any money?", "pos": 394444}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Enough?", "pos": 394514}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Three hundred pistoles.", "pos": 394546}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Oh, plenty! That would carry you to the end of the world. Begone, then!", "pos": 394572}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 395631}
{"speaker": "Lackey", "text": "The leave of absence Monsieur has asked for,", "pos": 395661}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "For me! I have asked for no leave of absence.", "pos": 395728}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Hold your tongue and take it! And you, my friend, there is a demipistole for your trouble; you will tell Monsieur de Tréville that Monsieur Aramis is very much obliged to him. Go.", "pos": 395776}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "What does all this mean?", "pos": 396022}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Pack up all you want for a journey of a fortnight, and follow me. What is become of her? I suppose you mean—", "pos": 396063}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Become of whom?", "pos": 396267}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The woman who was here—the woman with the embroidered handkerchief.", "pos": 396301}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Who told you there was a woman here? I saw her. And you know who she is?", "pos": 396371}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I believe I can guess, at least.", "pos": 396493}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Listen! Since you appear to know so many things, can you tell me what is become of that woman?", "pos": 396543}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I presume that she has returned to Tours.", "pos": 396639}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "To Tours? Yes, that may be. You evidently know her. But why did she return to Tours without telling me anything?", "pos": 396683}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Because she was in fear of being arrested.", "pos": 396798}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Why has she not written to me, then?", "pos": 396843}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Because she was afraid of compromising you.", "pos": 396882}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "D’Artagnan, you restore me to life! I fancied myself despised, betrayed. I was so delighted to see her again! I could not have believed she would risk her liberty for me, and yet for what other cause could she have returned to Paris?", "pos": 396928}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "For the cause which today takes us to England.", "pos": 397180}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "And what is this cause?", "pos": 397229}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, you’ll know it someday, Aramis; but at present I must imitate the discretion of ‘the doctor’s niece.’", "pos": 397272}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Well, then, since she has left Paris, and you are sure of it, D’Artagnan, nothing prevents me, and I am ready to follow you. You say we are going—", "pos": 397467}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "To see Athos now, and if you will come thither, I beg you to make haste, for we have lost much time already. A propos, inform Bazin.", "pos": 397616}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Will Bazin go with us?", "pos": 397751}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Perhaps so. At all events, it is best that he should follow us to Athos’s.", "pos": 397790}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Let us go then,", "pos": 397958}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "You have not spoken of this lady?", "pos": 398475}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "To nobody in the world.", "pos": 398520}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Not even to Athos or Porthos?", "pos": 398546}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I have not breathed a syllable to them.", "pos": 398578}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Good enough!", "pos": 398620}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Can you explain to me what signify this leave of absence and this letter, which I have just received?", "pos": 398851}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, this leave of absence and that letter mean that you must follow me, Athos.", "pos": 399245}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "To the waters of Forges?", "pos": 399328}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "There or elsewhere.", "pos": 399355}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "In the king’s service?", "pos": 399377}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Either the king’s or the queen’s. Are we not their Majesties’ servants?", "pos": 399402}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Pardieu! here is a strange thing! Since when, I wonder, in the Musketeers, did they grant men leave of absence without their asking for it?", "pos": 399519}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Since they have friends who ask it for them.", "pos": 399681}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ah, ah! it appears there’s something fresh here.", "pos": 399744}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Yes, we are going—", "pos": 399795}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "To what country? My faith! I don’t know much about it,", "pos": 399829}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Ask D’Artagnan.", "pos": 399918}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "To London, gentlemen. To London, gentlemen,", "pos": 399936}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "To London! and what the devil are we going to do in London?", "pos": 399994}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That is what I am not at liberty to tell you, gentlemen; you must trust to me.", "pos": 400056}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "But in order to go to London, money is needed, and I have none.", "pos": 400137}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Nor I.", "pos": 400220}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I have. I have, There are in this bag three hundred pistoles. Let each take seventy-five; that is enough to take us to London and back. Besides, make yourselves easy; we shall not all arrive at London.", "pos": 400263}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Why so?", "pos": 400552}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Because, in all probability, some one of us will be left on the road.", "pos": 400562}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Is this, then, a campaign upon which we are now entering?", "pos": 400634}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "One of a most dangerous kind, I give you notice.", "pos": 400694}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ah! But if we do risk being killed, at least I should like to know what for.", "pos": 400745}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You would be all the wiser.", "pos": 400840}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I am somewhat of Porthos’s opinion.", "pos": 400906}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Is the king accustomed to give you such reasons? No. He says to you jauntily, ‘Gentlemen, there is fighting going on in Gascony or in Flanders; go and fight,’ and you go there. Why? You need give yourselves no more uneasiness about this.", "pos": 400944}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "D’Artagnan is right; here are our three leaves of absence which came from Monsieur de Tréville, and here are three hundred pistoles which came from I don’t know where. So let us go and get killed where we are told to go. Is life worth the trouble of so many questions? D’Artagnan, I am ready to follow you.", "pos": 401198}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "And I also.", "pos": 401507}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "And I also. And, indeed, I am not sorry to quit Paris; I had need of distraction.", "pos": 401550}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, you will have distractions enough, gentlemen, be assured.", "pos": 401634}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "And, now, when are we to go?", "pos": 401717}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Immediately; we have not a minute to lose.", "pos": 401783}
{"speaker": "All four young men", "text": "Hello, Grimaud! Planchet! Mousqueton! Bazin! clean my boots, and fetch the horses from the hôtel.", "pos": 401828}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Where do we go first?", "pos": 402217}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "To Calais; that is the most direct line to London.", "pos": 402260}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Well, this is my advice— Speak! Four men traveling together would be suspected. D’Artagnan will give each of us his instructions. I will go by the way of Boulogne to clear the way; Athos will set out two hours after, by that of Amiens; Aramis will follow us by that of Noyon; as to D’Artagnan, he will go by what route he thinks is best, in Planchet’s clothes, while Planchet will follow us like D’Artagnan, in the uniform of the Guards.", "pos": 402329}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "my opinion is that it is not proper to allow lackeys to have anything to do in such an affair. A secret may, by chance, be betrayed by gentlemen; but it is almost always sold by lackeys.", "pos": 402798}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Porthos’s plan appears to me to be impracticable, inasmuch as I am myself ignorant of what instructions I can give you. I am the bearer of a letter, that is all. I have not, and I cannot make three copies of that letter, because it is sealed. We must, then, as it appears to me, travel in company. This letter is here, in this pocket, If I should be killed, one of you must take it, and continue the route; if he be killed, it will be another’s turn, and so on—provided a single one arrives, that is all that is required.", "pos": 402987}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Bravo, D’Artagnan, your opinion is mine, Besides, we must be consistent; I am going to take the waters, you will accompany me. Instead of taking the waters of Forges, I go and take sea waters; I am free to do so. If anyone wishes to stop us, I will show Monsieur de Tréville’s letter, and you will show your leaves of absence. If we are attacked, we will defend ourselves; if we are tried, we will stoutly maintain that we were only anxious to dip ourselves a certain number of times in the sea. They would have an easy bargain of four isolated men; whereas four men together make a troop. We will arm our four lackeys with pistols and musketoons; if they send an army out against us, we will give battle, and the survivor, as D’Artagnan says, will carry the letter.", "pos": 403589}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Well said, you don’t often speak, Athos, but when you do speak, it is like St. John of the Golden Mouth. I agree to Athos’s plan. And you, Porthos?", "pos": 404389}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "I agree to it, too, if D’Artagnan approves of it. D’Artagnan, being the bearer of the letter, is naturally the head of the enterprise; let him decide, and we will execute.", "pos": 404555}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, I decide that we should adopt Athos’s plan, and that we set off in half an hour.", "pos": 404748}
{"speaker": "All three Musketeers", "text": "Agreed!", "pos": 404837}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Do you know what has become of Athos?", "pos": 414728}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Ah, monsieur. I saw one fall at each of his two shots, and he appeared to me, through the glass door, to be fighting with his sword with the others.", "pos": 414819}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Brave Athos! and to think that we are compelled to leave him; maybe the same fate awaits us two paces hence. Forward, Planchet, forward! You are a brave fellow.", "pos": 414987}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "As I told you, monsieur. Picards are found out by being used. Besides, I am here in my own country, and that excites me.", "pos": 415173}
{"speaker": "captain of a vessel", "text": "Nothing would be more easy, but this morning came an order to let no one leave without express permission from the cardinal.", "pos": 416324}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "I have that permission, here it is.", "pos": 416501}
{"speaker": "the shipmaster", "text": "Have it examined by the governor of the port, and give me the preference.", "pos": 416596}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "Where shall I find the governor?", "pos": 416695}
{"speaker": "the shipmaster", "text": "At his country house.", "pos": 416730}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "And that is situated?", "pos": 416754}
{"speaker": "the shipmaster", "text": "At a quarter of a league from the city. Look, you may see it from here—at the foot of that little hill, that slated roof.", "pos": 416778}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "Very well,", "pos": 416902}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Monsieur, you appear to be in great haste?", "pos": 417182}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "No one can be more so, monsieur.", "pos": 417227}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I am sorry for that, for as I am in great haste likewise, I wish to beg you to render me a service.", "pos": 417262}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "What?", "pos": 417383}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "To let me sail first.", "pos": 417391}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "That’s impossible. I have traveled sixty leagues in forty hours, and by tomorrow at midday I must be in London.", "pos": 417415}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I have performed that same distance in forty hours, and by ten o’clock in the morning I must be in London.", "pos": 417551}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "Very sorry, monsieur; but I was here first, and will not sail second.", "pos": 417660}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I am sorry, too, monsieur; but I arrived second, and must sail first.", "pos": 417732}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "The king’s service!", "pos": 417804}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My own service!", "pos": 417846}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "But this is a needless quarrel you seek with me, as it seems to me.", "pos": 417881}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Parbleu! What do you desire it to be?", "pos": 417951}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "What do you want?", "pos": 417991}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Would you like to know?", "pos": 418011}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 418037}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, then, I wish that order of which you are bearer, seeing that I have not one of my own and must have one.", "pos": 418050}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "You jest, I presume.", "pos": 418163}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I never jest.", "pos": 418186}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "Let me pass!", "pos": 418202}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You shall not pass.", "pos": 418217}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "My brave young man, I will blow out your brains. Hola, Lubin, my pistols!", "pos": 418239}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Planchet, take care of the lackey; I will manage the master.", "pos": 418315}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Go on with your affair, monsieur. I have finished mine.", "pos": 418575}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "One for Athos, one for Porthos; and one for Aramis!", "pos": 418842}
{"speaker": "the wounded man", "text": "One for you!", "pos": 419215}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And one for me—the best for last!", "pos": 419230}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Monsieur, as long as I hold him in this manner, he can’t cry, I’ll be bound; but as soon as I let go he will howl again. I know him for a Norman, and Normans are obstinate.", "pos": 420078}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Stay!", "pos": 420332}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Now, let us bind him to a tree.", "pos": 420405}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And now, to the Governor’s.", "pos": 420737}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "But you are wounded, it seems,", "pos": 420767}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, that’s nothing! Let us attend to what is more pressing first, and then we will attend to my wound; besides, it does not seem very dangerous.", "pos": 420815}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "You have an order signed by the cardinal? Ah, ah! It is quite regular and explicit,", "pos": 421128}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Most likely. I am one of his most faithful servants.", "pos": 421305}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "It appears that his Eminence is anxious to prevent someone from crossing to England?", "pos": 421379}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes; a certain D’Artagnan, a Béarnese gentleman who left Paris in company with three of his friends, with the intention of going to London.", "pos": 421466}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Do you know him personally?", "pos": 421608}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Whom?", "pos": 421658}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "This D’Artagnan.", "pos": 421666}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Perfectly well.", "pos": 421685}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Describe him to me, then.", "pos": 421703}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Nothing more easy. And D’Artagnan gave, feature for feature, a description of the Comte de Wardes.", "pos": 421731}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Is he accompanied?", "pos": 421832}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes; by a lackey named Lubin.", "pos": 421853}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "We will keep a sharp lookout for them; and if we lay hands on them his Eminence may be assured they will be reconducted to Paris under a good escort.", "pos": 421885}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And by doing so, Monsieur the Governor, you will deserve well of the cardinal.", "pos": 422037}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Shall you see him on your return, Monsieur Count?", "pos": 422137}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Without a doubt.", "pos": 422189}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Tell him, I beg you, that I am his humble servant.", "pos": 422208}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I will not fail.", "pos": 422261}
{"speaker": "Captain", "text": "Well?", "pos": 422700}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Here is my pass countersigned,", "pos": 422743}
{"speaker": "Captain", "text": "He will not go today,", "pos": 422820}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "but here, I’ll pay you for us two.", "pos": 422861}
{"speaker": "Shipmaster", "text": "In that case let us go,", "pos": 422898}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Let us go,", "pos": 422945}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Here I am at last!", "pos": 423925}
{"speaker": "Whom must I announce to my Lord Duke?", "text": "asked Patrick", "pos": 425270}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The young man who one evening sought a quarrel with him on the Pont Neuf, opposite the Samaritaine. You will find that it is as good as another.", "pos": 425286}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "No misfortune has happened to the queen? I believe not; nevertheless I believe she runs some great peril from which your Grace alone can extricate her. I! What is it? I should be too happy to be of any service to her. Speak, speak!", "pos": 425947}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Take this letter,", "pos": 426297}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "This letter! From whom comes this letter?", "pos": 426334}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "From her Majesty, as I think.", "pos": 426378}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "From her Majesty! What is this rent?", "pos": 426410}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah, I did not see that; it was the sword of the Comte de Wardes which made that hole, when he gave me a good thrust in the breast.", "pos": 426635}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "You are wounded?", "pos": 426768}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, nothing but a scratch,", "pos": 426830}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Just heaven, what have I read? Patrick, remain here, or rather join the king, wherever he may be, and tell his Majesty that I humbly beg him to excuse me, but an affair of the greatest importance recalls me to London. Come, monsieur, come!", "pos": 426876}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "There,", "pos": 430904}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "What is the matter? All is lost! two of the studs are wanting, there are only ten. They have been stolen, and it is the cardinal who has dealt this blow. Hold; see! The ribbons which held them have been cut with scissors. Wait, wait! The only time I have worn these studs was at a ball given by the king eight days ago at Windsor. The Comtesse de Winter, with whom I had quarreled, became reconciled to me at that ball. That reconciliation was nothing but the vengeance of a jealous woman. I have never seen her from that day. The woman is an agent of the cardinal. He has agents, then, throughout the world? Oh, yes. Yes, he is a terrible antagonist. But when is this ball to take place?", "pos": 431329}
{"speaker": "Duke", "text": "Monday next. Monday next! Still five days before us. That’s more time than we want. Patrick! Patrick! My jeweler and my secretary.", "pos": 432434}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "go instantly to the Lord Chancellor, and tell him that I charge him with the execution of these orders. I wish them to be promulgated immediately.", "pos": 433012}
{"speaker": "Secretary", "text": "But, my Lord, if the Lord Chancellor interrogates me upon the motives which may have led your Grace to adopt such an extraordinary measure, what shall I reply?", "pos": 433174}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "That such is my pleasure, and that I answer for my will to no man.", "pos": 433336}
{"speaker": "Secretary", "text": "Will that be the answer, which he must transmit to his Majesty if, by chance, his Majesty should have the curiosity to know why no vessel is to leave any of the ports of Great Britain?", "pos": 433405}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "You are right, Mr. Jackson. He will say, in that case, to the king that I am determined on war, and that this measure is my first act of hostility against France. We are safe on that side. If the studs are not yet gone to Paris, they will not arrive till after you. Yes, yes, Anne of Austria is my true queen. Upon a word from her, I would betray my country, I would betray my king, I would betray my God. She asked me not to send the Protestants of La Rochelle the assistance I promised them; I have not done so. I broke my word, it is true; but what signifies that? I obeyed my love; and have I not been richly paid for that obedience? It was to that obedience I owe her portrait. Mr. O’Reilly, look at these diamond studs, and tell me what they are worth apiece.", "pos": 433626}
{"speaker": "O’Reilly", "text": "Fifteen hundred pistoles each, my Lord.", "pos": 435500}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "How many days would it require to make two studs exactly like them? You see there are two wanting.", "pos": 435542}
{"speaker": "O’Reilly", "text": "Eight days, my Lord.", "pos": 435643}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "I will give you three thousand pistoles apiece if I can have them by the day after tomorrow.", "pos": 435666}
{"speaker": "O’Reilly", "text": "My Lord, they shall be yours.", "pos": 435761}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "You are a jewel of a man, Mr. O’Reilly; but that is not all. These studs cannot be trusted to anybody; it must be done in the palace.", "pos": 435793}
{"speaker": "O’Reilly", "text": "Impossible, my Lord! There is no one but myself can so execute them that one cannot tell the new from the old.", "pos": 435929}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Therefore, my dear Mr. O’Reilly, you are my prisoner. And if you wish ever to leave my palace, you cannot; so make the best of it. Name to me such of your workmen as you need, and point out the tools they must bring.", "pos": 436042}
{"speaker": "O’Reilly", "text": "May I be permitted to inform my wife?", "pos": 436367}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Oh, you may even see her if you like, my dear Mr. O’Reilly. Your captivity shall be mild, be assured; and as every inconvenience deserves its indemnification, here is, in addition to the price of the studs, an order for a thousand pistoles, to make you forget the annoyance I cause you.", "pos": 436416}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Now, my young friend, England is all our own. What do you wish for? What do you desire?", "pos": 437524}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "A bed, my Lord,", "pos": 437625}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Here, are the diamond studs that you came to bring; and be my witness that I have done all that human power could do.", "pos": 438494}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Be satisfied, my Lord, I will tell all that I have seen. But does your Grace mean to give me the studs without the casket?", "pos": 438614}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "The casket would encumber you. Besides, the casket is the more precious from being all that is left to me. You will say that I keep it.", "pos": 438739}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I will perform your commission, word for word, my Lord.", "pos": 438877}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "And now, how shall I ever acquit myself of the debt I owe you?", "pos": 438993}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Let us understand each other, my Lord, and let us make things clear beforehand in order that there may be no mistake. I am in the service of the King and Queen of France, and form part of the company of Monsieur Dessessart, who, as well as his brother-in-law, Monsieur de Tréville, is particularly attached to their Majesties. What I have done, then, has been for the queen, and not at all for your Grace. And still further, it is very probable I should not have done anything of this, if it had not been to make myself agreeable to someone who is my lady, as the queen is yours.", "pos": 439315}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "and I even believe that I know that other person; it is—", "pos": 439950}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My Lord, I have not named her!", "pos": 440009}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "and it is to this person I am bound to discharge my debt of gratitude.", "pos": 440108}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You have said, my Lord; for truly, at this moment when there is question of war, I confess to you that I see nothing in your Grace but an Englishman, and consequently an enemy whom I should have much greater pleasure in meeting on the field of battle than in the park at Windsor or the corridors of the Louvre—all which, however, will not prevent me from executing to the very point my commission or from laying down my life, if there be need of it, to accomplish it; but I repeat it to your Grace, without your having personally on that account more to thank me for in this second interview than for what I did for you in the first.", "pos": 440181}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Proud as a Scotsman,", "pos": 440826}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Proud as a Gascon,", "pos": 440896}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Well, are you going away in that manner? Where, and how?", "pos": 441025}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That’s true!", "pos": 441084}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Fore Gad, these Frenchmen have no consideration!", "pos": 441099}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I had forgotten that England was an island, and that you were the king of it.", "pos": 441150}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Go to the riverside, ask for the brig Sund, and give this letter to the captain; he will convey you to a little port, where certainly you are not expected, and which is ordinarily only frequented by fishermen. St. Valery; but listen. When you have arrived there you will go to a mean tavern, without a name and without a sign—a mere fisherman’s hut. You cannot be mistaken; there is but one. You will ask for the host, and will repeat to him the word ‘Forward!’ In French, En avant. It is the password. He will give you a horse all saddled, and will point out to you the road you ought to take. You will find, in the same way, four relays on your route. If you will give at each of these relays your address in Paris, the four horses will follow you thither. You already know two of them, and you appeared to appreciate them like a judge. They were those we rode on; and you may rely upon me for the others not being inferior to them. These horses are equipped for the field. However proud you may be, you will not refuse to accept one of them, and to request your three companions to accept the others—that is, in order to make war against us. Besides, the end justified the means, as you Frenchmen say, does it not?", "pos": 441230}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, my Lord, I accept them,", "pos": 442509}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Well, now, your hand, young man. Perhaps we shall soon meet on the field of battle; but in the meantime we shall part good friends, I hope.", "pos": 442623}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, my Lord; but with the hope of soon becoming enemies.", "pos": 442765}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Be satisfied; I promise you that.", "pos": 442825}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I depend upon your word, my Lord.", "pos": 442861}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I want to know the route I am to follow,", "pos": 444177}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Go from hence to Blangy, and from Blangy to Neufchâtel. At Neufchâtel, go to the tavern of the Golden Harrow, give the password to the landlord, and you will find, as you have here, a horse ready saddled.", "pos": 444237}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Have I anything to pay?", "pos": 444444}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Everything is paid. Amen!", "pos": 444491}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Which route must I take?", "pos": 445069}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "That of Rouen; but you will leave the city on your right. You must stop at the little village of Eccuis, in which there is but one tavern—the Shield of France. Don’t condemn it from appearances; you will find a horse in the stables quite as good as this. Exactly.", "pos": 445130}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Adieu, master!", "pos": 445419}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "A good journey, gentlemen! Do you want anything?", "pos": 445436}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Why, madame, have you not thought proper to wear your diamond studs, when you know it would give me so much gratification?", "pos": 450916}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Sire, because, in the midst of such a crowd as this, I feared some accident might happen to them.", "pos": 451150}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "And you were wrong, madame. If I made you that present it was that you might adorn yourself therewith. I tell you that you were wrong.", "pos": 451295}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "Sire. I can send for them to the Louvre, where they are, and thus your Majesty’s wishes will be complied with.", "pos": 451567}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "Do so, madame, do so, and that at once; for within an hour the ballet will commence.", "pos": 451698}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "What does this mean?", "pos": 452658}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Nothing, only, if the queen has the studs, which I very much doubt, count them, sire, and if you only find ten, ask her Majesty who can have stolen from her the two studs that are here.", "pos": 452710}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "I thank you, madame, for the deference you have shown to my wishes, but I think you want two of the studs, and I bring them back to you.", "pos": 454425}
{"speaker": "The young queen", "text": "How, sire? you are giving me, then, two more: I shall have fourteen.", "pos": 454659}
{"speaker": "Louis XIII", "text": "What does this mean, Monsieur Cardinal?", "pos": 454893}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "This means, sire, that I was desirous of presenting her Majesty with these two studs, and that not daring to offer them myself, I adopted this means of inducing her to accept them.", "pos": 454968}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "And I am the more grateful to your Eminence, from being certain that these two studs alone have cost you as much as all the others cost his Majesty.", "pos": 455175}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You at last?", "pos": 459964}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Silence! silence, and go the same way you came!", "pos": 459997}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But where and when shall I see you again?", "pos": 460103}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "A note which you will find at home will tell you. Begone, begone!", "pos": 460165}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Has anyone brought a letter for me?", "pos": 461147}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "No one has brought a letter, monsieur, but one has come of itself.", "pos": 461212}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What do you mean, blockhead?", "pos": 461301}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "I mean to say that when I came in, although I had the key of your apartment in my pocket, and that key had never quit me, I found a letter on the green table cover in your bedroom.", "pos": 461332}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And where is that letter?", "pos": 461515}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "I left it where I found it, monsieur. It is not natural for letters to enter people’s houses in this manner. If the window had been open or even ajar, I should think nothing of it; but, no—all was hermetically sealed. Beware, monsieur; there is certainly some magic underneath.", "pos": 461543}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "There are many thanks to be offered to you, and to be transmitted to you. Be this evening about ten o’clock at St. Cloud, in front of the pavilion which stands at the corner of the house of M. d’Estrées.—C.B.", "pos": 461963}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Well, monsieur, did I not guess truly? Is it not some bad affair?", "pos": 462554}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You are mistaken, Planchet, and as a proof, there is a crown to drink my health.", "pos": 462699}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "I am much obliged to Monsieur for the crown he has given me, and I promise him to follow his instructions exactly; but it is not the less true that letters which come in this way into shut-up houses—", "pos": 462804}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Fall from heaven, my friend, fall from heaven.", "pos": 463006}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Then Monsieur is satisfied?", "pos": 463055}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My dear Planchet, I am the happiest of men!", "pos": 463101}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "And I may profit by Monsieur’s happiness, and go to bed?", "pos": 463147}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, go.", "pos": 463206}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "May the blessings of heaven fall upon Monsieur! But it is not the less true that that letter—", "pos": 463217}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Planchet. I am going out for all day, perhaps. You are, therefore, your own master till seven o’clock in the evening; but at seven o’clock you must hold yourself in readiness with two horses.", "pos": 463696}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "There! We are going again, it appears, to have our hides pierced in all sorts of ways.", "pos": 464040}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You will take your musketoon and your pistols.", "pos": 464146}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "There, now! Didn’t I say so? I was sure of it—the cursed letter!", "pos": 464195}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Don’t be afraid, you idiot; there is nothing in hand but a party of pleasure.", "pos": 464280}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Ah, like the charming journey the other day, when it rained bullets and produced a crop of steel traps!", "pos": 464360}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, if you are really afraid, Monsieur Planchet. I will go without you. I prefer traveling alone to having a companion who entertains the least fear.", "pos": 464466}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Monsieur does me wrong. I thought he had seen me at work.", "pos": 464642}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, but I thought perhaps you had worn out all your courage the first time.", "pos": 464719}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Monsieur shall see that upon occasion I have some left; only I beg Monsieur not to be too prodigal of it if he wishes it to last long.", "pos": 464798}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Do you believe you have still a certain amount of it to expend this evening?", "pos": 464935}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "I hope so, monsieur.", "pos": 465014}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, then, I count on you.", "pos": 465037}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "At the appointed hour I shall be ready; only I believed that Monsieur had but one horse in the Guard stables.", "pos": 465067}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Perhaps there is but one at this moment; but by this evening there will be four.", "pos": 465179}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "It appears that our journey was a remounting journey, then?", "pos": 465262}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Exactly so,", "pos": 465324}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And Madame Bonacieux, do you know who carried her off?—For I do not forget that I owe to that unpleasant circumstance the good fortune of having made your acquaintance.", "pos": 466478}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Ah! they took good care not to tell me that; and my wife, on her part, has sworn to me by all that’s sacred that she does not know. But you, what has become of you all these days? I have not seen you nor your friends, and I don’t think you could gather all that dust that I saw Planchet brush off your boots yesterday from the pavement of Paris.", "pos": 466649}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You are right, my dear Monsieur Bonacieux, my friends and I have been on a little journey.", "pos": 467079}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Far from here?", "pos": 467172}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, Lord, no! About forty leagues only. We went to take Monsieur Athos to the waters of Forges, where my friends still remain.", "pos": 467189}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "And you have returned, have you not? A handsome young fellow like you does not obtain long leaves of absence from his mistress; and we were impatiently waited for at Paris, were we not?", "pos": 467318}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My faith! I confess it, and so much more the readily, my dear Bonacieux, as I see there is no concealing anything from you. Yes, I was expected, and very impatiently, I acknowledge.", "pos": 467572}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "And we are going to be recompensed for our diligence?", "pos": 467889}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah, may you be a true prophet!", "pos": 468178}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "No; what I say, is only that I may know whether I am delaying you.", "pos": 468238}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Why that question, my dear host? Do you intend to sit up for me?", "pos": 468328}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "No; but since my arrest and the robbery that was committed in my house, I am alarmed every time I hear a door open, particularly in the night. What the deuce can you expect? I am no swordsman.", "pos": 468415}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, don’t be alarmed if I return at one, two or three o’clock in the morning; indeed, do not be alarmed if I do not come at all.", "pos": 468610}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Nothing, nothing. Since my misfortunes I have been subject to faintnesses, which seize me all at once, and I have just felt a cold shiver. Pay no attention to it; you have nothing to occupy yourself with but being happy.", "pos": 468859}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Then I have full occupation, for I am so.", "pos": 469103}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Not yet; wait a little! This evening, you said.", "pos": 469147}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, this evening will come, thank God! And perhaps you look for it with as much impatience as I do; perhaps this evening Madame Bonacieux will visit the conjugal domicile.", "pos": 469197}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Madame Bonacieux is not at liberty this evening, she is detained at the Louvre this evening by her duties.", "pos": 469373}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "So much the worse for you, my dear host, so much the worse! When I am happy, I wish all the world to be so; but it appears that is not possible.", "pos": 469516}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Amuse yourself well!", "pos": 469753}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Now, now let us talk about yourself, my young friend; for it is evident that your happy return has something to do with the joy of the king, the triumph of the queen, and the humiliation of his Eminence. You must look out for yourself.", "pos": 470436}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What have I to fear, as long as I shall have the luck to enjoy the favor of their Majesties?", "pos": 470785}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Everything, believe me. The cardinal is not the man to forget a mystification until he has settled account with the mystifier; and the mystifier appears to me to have the air of being a certain young Gascon of my acquaintance.", "pos": 470902}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Do you believe that the cardinal is as well posted as yourself, and knows that I have been to London?", "pos": 471131}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "The devil! You have been to London! Was it from London you brought that beautiful diamond that glitters on your finger? Beware, my dear D’Artagnan! A present from an enemy is not a good thing. Are there not some Latin verses upon that subject? Stop!", "pos": 471235}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, doubtless, yes, doubtless there is one.", "pos": 471487}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "There certainly is one, and Monsieur de Benserade was quoting it to me the other day. Stop a minute—ah, this is it: ‘Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes,’ which means, ‘Beware of the enemy who makes you presents.”", "pos": 471699}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "This diamond does not come from an enemy, monsieur, it comes from the queen.", "pos": 471965}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "From the queen! Oh, oh! Why, it is indeed a true royal jewel, which is worth a thousand pistoles if it is worth a denier. By whom did the queen send you this jewel?", "pos": 472066}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "She gave it to me herself.", "pos": 472256}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Where?", "pos": 472285}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "In the room adjoining the chamber in which she changed her toilet.", "pos": 472294}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "How?", "pos": 472363}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Giving me her hand to kiss.", "pos": 472370}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "You have kissed the queen’s hand?", "pos": 472400}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Her Majesty did me the honor to grant me that favor.", "pos": 472490}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "And that in the presence of witnesses! Imprudent, thrice imprudent!", "pos": 472545}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, monsieur, be satisfied; nobody saw her, and he related to M. de Tréville how the affair came to pass.", "pos": 472615}
{"speaker": "old soldier", "text": "Oh, the women, the women! I know them by their romantic imagination. Everything that savors of mystery charms them. So you have seen the arm, that was all. You would meet the queen, and she would not know who you are?", "pos": 472743}
{"speaker": "young man", "text": "No; but thanks to this diamond,", "pos": 472988}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Listen, shall I give you counsel, good counsel, the counsel of a friend?", "pos": 473045}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You will do me honor, monsieur, said D’Artagnan.", "pos": 473143}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Well, then, off to the nearest goldsmith’s, and sell that diamond for the highest price you can get from him. However much of a Jew he may be, he will give you at least eight hundred pistoles. Pistoles have no name, young man, and that ring has a terrible one, which may betray him who wears it.", "pos": 473194}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Sell this ring, a ring which comes from my sovereign? Never!", "pos": 473492}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Then, at least turn the gem inside, you silly fellow; for everybody must be aware that a cadet from Gascony does not find such stones in his mother’s jewel case.", "pos": 473572}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You think, then, I have something to dread?", "pos": 473736}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "I mean to say, young man, that he who sleeps over a mine the match of which is already lighted, may consider himself in safety in comparison with you.", "pos": 473800}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The devil! the devil! What must I do?", "pos": 473953}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Above all things be always on your guard. The cardinal has a tenacious memory and a long arm; you may depend upon it, he will repay you by some ill turn.", "pos": 474072}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But of what sort?", "pos": 474228}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Eh! How can I tell? Has he not all the tricks of a demon at his command? The least that can be expected is that you will be arrested.", "pos": 474248}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What! Will they dare to arrest a man in his Majesty’s service?", "pos": 474384}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Pardieu! They did not scruple much in the case of Athos. At all events, young man, rely upon one who has been thirty years at court. Do not lull yourself in security, or you will be lost; but, on the contrary—and it is I who say it—see enemies in all directions. If anyone seeks a quarrel with you, shun it, were it with a child of ten years old. If you are attacked by day or by night, fight, but retreat, without shame; if you cross a bridge, feel every plank of it with your foot, lest one should give way beneath you; if you pass before a house which is being built, look up, for fear a stone should fall upon your head; if you stay out late, be always followed by your lackey, and let your lackey be armed—if, by the by, you can be sure of your lackey. Mistrust everybody, your friend, your brother, your mistress—your mistress above all.", "pos": 474449}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My mistress above all, and why her rather than another?", "pos": 475315}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Because a mistress is one of the cardinal’s favorite means; he has not one that is more expeditious. A woman will sell you for ten pistoles, witness Delilah. You are acquainted with the Scriptures? But, à propos, what has become of your three companions?", "pos": 475402}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I was about to ask you if you had heard any news of them?", "pos": 475973}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "None, monsieur.", "pos": 476033}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, I left them on my road—Porthos at Chantilly, with a duel on his hands; Aramis at Crèvecœur, with a ball in his shoulder; and Athos at Amiens, detained by an accusation of coining.", "pos": 476051}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "See there, now! and how the devil did you escape?", "pos": 476239}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "By a miracle, monsieur, I must acknowledge, with a sword thrust in my breast, and by nailing the Comte de Wardes on the byroad to Calais, like a butterfly on a tapestry.", "pos": 476314}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "There again! De Wardes, one of the cardinal’s men, a cousin of Rochefort! Stop, my friend, I have an idea.", "pos": 476486}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Speak, monsieur.", "pos": 476595}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "In your place, I would do one thing.", "pos": 476614}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What?", "pos": 476653}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "While his Eminence was seeking for me in Paris, I would take, without sound of drum or trumpet, the road to Picardy, and would go and make some inquiries concerning my three companions. What the devil! They merit richly that piece of attention on your part.", "pos": 476661}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The advice is good, monsieur, and tomorrow I will set out.", "pos": 476921}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Tomorrow! Any why not this evening?", "pos": 476982}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "This evening, monsieur, I am detained in Paris by indispensable business.", "pos": 477020}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Ah, young man, young man, some flirtation or other. Take care, I repeat to you, take care. It is woman who has ruined us, still ruins us, and will ruin us, as long as the world stands. Take my advice and set out this evening.", "pos": 477096}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Impossible, monsieur.", "pos": 477324}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "You have given your word, then?", "pos": 477348}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, monsieur.", "pos": 477382}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Ah, that’s quite another thing; but promise me, if you should not be killed tonight, that you will go tomorrow.", "pos": 477399}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I promise it.", "pos": 477513}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Do you need money?", "pos": 477529}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I have still fifty pistoles. That, I think, is as much as I shall want.", "pos": 477550}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "But your companions?", "pos": 477624}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I don’t think they can be in need of any. We left Paris, each with seventy-five pistoles in his pocket.", "pos": 477647}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Shall I see you again before your departure?", "pos": 477753}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I think not, monsieur, unless something new should happen.", "pos": 477800}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Well, a pleasant journey.", "pos": 477861}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Thanks, monsieur.", "pos": 477889}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Ah, monsieur, how glad I am to see you.", "pos": 478546}
{"speaker": "young man", "text": "Why so, Planchet?", "pos": 478631}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Do you place confidence in our landlord—Monsieur Bonacieux?", "pos": 478672}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I? Not the least in the world.", "pos": 478734}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Oh, you do quite right, monsieur.", "pos": 478767}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But why this question?", "pos": 478803}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Because, while you were talking with him, I watched you without listening to you; and, monsieur, his countenance changed color two or three times!", "pos": 478828}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Bah!", "pos": 478977}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Preoccupied as Monsieur was with the letter he had received, he did not observe that; but I, whom the strange fashion in which that letter came into the house had placed on my guard—I did not lose a movement of his features.", "pos": 478984}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And you found it?", "pos": 479211}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Traitorous, monsieur.", "pos": 479231}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Indeed!", "pos": 479255}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Still more; as soon as Monsieur had left and disappeared round the corner of the street, Monsieur Bonacieux took his hat, shut his door, and set off at a quick pace in an opposite direction.", "pos": 479265}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "It seems you are right, Planchet; all this appears to be a little mysterious; and be assured that we will not pay him our rent until the matter shall be categorically explained to us.", "pos": 479458}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Monsieur jests, but Monsieur will see.", "pos": 479644}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What would you have, Planchet? What must come is written.", "pos": 479685}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Monsieur does not then renounce his excursion for this evening?", "pos": 479745}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Quite the contrary, Planchet; the more ill will I have toward Monsieur Bonacieux, the more punctual I shall be in keeping the appointment made by that letter which makes you so uneasy.", "pos": 479811}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Then that is Monsieur’s determination?", "pos": 479998}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Undeniably, my friend. At nine o’clock, then, be ready here at the hôtel, I will come and take you.", "pos": 480039}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, Monsieur Planchet, what is the matter with us now?", "pos": 481658}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Don’t you think, monsieur, that woods are like churches?", "pos": 481717}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "How so, Planchet?", "pos": 481776}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Because we dare not speak aloud in one or the other.", "pos": 481796}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But why did you not dare to speak aloud, Planchet—because you are afraid?", "pos": 481851}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Afraid of being heard? Yes, monsieur.", "pos": 481927}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Afraid of being heard! Why, there is nothing improper in our conversation, my dear Planchet, and no one could find fault with it.", "pos": 481967}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Ah, monsieur! that Monsieur Bonacieux has something vicious in his eyebrows, and something very unpleasant in the play of his lips.", "pos": 482099}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What the devil makes you think of Bonacieux?", "pos": 482286}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Monsieur, we think of what we can, and not of what we will.", "pos": 482333}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Because you are a coward, Planchet.", "pos": 482395}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Monsieur, we must not confound prudence with cowardice; prudence is a virtue.", "pos": 482433}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And you are very virtuous, are you not, Planchet?", "pos": 482513}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Monsieur, is not that the barrel of a musket which glitters yonder? Had we not better lower our heads?", "pos": 482565}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "In truth, this animal will end by making me afraid.", "pos": 482670}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Are we going to continue this pace all night?", "pos": 482942}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No; you are at your journey’s end.", "pos": 483006}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "How, monsieur! And you?", "pos": 483043}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I am going a few steps farther.", "pos": 483069}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "And Monsieur leaves me here alone?", "pos": 483103}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You are afraid, Planchet?", "pos": 483140}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "No; I only beg leave to observe to Monsieur that the night will be very cold, that chills bring on rheumatism, and that a lackey who has the rheumatism makes but a poor servant, particularly to a master as active as Monsieur.", "pos": 483168}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, if you are cold, Planchet, you can go into one of those cabarets that you see yonder, and be in waiting for me at the door by six o’clock in the morning.", "pos": 483396}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Monsieur, I have eaten and drunk respectfully the crown you gave me this morning, so that I have not a sou left in case I should be cold.", "pos": 483558}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Here’s half a pistole. Tomorrow morning.", "pos": 483698}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Good Lord, how cold I am!", "pos": 483865}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "In the name of heaven! listen to me; I have been waiting for someone who has not come. I am dying with anxiety. Has anything particular happened in the neighborhood? Speak!", "pos": 492586}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What do you mean? In the name of heaven, explain yourself!", "pos": 493318}
{"speaker": "old man", "text": "Oh! Monsieur, ask me nothing; for if I dared tell you what I have seen, certainly no good would befall me.", "pos": 493399}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You have, then, seen something? In that case, in the name of heaven, tell me what you have seen, and I will pledge you the word of a gentleman that not one of your words shall escape from my heart.", "pos": 493528}
{"speaker": "old man", "text": "It was scarcely nine o’clock when I heard a noise in the street, and was wondering what it could be, when on coming to my door, I found that somebody was endeavoring to open it. As I am very poor and am not afraid of being robbed, I went and opened the gate and saw three men at a few paces from it. In the shadow was a carriage with two horses, and some saddlehorses. These horses evidently belonged to the three men, who were dressed as cavaliers. Ah, my worthy gentlemen, what do you want? You must have a ladder? Yes, monsieur, the one with which I gather my fruit. Lend it to us, and go into your house again; there is a crown for the annoyance we have caused you. Only remember this—if you speak a word of what you may see or what you may hear (for you will look and you will listen, I am quite sure, however we may threaten you), you are lost.", "pos": 493932}
{"speaker": "old man", "text": "It is she!", "pos": 495470}
{"speaker": "old man", "text": "But, my good gentleman, do not take on so; they did not kill her, and that’s a comfort.", "pos": 496856}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Can you guess, who was the man who headed this infernal expedition?", "pos": 497071}
{"speaker": "old man", "text": "I don’t know him.", "pos": 497160}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But as you spoke to him you must have seen him.", "pos": 497180}
{"speaker": "old man", "text": "Oh, it’s a description you want?", "pos": 497230}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Exactly so.", "pos": 497265}
{"speaker": "old man", "text": "A tall, dark man, with black mustaches, dark eyes, and the air of a gentleman.", "pos": 497279}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That’s the man! again he, forever he! He is my demon, apparently. And the other?", "pos": 497360}
{"speaker": "old man", "text": "Which?", "pos": 497463}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The short one.", "pos": 497472}
{"speaker": "old man", "text": "Oh, he was not a gentleman, I’ll answer for it; besides, he did not wear a sword, and the others treated him with small consideration.", "pos": 497489}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Some lackey. Poor woman, poor woman, what have they done with you?", "pos": 497626}
{"speaker": "old man", "text": "You have promised to be secret, my good monsieur?", "pos": 497718}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And I renew my promise. Be easy, I am a gentleman. A gentleman has but his word, and I have given you mine. Oh, if I had my three friends here. I should have, at least, some hopes of finding her; but who knows what has become of them?", "pos": 497788}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Hum! All this savors of his Eminence, a league off.", "pos": 501280}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But what is to be done?", "pos": 501334}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Nothing, absolutely nothing, at present, but quitting Paris, as I told you, as soon as possible. I will see the queen; I will relate to her the details of the disappearance of this poor woman, of which she is no doubt ignorant. These details will guide her on her part, and on your return, I shall perhaps have some good news to tell you. Rely on me.", "pos": 501377}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Well, young man, we appear to pass rather gay nights! Seven o’clock in the morning! Peste! You seem to reverse ordinary customs, and come home at the hour when other people are going out.", "pos": 503449}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No one can reproach you for anything of the kind, Monsieur Bonacieux, you are a model for regular people. It is true that when a man possesses a young and pretty wife, he has no need to seek happiness elsewhere. Happiness comes to meet him, does it not, Monsieur Bonacieux?", "pos": 503649}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Ah, ah! you are a jocular companion! But where the devil were you gadding last night, my young master? It does not appear to be very clean in the crossroads.", "pos": 504011}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah, but you are joking, my worthy man! It appears to me that if my boots need a sponge, your stockings and shoes stand in equal need of a brush. May you not have been philandering a little also, Monsieur Bonacieux? Oh, the devil! That’s unpardonable in a man of your age, and who besides, has such a pretty wife as yours.", "pos": 505187}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, Lord! no, but yesterday I went to St. Mandé to make some inquiries after a servant, as I cannot possibly do without one; and the roads were so bad that I brought back all this mud, which I have not yet had time to remove.", "pos": 505530}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Pardon, my dear Monsieur Bonacieux, if I don’t stand upon ceremony, but nothing makes one so thirsty as want of sleep. I am parched with thirst. Allow me to take a glass of water in your apartment; you know that is never refused among neighbors. Thanks, Monsieur Bonacieux, that is all I wanted of you. I will now go up into my apartment. I will make Planchet brush my boots; and when he has done, I will, if you like, send him to you to brush your shoes.", "pos": 506275}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Ah, monsieur! here is more trouble. I thought you would never come in.", "pos": 507290}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What’s the matter now, Planchet?", "pos": 507417}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Oh! I give you a hundred, I give you a thousand times to guess, monsieur, the visit I received in your absence.", "pos": 507473}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "When?", "pos": 507587}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "About half an hour ago, while you were at Monsieur de Tréville’s.", "pos": 507595}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Who has been here? Come, speak.", "pos": 507663}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Monsieur de Cavois.", "pos": 507697}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Monsieur de Cavois?", "pos": 507719}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "In person.", "pos": 507741}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The captain of the cardinal’s Guards?", "pos": 507754}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Himself.", "pos": 507794}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Did he come to arrest me?", "pos": 507805}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "I have no doubt that he did, monsieur, for all his wheedling manner.", "pos": 507833}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Was he so sweet, then?", "pos": 507904}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Indeed, he was all honey, monsieur.", "pos": 507929}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Indeed!", "pos": 507967}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "He came, he said, on the part of his Eminence, who wished you well, and to beg you to follow him to the Palais-Royal*.", "pos": 507977}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What did you answer him?", "pos": 508172}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "That the thing was impossible, seeing that you were not at home, as he could see.", "pos": 508199}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, what did he say then?", "pos": 508283}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "That you must not fail to call upon him in the course of the day; and then he added in a low voice, ‘Tell your master that his Eminence is very well disposed toward him, and that his fortune perhaps depends upon this interview.’", "pos": 508313}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The snare is rather maladroit for the cardinal, replied the young man, smiling.", "pos": 508544}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Oh, I saw the snare, and I answered you would be quite in despair on your return.", "pos": 508626}
{"speaker": "Monsieur de Cavois", "text": "Where has he gone?", "pos": 508710}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "To Troyes, in Champagne,", "pos": 508758}
{"speaker": "Monsieur de Cavois", "text": "And when did he set out?", "pos": 508798}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Yesterday evening.", "pos": 508826}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Planchet, my friend, you are really a precious fellow.", "pos": 508848}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "You will understand, monsieur, I thought there would be still time, if you wish, to see Monsieur de Cavois to contradict me by saying you were not yet gone. The falsehood would then lie at my door, and as I am not a gentleman, I may be allowed to lie.", "pos": 508931}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Be of good heart, Planchet, you shall preserve your reputation as a veracious man. In a quarter of an hour we set off.", "pos": 509185}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "That’s the advice I was about to give Monsieur; and where are we going, may I ask, without being too curious?", "pos": 509306}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Pardieu! In the opposite direction to that which you said I was gone. Besides, are you not as anxious to learn news of Grimaud, Mousqueton, and Bazin as I am to know what has become of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis?", "pos": 509418}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Yes, monsieur, and I will go as soon as you please. Indeed, I think provincial air will suit us much better just now than the air of Paris. So then—", "pos": 509633}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "So then, pack up our luggage, Planchet, and let us be off. On my part, I will go out with my hands in my pockets, that nothing may be suspected. You may join me at the Hôtel des Gardes. By the way, Planchet, I think you are right with respect to our host, and that he is decidedly a frightfully low wretch.", "pos": 509801}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Ah, monsieur, you may take my word when I tell you anything. I am a physiognomist, I assure you.", "pos": 510110}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That’s well. Now saddle the other three horses.", "pos": 510744}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Do you think, then, monsieur, that we shall travel faster with two horses apiece?", "pos": 510873}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, Monsieur Jester, but with our four horses we may bring back our three friends, if we should have the good fortune to find them living.", "pos": 510993}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Which is a great chance, but we must not despair of the mercy of God.", "pos": 511156}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Amen!", "pos": 511248}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My faith, my good host. I asked for a bottle of your best wine, and if you have deceived me, you will be punished in what you have sinned; for seeing that I hate drinking by myself, you shall drink with me. Take your glass, then, and let us drink. But what shall we drink to, so as to avoid wounding any susceptibility? Let us drink to the prosperity of your establishment.", "pos": 513695}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Your Lordship does me much honor, and I thank you sincerely for your kind wish.", "pos": 514115}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But don’t mistake, there is more selfishness in my toast than perhaps you may think—for it is only in prosperous establishments that one is well received. In hôtels that do not flourish, everything is in confusion, and the traveler is a victim to the embarrassments of his host. Now, I travel a great deal, particularly on this road, and I wish to see all innkeepers making a fortune.", "pos": 514214}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "It seems to me, that this is not the first time I have had the honor of seeing Monsieur.", "pos": 514620}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Bah, I have passed perhaps ten times through Chantilly, and out of the ten times I have stopped three or four times at your house at least. Why I was here only ten or twelve days ago. I was conducting some friends, Musketeers, one of whom, by the by, had a dispute with a stranger—a man who sought a quarrel with him, for I don’t know what.", "pos": 514728}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Exactly so. I remember it perfectly. It is not Monsieur Porthos that your Lordship means?", "pos": 515071}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, that is my companion’s name. My God, my dear host, tell me if anything has happened to him?", "pos": 515180}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Your Lordship must have observed that he could not continue his journey.", "pos": 515279}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Why, to be sure, he promised to rejoin us, and we have seen nothing of him.", "pos": 515354}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "He has done us the honor to remain here.", "pos": 515432}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What, he had done you the honor to remain here?", "pos": 515475}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Yes, monsieur, in this house; and we are even a little uneasy—", "pos": 515525}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "On what account?", "pos": 515590}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Of certain expenses he has contracted.", "pos": 515609}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, but whatever expenses he may have incurred, I am sure he is in a condition to pay them.", "pos": 515650}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Ah, monsieur, you infuse genuine balm into my blood. We have made considerable advances; and this very morning the surgeon declared that if Monsieur Porthos did not pay him, he should look to me, as it was I who had sent for him.", "pos": 515746}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Porthos is wounded, then?", "pos": 515978}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "I cannot tell you, monsieur.", "pos": 516006}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What! You cannot tell me? Surely you ought to be able to tell me better than any other person.", "pos": 516037}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Yes; but in our situation we must not say all we know—particularly as we have been warned that our ears should answer for our tongues.", "pos": 516134}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, can I see Porthos?", "pos": 516271}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Certainly, monsieur. Take the stairs on your right; go up the first flight and knock at Number One. Only warn him that it is you.", "pos": 516298}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Why should I do that?", "pos": 516430}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Because, monsieur, some mischief might happen to you.", "pos": 516454}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Of what kind, in the name of wonder?", "pos": 516510}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Monsieur Porthos may imagine you belong to the house, and in a fit of passion might run his sword through you or blow out your brains.", "pos": 516549}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What have you done to him, then?", "pos": 516686}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "We have asked him for money.", "pos": 516721}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The devil! Ah, I can understand that. It is a demand that Porthos takes very ill when he is not in funds; but I know he must be so at present.", "pos": 516752}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "We thought so, too, monsieur. As our house is carried on very regularly, and we make out our bills every week, at the end of eight days we presented our account; but it appeared we had chosen an unlucky moment, for at the first word on the subject, he sent us to all the devils. It is true he had been playing the day before.", "pos": 516897}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Playing the day before! And with whom?", "pos": 517225}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Lord, who can say, monsieur? With some gentleman who was traveling this way, to whom he proposed a game of lansquenet.", "pos": 517266}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That’s it, then, and the foolish fellow lost all he had?", "pos": 517387}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Even to his horse, monsieur; for when the gentleman was about to set out, we perceived that his lackey was saddling Monsieur Porthos’s horse, as well as his master’s. When we observed this to him, he told us all to trouble ourselves about our own business, as this horse belonged to him. We also informed Monsieur Porthos of what was going on; but he told us we were scoundrels to doubt a gentleman’s word, and that as he had said the horse was his, it must be so.", "pos": 517446}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That’s Porthos all over, murmured D’Artagnan.", "pos": 517913}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Then,", "pos": 517961}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "continued the host,", "pos": 517968}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "I replied that as from the moment we seemed not likely to come to a good understanding with respect to payment, I hoped that he would have at least the kindness to grant the favor of his custom to my brother host of the Golden Eagle; but Monsieur Porthos replied that, my house being the best, he should remain where he was. This reply was too flattering to allow me to insist on his departure. I confined myself then to begging him to give up his chamber, which is the handsomest in the hôtel, and to be satisfied with a pretty little room on the third floor; but to this Monsieur Porthos replied that as he every moment expected his mistress, who was one of the greatest ladies in the court, I might easily comprehend that the chamber he did me the honor to occupy in my house was itself very mean for the visit of such a personage. Nevertheless, while acknowledging the truth of what he said, I thought proper to insist; but without even giving himself the trouble to enter into any discussion with me, he took one of his pistols, laid it on his table, day and night, and said that at the first word that should be spoken to him about removing, either within the house or out of it, he would blow out the brains of the person who should be so imprudent as to meddle with a matter which only concerned himself. Since that time, monsieur, nobody entered his chamber but his servant.", "pos": 517989}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What! Mousqueton is here, then?", "pos": 519375}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Oh, yes, monsieur. Five days after your departure, he came back, and in a very bad condition, too. It appears that he had met with disagreeableness, likewise, on his journey. Unfortunately, he is more nimble than his master; so that for the sake of his master, he puts us all under his feet, and as he thinks we might refuse what he asked for, he takes all he wants without asking at all.", "pos": 519409}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The fact is. I have always observed a great degree of intelligence and devotedness in Mousqueton.", "pos": 519800}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "That is possible, monsieur; but suppose I should happen to be brought in contact, even four times a year, with such intelligence and devotedness—why, I should be a ruined man!", "pos": 519919}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, for Porthos will pay you.", "pos": 520097}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Hum!", "pos": 520129}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The favorite of a great lady will not be allowed to be inconvenienced for such a paltry sum as he owes you.", "pos": 520171}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "If I durst say what I believe on that head—", "pos": 520281}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What you believe?", "pos": 520327}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "I ought rather to say, what I know.", "pos": 520347}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What you know?", "pos": 520385}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "And even what I am sure of.", "pos": 520402}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And of what are you so sure?", "pos": 520432}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "I would say that I know this great lady.", "pos": 520463}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You?", "pos": 520506}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Yes; I.", "pos": 520513}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And how do you know her?", "pos": 520523}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Oh, monsieur, if I could believe I might trust in your discretion.", "pos": 520550}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Speak! By the word of a gentleman, you shall have no cause to repent of your confidence.", "pos": 520619}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Well, monsieur, you understand that uneasiness makes us do many things.", "pos": 520710}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What have you done?", "pos": 520784}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Oh, nothing which was not right in the character of a creditor.", "pos": 520806}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well?", "pos": 520872}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Monsieur Porthos gave us a note for his duchess, ordering us to put it in the post. This was before his servant came. As he could not leave his chamber, it was necessary to charge us with this commission.", "pos": 520880}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And then?", "pos": 521087}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Instead of putting the letter in the post, which is never safe, I took advantage of the journey of one of my lads to Paris, and ordered him to convey the letter to this duchess himself. This was fulfilling the intentions of Monsieur Porthos, who had desired us to be so careful of this letter, was it not?", "pos": 521099}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nearly so.", "pos": 521406}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, monsieur, do you know who this great lady is?", "pos": 521419}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No; I have heard Porthos speak of her, that’s all.", "pos": 521473}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you know who this pretended duchess is?", "pos": 521526}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I repeat to you, I don’t know her.", "pos": 521570}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why, she is the old wife of a procurator* of the Châtelet, monsieur, named Madame Coquenard, who, although she is at least fifty, still gives herself jealous airs. It struck me as very odd that a princess should live in the Rue aux Ours.", "pos": 521607}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But how do you know all this?", "pos": 521858}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because she flew into a great passion on receiving the letter, saying that Monsieur Porthos was a weathercock, and that she was sure it was for some woman he had received this wound.", "pos": 521890}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Has he been wounded, then?", "pos": 522075}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, good Lord! What have I said?", "pos": 522104}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You said that Porthos had received a sword cut.", "pos": 522139}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, but he has forbidden me so strictly to say so.", "pos": 522189}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And why so.", "pos": 522243}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Zounds, monsieur! Because he had boasted that he would perforate the stranger with whom you left him in dispute; whereas the stranger, on the contrary, in spite of all his rodomontades quickly threw him on his back. As Monsieur Porthos is a very boastful man, he insists that nobody shall know he has received this wound except the duchess, whom he endeavored to interest by an account of his adventure.", "pos": 522257}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is a wound that confines him to his bed?", "pos": 522663}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, and a master stroke, too, I assure you. Your friend’s soul must stick tight to his body.", "pos": 522709}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Were you there, then?", "pos": 522804}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Monsieur, I followed them from curiosity, so that I saw the combat without the combatants seeing me.", "pos": 522828}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And what took place?", "pos": 522931}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh! The affair was not long, I assure you. They placed themselves on guard; the stranger made a feint and a lunge, and that so rapidly that when Monsieur Porthos came to the parade, he had already three inches of steel in his breast. He immediately fell backward. The stranger placed the point of his sword at his throat; and Monsieur Porthos, finding himself at the mercy of his adversary, acknowledged himself conquered. Upon which the stranger asked his name, and learning that it was Porthos, and not D’Artagnan, he assisted him to rise, brought him back to the hôtel, mounted his horse, and disappeared.", "pos": 522954}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So it was with Monsieur d’Artagnan this stranger meant to quarrel?", "pos": 523565}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It appears so.", "pos": 523634}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And do you know what has become of him?", "pos": 523651}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, I never saw him until that moment, and have not seen him since.", "pos": 523693}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Very well; I know all that I wish to know. Porthos’s chamber is, you say, on the first story, Number One?", "pos": 523763}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, monsieur, the handsomest in the inn—a chamber that I could have let ten times over.", "pos": 523871}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Bah! Be satisfied. Porthos will pay you with the money of the Duchess Coquenard.", "pos": 523962}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, monsieur, procurator’s wife or duchess, if she will but loosen her pursestrings, it will be all the same; but she positively answered that she was tired of the exigencies and infidelities of Monsieur Porthos, and that she would not send him a denier.", "pos": 524074}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And did you convey this answer to your guest?", "pos": 524331}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We took good care not to do that; he would have found in what fashion we had executed his commission.", "pos": 524379}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "So that he still expects his money?", "pos": 524483}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, Lord, yes, monsieur! Yesterday he wrote again; but it was his servant who this time put the letter in the post.", "pos": 524521}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Do you say the procurator’s wife is old and ugly?", "pos": 524639}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Fifty at least, monsieur, and not at all handsome, according to Pathaud’s account.", "pos": 524691}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "In that case, you may be quite at ease; she will soon be softened. Besides, Porthos cannot owe you much.", "pos": 524776}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How, not much! Twenty good pistoles, already, without reckoning the doctor. He denies himself nothing; it may easily be seen he has been accustomed to live well.", "pos": 524883}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Never mind; if his mistress abandons him, he will find friends, I will answer for it. So, my dear host, be not uneasy, and continue to take all the care of him that his situation requires.", "pos": 525047}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Monsieur has promised me not to open his mouth about the procurator’s wife, and not to say a word of the wound?", "pos": 525238}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That’s agreed; you have my word.", "pos": 525352}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, he would kill me!", "pos": 525387}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Don’t be afraid; he is not so much of a devil as he appears.", "pos": 525411}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ah, pardieu! Is that you? You are right welcome. Excuse my not coming to meet you; but, you know what has happened to me?", "pos": 526567}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No.", "pos": 526792}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Has the host told you nothing, then?", "pos": 526798}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I asked after you, and came up as soon as I could. And what has happened to you, my dear Porthos?", "pos": 526837}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Why, on making a thrust at my adversary, whom I had already hit three times, and whom I meant to finish with the fourth, I put my foot on a stone, slipped, and strained my knee.", "pos": 527000}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Truly?", "pos": 527180}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Honor! Luckily for the rascal, for I should have left him dead on the spot, I assure you.", "pos": 527189}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And what has became of him?", "pos": 527281}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Oh, I don’t know; he had enough, and set off without waiting for the rest. But you, my dear D’Artagnan, what has happened to you?", "pos": 527311}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "So that this strain of the knee, my dear Porthos, keeps you in bed?", "pos": 527443}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "My God, that’s all. I shall be about again in a few days.", "pos": 527537}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Why did you not have yourself conveyed to Paris? You must be cruelly bored here.", "pos": 527597}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "That was my intention; but, my dear friend, I have one thing to confess to you.", "pos": 527680}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What’s that?", "pos": 527762}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "It is that as I was cruelly bored, as you say, and as I had the seventy-five pistoles in my pocket which you had distributed to me, in order to amuse myself I invited a gentleman who was traveling this way to walk up, and proposed a cast of dice. He accepted my challenge, and, my faith, my seventy-five pistoles passed from my pocket to his, without reckoning my horse, which he won into the bargain. But you, my dear D’Artagnan?", "pos": 527777}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What can you expect, my dear Porthos; a man is not privileged in all ways. You know the proverb ‘Unlucky at play, lucky in love.’ You are too fortunate in your love for play not to take its revenge. What consequence can the reverses of fortune be to you? Have you not, happy rogue that you are—have you not your duchess, who cannot fail to come to your aid?", "pos": 528210}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Well, you see, my dear D’Artagnan, with what ill luck I play. I wrote to her to send me fifty louis or so, of which I stood absolutely in need on account of my accident.", "pos": 528589}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well?", "pos": 528821}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Well, she must be at her country seat, for she has not answered me.", "pos": 528829}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Truly?", "pos": 528899}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "No; so I yesterday addressed another epistle to her, still more pressing than the first. But you are here, my dear fellow, let us speak of you. I confess I began to be very uneasy on your account.", "pos": 528908}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But your host behaves very well toward you, as it appears, my dear Porthos,", "pos": 529107}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "So, so. Only three or four days ago the impertinent jackanapes gave me his bill, and I was forced to turn both him and his bill out of the door; so that I am here something in the fashion of a conqueror, holding my position, as it were, my conquest. So you see, being in constant fear of being forced from that position, I am armed to the teeth.", "pos": 529281}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And yet, it appears to me that from time to time you must make sorties.", "pos": 529648}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Not I, unfortunately! This miserable strain confines me to my bed; but Mousqueton forages, and brings in provisions. Friend Mousqueton, you see that we have a reinforcement, and we must have an increase of supplies.", "pos": 529805}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Mousqueton, you must render me a service.", "pos": 530039}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "What, monsieur?", "pos": 530102}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You must give your recipe to Planchet. I may be besieged in my turn, and I shall not be sorry for him to be able to let me enjoy the same advantages with which you gratify your master.", "pos": 530120}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "Lord, monsieur! There is nothing more easy. One only needs to be sharp, that’s all. I was brought up in the country, and my father in his leisure time was something of a poacher.", "pos": 530307}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And what did he do the rest of his time?", "pos": 530526}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "Monsieur, he carried on a trade which I have always thought satisfactory.", "pos": 530569}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Which?", "pos": 530645}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "As it was a time of war between the Catholics and the Huguenots, and as he saw the Catholics exterminate the Huguenots and the Huguenots exterminate the Catholics—all in the name of religion—he adopted a mixed belief which permitted him to be sometimes Catholic, sometimes a Huguenot. Now, he was accustomed to walk with his fowling piece on his shoulder, behind the hedges which border the roads, and when he saw a Catholic coming alone, the Protestant religion immediately prevailed in his mind. He lowered his gun in the direction of the traveler; then, when he was within ten paces of him, he commenced a conversation which almost always ended by the traveler’s abandoning his purse to save his life. It goes without saying that when he saw a Huguenot coming, he felt himself filled with such ardent Catholic zeal that he could not understand how, a quarter of an hour before, he had been able to have any doubts upon the superiority of our holy religion. For my part, monsieur, I am Catholic—my father, faithful to his principles, having made my elder brother a Huguenot.", "pos": 530654}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And what was the end of this worthy man?", "pos": 531733}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "Oh, of the most unfortunate kind, monsieur. One day he was surprised in a lonely road between a Huguenot and a Catholic, with both of whom he had before had business, and who both knew him again; so they united against him and hanged him on a tree. Then they came and boasted of their fine exploit in the cabaret of the next village, where my brother and I were drinking.", "pos": 531794}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And what did you do?", "pos": 532168}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "We let them tell their story out. Then, as in leaving the cabaret they took different directions, my brother went and hid himself on the road of the Catholic, and I on that of the Huguenot. Two hours after, all was over; we had done the business of both, admiring the foresight of our poor father, who had taken the precaution to bring each of us up in a different religion.", "pos": 532208}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, I must allow, as you say, your father was a very intelligent fellow. And you say in his leisure moments the worthy man was a poacher?", "pos": 532607}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "Yes, monsieur, and it was he who taught me to lay a snare and ground a line. The consequence is that when I saw our laborers, which did not at all suit two such delicate stomachs as ours, I had recourse to a little of my old trade. While walking near the wood of Monsieur le Prince, I laid a few snares in the runs; and while reclining on the banks of his Highness’s pieces of water, I slipped a few lines into his fish ponds. So that now, thanks be to God, we do not want, as Monsieur can testify, for partridges, rabbits, carp or eels—all light, wholesome food, suitable for the sick.", "pos": 532749}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But the wine, who furnishes the wine? Your host?", "pos": 533338}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "That is to say, yes and no.", "pos": 533408}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "How yes and no?", "pos": 533438}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "He furnishes it, it is true, but he does not know that he has that honor.", "pos": 533456}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Explain yourself, Mousqueton; your conversation is full of instructive things.", "pos": 533532}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "That is it, monsieur. It has so chanced that I met with a Spaniard in my peregrinations who had seen many countries, and among them the New World.", "pos": 533613}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What connection can the New World have with the bottles which are on the commode and the wardrobe?", "pos": 533762}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "Patience, monsieur, everything will come in its turn. This Spaniard had in his service a lackey who had accompanied him in his voyage to Mexico. This lackey was my compatriot; and we became the more intimate from there being many resemblances of character between us. We loved sporting of all kinds better than anything; so that he related to me how in the plains of the Pampas the natives hunt the tiger and the wild bull with simple running nooses which they throw to a distance of twenty or thirty paces the end of a cord with such nicety; but in face of the proof I was obliged to acknowledge the truth of the recital. My friend placed a bottle at the distance of thirty paces, and at each cast he caught the neck of the bottle in his running noose. I practiced this exercise, and as nature has endowed me with some faculties, at this day I can throw the lasso with any man in the world. Well, do you understand, monsieur? Our host has a well-furnished cellar the key of which never leaves him; only this cellar has a ventilating hole. Now through this ventilating hole I throw my lasso, and as I now know in which part of the cellar is the best wine, that’s my point for sport. You see, monsieur, what the New World has to do with the bottles which are on the commode and the wardrobe. Now, will you taste our wine, and without prejudice say what you think of it?", "pos": 533863}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Thank you, my friend, thank you; unfortunately, I have just breakfasted.", "pos": 535236}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Well, arrange the table, Mousqueton, and while we breakfast, D’Artagnan will relate to us what has happened to him during the ten days since he left us.", "pos": 535311}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Willingly,", "pos": 535482}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "D’Artagnan had said nothing to Porthos of his wound or of his procurator’s wife. Our Béarnais was a prudent lad, however young he might be. Consequently he had appeared to believe all that the vainglorious Musketeer had told him, convinced that no friendship will hold out against a surprised secret. Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose. In his projects of intrigue for the future, and determined as he was to make his three friends the instruments of his fortune, D’Artagnan was not sorry at getting into his grasp beforehand the invisible strings by which he reckoned upon moving them. And yet, as he journeyed along, a profound sadness weighed upon his heart. He thought of that young and pretty Mme. Bonacieux who was to have paid him the price of his devotedness; but let us hasten to say that this sadness possessed the young man less from the regret of the happiness he had missed, than from the fear he entertained that some serious misfortune had befallen the poor woman. For himself, he had no doubt she was a victim of the cardinal’s vengeance; and, as was well known, the vengeance of his Eminence was terrible. How he had found grace in the eyes of the minister, he did not know; but without doubt M. de Cavois would have revealed this to him if the captain of the Guards had found him at home. Nothing makes time pass more quickly or more shortens a journey than a thought which absorbs in itself all the faculties of the organization of him who thinks. External existence then resembles a sleep of which this thought is the dream. By its influence, time has no longer measure, space has no longer distance. We depart from one place, and arrive at another, that is all. Of the interval passed, nothing remains in the memory but a vague mist in which a thousand confused images of trees, mountains, and landscapes are lost. It was as a prey to this hallucination that D’Artagnan traveled, at whatever pace his horse pleased, the six or eight leagues that separated Chantilly from Crèvecœur, without his being able to remember on his arrival in the village any of the things he had passed or met with on the road.", "pos": 537273}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My good dame, can you tell me what has become of one of my friends, whom we were obliged to leave here about a dozen days ago?", "pos": 539977}
{"speaker": "Hostess", "text": "A handsome young man, three- or four-and-twenty years old, mild, amiable, and well made?", "pos": 540126}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That is he—wounded in the shoulder.", "pos": 540217}
{"speaker": "Hostess", "text": "Just so. Well, monsieur, he is still here.", "pos": 540255}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah, pardieu! My dear dame, you restore me to life; where is this dear Aramis? Let me embrace him, I am in a hurry to see him again.", "pos": 540300}
{"speaker": "Hostess", "text": "Pardon, monsieur, but I doubt whether he can see you at this moment.", "pos": 540516}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Why so? Has he a lady with him?", "pos": 540587}
{"speaker": "Hostess", "text": "Jesus! What do you mean by that? Poor lad! No, monsieur, he has not a lady with him.", "pos": 540621}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "With whom is he, then?", "pos": 540708}
{"speaker": "Hostess", "text": "With the curate of Montdidier and the superior of the Jesuits of Amiens.", "pos": 540733}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Good heavens! is the poor fellow worse, then?", "pos": 540808}
{"speaker": "Hostess", "text": "No, monsieur, quite the contrary; but after his illness grace touched him, and he determined to take orders.", "pos": 540876}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That’s it! I had forgotten that he was only a Musketeer for a time.", "pos": 540987}
{"speaker": "Hostess", "text": "Monsieur still insists upon seeing him?", "pos": 541076}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "More than ever.", "pos": 541118}
{"speaker": "Hostess", "text": "Well, monsieur has only to take the right-hand staircase in the courtyard, and knock at Number Five on the second floor.", "pos": 541136}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Good day, dear D’Artagnan, believe me, I am glad to see you.", "pos": 544764}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "So am I delighted to see you, although I am not yet sure that it is Aramis I am speaking to.", "pos": 544842}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "To himself, my friend, to himself! But what makes you doubt it? I was afraid I had made a mistake in the chamber, and that I had found my way into the apartment of some churchman. Then another error seized me on seeing you in company with these gentlemen—I was afraid you were dangerously ill.", "pos": 544956}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I disturb you, perhaps, my dear Aramis, for by what I see, I am led to believe that you are confessing to these gentlemen.", "pos": 545411}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "You disturb me? Oh, quite the contrary, dear friend, I swear; and as a proof of what I say, permit me to declare I am rejoiced to see you safe and sound.", "pos": 545590}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah, he’ll come round, that’s not bad!", "pos": 545746}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "This gentleman, who is my friend, has just escaped from a serious danger,", "pos": 545808}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "Praise God, monsieur,", "pos": 545992}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I have not failed to do so, your Reverences,", "pos": 546047}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "You arrive in good time, dear D’Artagnan, and by taking part in our discussion may assist us with your intelligence. Monsieur the Principal of Amiens, Monsieur the Curate of Montdidier, and I are arguing certain theological questions in which we have been much interested; I shall be delighted to have your opinion.", "pos": 546145}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The opinion of a swordsman can have very little weight, and you had better be satisfied, believe me, with the knowledge of these gentlemen.", "pos": 546478}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "On the contrary, your opinion will be very valuable. The question is this: Monsieur the Principal thinks that my thesis ought to be dogmatic and didactic.", "pos": 546739}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Your thesis! Are you then making a thesis?", "pos": 546914}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "Without doubt. In the examination which precedes ordination, a thesis is always a requisite.", "pos": 546959}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ordination!", "pos": 547076}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Now, as you have heard, D’Artagnan, Monsieur the Principal is desirous that my thesis should be dogmatic, while I, for my part, would rather it should be ideal. This is the reason why Monsieur the Principal has proposed to me the following subject, which has not yet been treated upon, and in which I perceive there is matter for magnificent elaboration—‘Utraque manus in benedicendo clericis inferioribus necessaria est.’ Which means. The two hands are indispensable for priests of the inferior orders, when they bestow the benediction.", "pos": 547249}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "An admirable subject!", "pos": 548347}
{"speaker": "Curate", "text": "Admirable and dogmatic!", "pos": 548389}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Yes, admirable! prorsus admirabile! but which requires a profound study of both the Scriptures and the Fathers. Now, I have confessed to these learned ecclesiastics, and that in all humility, that the duties of mounting guard and the service of the king have caused me to neglect study a little. I should find myself, therefore, more at my ease, facilius natans, in a subject of my own choice, which would be to these hard theological questions what morals are to metaphysics in philosophy.", "pos": 548686}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "See what an exordium!", "pos": 549252}
{"speaker": "Curate", "text": "Exordium. Quemadmodum inter cœlorum immensitatem.", "pos": 549294}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Let us speak French, my father. Monsieur d’Artagnan will enjoy our conversation better.", "pos": 549532}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes. I am fatigued with reading, and all this Latin confuses me.", "pos": 549647}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "Certainly. Well, let us see what is to be derived from this gloss. Moses, the servant of God—he was but a servant, please to understand—Moses blessed with the hands; he held out both his arms while the Hebrews beat their enemies, and then he blessed them with his two hands. Besides, what does the Gospel say? Imponite manus, and not manum—place the hands, not the hand.", "pos": 549736}
{"speaker": "Curate", "text": "Place the hands,", "pos": 550235}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "St. Peter, on the contrary, of whom the Popes are the successors, porrige digitos—present the fingers. Are you there, now?", "pos": 550291}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Certes, but the thing is subtle.", "pos": 550440}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "The fingers. St. Peter blessed with the fingers. The Pope, therefore blesses with the fingers. And with how many fingers does he bless? With three fingers, to be sure—one for the Father, one for the Son, and one for the Holy Ghost. The Pope is the successor of St. Peter, and represents the three divine powers; the rest—ordines inferiores—of the ecclesiastical hierarchy bless in the name of the holy archangels and angels. The most humble clerks such as our deacons and sacristans, bless with holy water sprinklers, which resemble an infinite number of blessing fingers. There is the subject simplified. Argumentum omni denudatum ornamento. I could make of that subject two volumes the size of this,", "pos": 550512}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Certes. Non inutile est desiderium in oblatione A little regret is not unsuitable in an offering to the Lord.", "pos": 551469}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "Stop there! for that thesis touches closely upon heresy. There is a proposition almost like it in the Augustinus of the heresiarch Jansenius, whose book will sooner or later be burned by the hands of the executioner. Take care, my young friend. You are inclining toward false doctrines, my young friend; you will be lost.", "pos": 551796}
{"speaker": "Curate", "text": "You will be lost,", "pos": 552140}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "You approach that famous point of free will which is a mortal rock. You face the insinuations of the Pelagians and the semi-Pelagians.", "pos": 552207}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "But, my Reverend—", "pos": 552344}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "How will you prove, that we ought to regret the world when we offer ourselves to God? Listen to this dilemma: God is God, and the world is the devil. To regret the world is to regret the devil; that is my conclusion.", "pos": 552450}
{"speaker": "Curate", "text": "And that is mine also,", "pos": 552729}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "But, for heaven’s sake—", "pos": 552771}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "Desideras diabolum, unhappy man!", "pos": 552813}
{"speaker": "Curate", "text": "He regrets the devil! Ah, my young friend, do not regret the devil, I implore you!", "pos": 552866}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "But listen to me, then. I do not say I regret; no, I will never pronounce that sentence, which would not be orthodox. No; but pray grant me that it is acting with an ill grace to offer to the Lord only that with which we are perfectly disgusted! Don’t you think so, D’Artagnan?", "pos": 553207}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I think so, indeed,", "pos": 553628}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "This is the point of departure; it is a syllogism. The world is not wanting in attractions. I quit the world; then I make a sacrifice. Now, the Scripture says positively, ‘Make a sacrifice unto the Lord.’", "pos": 553719}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "That is true,", "pos": 553926}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "And then, and then I made a certain rondeau upon it last year, which I showed to Monsieur Voiture, and that great man paid me a thousand compliments.", "pos": 553964}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "A rondeau!", "pos": 554207}
{"speaker": "Curate", "text": "A rondeau!", "pos": 554251}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Repeat it! Repeat it! it will make a little change.", "pos": 554295}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Not so, for it is religious, it is theology in verse.", "pos": 554369}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The devil!", "pos": 554443}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Here it is. Vous qui pleurez un passé plein de charmes, Et qui trainez des jours infortunés, Tous vos malheurs se verront terminés, Quand à Dieu seul vous offrirez vos larmes, Vous qui pleurez! You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to God your tears are shed, You who weep!", "pos": 554473}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "Beware of a profane taste in your theological style. What says Augustine on this subject: ‘Severus sit clericorum verbo.’", "pos": 555003}
{"speaker": "Curate", "text": "Yes, let the sermon be clear,", "pos": 555127}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "Now, now your thesis would please the ladies; it would have the success of one of Monsieur Patru’s pleadings.", "pos": 555176}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Please God!", "pos": 555367}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "There it is, the world still speaks within you in a loud voice, altisimâ voce. You follow the world, my young friend, and I tremble lest grace prove not efficacious.", "pos": 555408}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Be satisfied, my reverend father, I can answer for myself.", "pos": 555596}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "Mundane presumption!", "pos": 555657}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I know myself, Father; my resolution is irrevocable.", "pos": 555680}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "Then you persist in continuing that thesis?", "pos": 555735}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I feel myself called upon to treat that, and no other. I will see about the continuation of it, and tomorrow I hope you will be satisfied with the corrections I shall have made in consequence of your advice.", "pos": 555781}
{"speaker": "Curate", "text": "Work slowly, we leave you in an excellent tone of mind.", "pos": 555991}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "Yes, the ground is all sown, and we have not to fear that one portion of the seed may have fallen upon stone, another upon the highway, or that the birds of heaven have eaten the rest, aves cœli comederunt illam.", "pos": 556068}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Plague stifle you and your Latin!", "pos": 556302}
{"speaker": "Curate", "text": "Farewell, my son, till tomorrow.", "pos": 556401}
{"speaker": "Jesuit", "text": "Till tomorrow, rash youth. You promise to become one of the lights of the Church. Heaven grant that this light prove not a devouring fire!", "pos": 556455}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "you see that I am returned to my fundamental ideas.", "pos": 557413}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, efficacious grace has touched you, as that gentleman said just now.", "pos": 557467}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Oh, these plans of retreat have been formed for a long time. You have often heard me speak of them, have you not, my friend?", "pos": 557542}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes; but I confess I always thought you jested.", "pos": 557669}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "With such things! Oh, D’Artagnan!", "pos": 557719}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The devil! Why, people jest with death.", "pos": 557755}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "And people are wrong, D’Artagnan; for death is the door which leads to perdition or to salvation.", "pos": 557797}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Granted; but if you please, let us not theologize, Aramis. You must have had enough for today. As for me, I have almost forgotten the little Latin I have ever known. Then I confess to you that I have eaten nothing since ten o’clock this morning, and I am devilish hungry.", "pos": 557896}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "We will dine directly, my friend; only you must please to remember that this is Friday. Now, on such a day I can neither eat flesh nor see it eaten. If you can be satisfied with my dinner—it consists of cooked tetragones and fruits.", "pos": 558170}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What do you mean by tetragones?", "pos": 558405}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I mean spinach, but on your account I will add some eggs, and that is a serious infraction of the rule—for eggs are meat, since they engender chickens.", "pos": 558467}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "This feast is not very succulent; but never mind, I will put up with it for the sake of remaining with you.", "pos": 558639}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I am grateful to you for the sacrifice, but if your body be not greatly benefited by it, be assured your soul will.", "pos": 558749}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And so, Aramis, you are decidedly going into the Church? What will our two friends say? What will Monsieur de Tréville say? They will treat you as a deserter, I warn you.", "pos": 558882}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I do not enter the Church; I re-enter it. I deserted the Church for the world, for you know that I forced myself when I became a Musketeer.", "pos": 559055}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I? I know nothing about it.", "pos": 559197}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "You don’t know I quit the seminary?", "pos": 559227}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Not at all.", "pos": 559265}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "This is my story, then. Besides, the Scriptures say, ‘Confess yourselves to one another,’ and I confess to you, D’Artagnan.", "pos": 559279}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And I give you absolution beforehand. You see I am a good sort of a man.", "pos": 559405}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Do not jest about holy things, my friend.", "pos": 559480}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Go on, then, I listen.", "pos": 559524}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I had been at the seminary from nine years old; in three days I should have been twenty. I was about to become an abbé, and all was arranged. One evening I went, according to custom, to a house which I frequented with much pleasure: when one is young, what can be expected?—one is weak. An officer who saw me, with a jealous eye, reading the Lives of the Saints to the mistress of the house, entered suddenly and without being announced. That evening I had translated an episode of Judith, and had just communicated my verses to the lady, who gave me all sorts of compliments, and leaning on my shoulder, was reading them a second time with me. Her pose, which I must admit was rather free, wounded this officer. He said nothing; but when I went out he followed, and quickly came up with me. ‘Monsieur the Abbé,’ said he, ‘do you like blows with a cane?’ ‘I cannot say, monsieur,’ answered I; ‘no one has ever dared to give me any.’ ‘Well, listen to me, then, Monsieur the Abbé! If you venture again into the house in which I have met you this evening, I will dare it myself.’ I really think I must have been frightened. I became very pale; I felt my legs fail me; I sought for a reply, but could find none—I was silent. The officer waited for his reply, and seeing it so long coming, he burst into a laugh, turned upon his heel, and re-entered the house. I returned to the seminary. I am a gentleman born, and my blood is warm, as you may have remarked, my dear D’Artagnan. The insult was terrible, and although unknown to the rest of the world, I felt it live and fester at the bottom of my heart. I informed my superiors that I did not feel myself sufficiently prepared for ordination, and at my request the ceremony was postponed for a year. I sought out the best fencing master in Paris, I made an agreement with him to take a lesson every day, and every day for a year I took that lesson. Then, on the anniversary of the day on which I had been insulted, I hung my cassock on a peg, assumed the costume of a cavalier, and went to a ball given by a lady friend of mine and to which I knew my man was invited. It was in the Rue des France-Bourgeois, close to La Force. As I expected, my officer was there. I went up to him as he was singing a love ditty and looking tenderly at a lady, and interrupted him exactly in the middle of the second couplet. ‘Monsieur,’ said I, ‘does it still displease you that I should frequent a certain house of La Rue Payenne? And would you still cane me if I took it into my head to disobey you? The officer looked at me with astonishment, and then said, ‘What is your business with me, monsieur? I do not know you.’ ‘I am,’ said I, ‘the little abbé who reads Lives of the Saints, and translates Judith into verse.’ ‘Ah, ah! I recollect now,’ said the officer, in a jeering tone; ‘well, what do you want with me?’ ‘I want you to spare time to take a walk with me.’ ‘Tomorrow morning, if you like, with the greatest pleasure.’ ‘No, not tomorrow morning, if you please, but immediately.’ ‘If you absolutely insist.’ ‘I do insist upon it.’ ‘Come, then. Ladies,’ said the officer, ‘do not disturb yourselves; allow me time just to kill this gentleman, and I will return and finish the last couplet. We went out. I took him to the Rue Payenne, to exactly the same spot where, a year before, at the very same hour, he had paid me the compliment I have related to you. It was a superb moonlight night. We immediately drew, and at the first pass I laid him stark dead.", "pos": 559549}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The devil!", "pos": 563051}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Now, as the ladies did not see the singer come back, and as he was found in the Rue Payenne with a great sword wound through his body, it was supposed that I had accommodated him thus; and the matter created some scandal which obliged me to renounce the cassock for a time. Athos, whose acquaintance I made about that period, and Porthos, who had in addition to my lessons taught me some effective tricks of fence, prevailed upon me to solicit the uniform of a Musketeer. The king entertained great regard for my father, who had fallen at the siege of Arras, and the uniform was granted. You may understand that the moment has come for me to re-enter the bosom of the Church.", "pos": 563102}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And why today, rather than yesterday or tomorrow? What has happened to you today, to raise all these melancholy ideas?", "pos": 563780}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "This wound, my dear D’Artagnan, has been a warning to me from heaven.", "pos": 563901}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "This wound? Bah, it is now nearly healed, and I am sure it is not that which gives you the most pain.", "pos": 563973}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "What, then?", "pos": 564077}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You have one at heart, Aramis, one deeper and more painful—a wound made by a woman.", "pos": 564114}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Ah, do not talk of such things, and suffer love pains? Vanitas vanitatum! According to your idea, then, my brain is turned. And for whom—for some grisette, some chambermaid with whom I have trifled in some garrison? Fie!", "pos": 564247}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Pardon, my dear Aramis, but I thought you carried your eyes higher.", "pos": 564535}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Higher? And who am I, to nourish such ambition? A poor Musketeer, a beggar, an unknown—who hates slavery, and finds himself ill-placed in the world.", "pos": 564605}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Aramis, Aramis!", "pos": 564756}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Dust I am, and to dust I return. Life is full of humiliations and sorrows, all the ties which attach him to life break in the hand of man, particularly the golden ties. Oh, my dear D’Artagnan, trust me! Conceal your wounds when you have any; silence is the last joy of the unhappy. Beware of giving anyone the clue to your griefs; the curious suck our tears as flies suck the blood of a wounded hart.", "pos": 564836}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Alas, my dear Aramis, that is my story you are relating!", "pos": 565354}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "How?", "pos": 565469}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes; a woman whom I love, whom I adore, has just been torn from me by force. I do not know where she is or whither they have conducted her. She is perhaps a prisoner; she is perhaps dead!", "pos": 565476}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Yes, but you have at least this consolation, that you can say to yourself she has not quit you voluntarily, that if you learn no news of her, it is because all communication with you is interdicted; while I—", "pos": 565666}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well?", "pos": 565876}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Nothing,", "pos": 565884}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "So you renounce the world, then, forever; that is a settled thing—a resolution registered!", "pos": 565922}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Forever! You are my friend today; tomorrow you will be no more to me than a shadow, or rather, even, you will no longer exist. As for the world, it is a sepulcher and nothing else.", "pos": 566015}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The devil! All this is very sad which you tell me.", "pos": 566198}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "What will you? My vocation commands me; it carries me away. And yet, while I do belong to the earth, I wish to speak of you—of our friends.", "pos": 566251}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I wished to speak of you, but I find you so completely detached from everything! To love you cry, ‘Fie! Friends are shadows! The world is a sepulcher!’", "pos": 566487}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Alas, you will find it so yourself,", "pos": 566641}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, then, let us say no more about it, and let us burn this letter, which, no doubt, announces to you some fresh infidelity of your grisette or your chambermaid.", "pos": 566705}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "What letter?", "pos": 566890}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "A letter which was sent to your abode in your absence, and which was given to me for you.", "pos": 566928}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "But from whom is that letter?", "pos": 567020}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, from some heartbroken waiting woman, some desponding grisette; from Madame de Chevreuse’s chambermaid, perhaps, who was obliged to return to Tours with her mistress, and who, in order to appear smart and attractive, stole some perfumed paper, and sealed her letter with a duchess’s coronet.", "pos": 567052}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "What do you say?", "pos": 567349}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Hold! I must have lost it. But fortunately the world is a sepulcher; the men, and consequently the women, are but shadows, and love is a sentiment to which you cry, ‘Fie! Fie!’", "pos": 567368}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "D’Artagnan, D’Artagnan, you are killing me!", "pos": 567610}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, here it is at last! as he drew the letter from his pocket.", "pos": 567672}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "This same waiting maid seems to have an agreeable style. Thanks, D’Artagnan, thanks! She was forced to return to Tours; she is not faithless; she still loves me! Come, my friend, come, let me embrace you. Happiness almost stifles me! Be off, you wretch! Return whence you came; take back those horrible vegetables, and that poor kickshaw! Order a larded hare, a fat capon, mutton leg dressed with garlic, and four bottles of old Burgundy.", "pos": 567853}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Now this is the moment to consecrate your existence to the King of kings, if you persist in offering him a civility. Non inutile desiderium oblatione.", "pos": 568820}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Go to the devil with your Latin. Let us drink, my dear D’Artagnan, morbleu! Let us drink while the wine is fresh! Let us drink heartily, and while we do so, tell me a little of what is going on in the world yonder.", "pos": 568992}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "We have now to search for Athos,", "pos": 569241}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Do you think, then, that any harm can have happened to him? Athos is so cool, so brave, and handles his sword so skillfully.", "pos": 569495}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No doubt. Nobody has a higher opinion of the courage and skill of Athos than I have; but I like better to hear my sword clang against lances than against staves. I fear lest Athos should have been beaten down by serving men. Those fellows strike hard, and don’t leave off in a hurry. This is why I wish to set out again as soon as possible.", "pos": 569638}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I will try to accompany you, though I scarcely feel in a condition to mount on horseback. Yesterday I undertook to employ that cord which you see hanging against the wall, but pain prevented my continuing the pious exercise.", "pos": 569981}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That’s the first time I ever heard of anybody trying to cure gunshot wounds with cat-o’-nine-tails; but you were ill, and illness renders the head weak, therefore you may be excused.", "pos": 570223}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "When do you mean to set out?", "pos": 570408}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Tomorrow at daybreak. Sleep as soundly as you can tonight, and tomorrow, if you can, we will take our departure together.", "pos": 570439}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Till tomorrow, then, for iron-nerved as you are, you must need repose.", "pos": 570563}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What are you looking at?", "pos": 570739}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "My faith! I am admiring three magnificent horses which the stable boys are leading about. It would be a pleasure worthy of a prince to travel upon such horses.", "pos": 570784}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, my dear Aramis, you may enjoy that pleasure, for one of those three horses is yours.", "pos": 570946}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Ah, bah! Which?", "pos": 571039}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Whichever of the three you like, I have no preference.", "pos": 571057}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "And the rich caparison, is that mine, too?", "pos": 571114}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Without doubt.", "pos": 571159}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "You laugh, D’Artagnan.", "pos": 571176}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, I have left off laughing, now that you speak French.", "pos": 571201}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "What, those rich holsters, that velvet housing, that saddle studded with silver—are they all for me?", "pos": 571260}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "For you and nobody else, as the horse which paws the ground is mine, and the other horse, which is caracoling, belongs to Athos.", "pos": 571363}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Peste! They are three superb animals!", "pos": 571494}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I am glad they please you.", "pos": 571534}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Why, it must have been the king who made you such a present.", "pos": 571563}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Certainly it was not the cardinal; but don’t trouble yourself whence they come, think only that one of the three is your property.", "pos": 571626}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I choose that which the red-headed boy is leading.", "pos": 571759}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "It is yours!", "pos": 571812}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Good heaven! That is enough to drive away all my pains; I could mount him with thirty balls in my body. On my soul, handsome stirrups! Holà, Bazin, come here this minute.", "pos": 571827}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That last order is useless; there are loaded pistols in your holsters.", "pos": 572054}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Come, Monsieur Bazin, make yourself easy,", "pos": 572167}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "people of all conditions gain the kingdom of heaven.", "pos": 572228}
{"speaker": "Bazin", "text": "Monsieur was already such a good theologian, he might have become a bishop, and perhaps a cardinal.", "pos": 572283}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, but my poor Bazin, reflect a little. Of what use is it to be a churchman, pray? You do not avoid going to war by that means; you see, the cardinal is about to make the next campaign, helm on head and partisan in hand. And Monsieur de Nogaret de la Valette, what do you say of him? He is a cardinal likewise. Ask his lackey how often he has had to prepare lint of him.", "pos": 572415}
{"speaker": "Bazin", "text": "Alas! I know it, monsieur; everything is turned topsy-turvy in the world nowadays.", "pos": 572791}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Hold my stirrup, Bazin, and Aramis sprang into the saddle with his usual grace and agility, but after a few vaults and curvets of the noble animal his rider felt his pains come on so insupportably that he turned pale and became unsteady in his seat.", "pos": 572975}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That’s all right, my dear Aramis, take care of yourself. I will go alone in search of Athos.", "pos": 573385}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "You are a man of brass,", "pos": 573491}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, I have good luck, that is all. But how do you mean to pass your time till I come back? No more theses, no more glosses upon the fingers or upon benedictions, hey?", "pos": 573533}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I will make verses,", "pos": 573717}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, I dare say; verses perfumed with the odor of the billet from the attendant of Madame de Chevreuse. Teach Bazin prosody; that will console him. As to the horse, ride him a little every day, and that will accustom you to his maneuvers.", "pos": 573748}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Oh, make yourself easy on that head. You will find me ready to follow you.", "pos": 573989}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "How was he going to find Athos? Should he find him at all? The position in which he had left him was critical. He probably had succumbed. This idea, while darkening his brow, drew several sighs from him, and caused him to formulate to himself a few vows of vengeance. Of all his friends, Athos was the eldest, and the least resembling him in appearance, in his tastes and sympathies. Yet he entertained a marked preference for this gentleman. The noble and distinguished air of Athos, those flashes of greatness which from time to time broke out from the shade in which he voluntarily kept himself, that unalterable equality of temper which made him the most pleasant companion in the world, that forced and cynical gaiety, that bravery which might have been termed blind if it had not been the result of the rarest coolness—such qualities attracted more than the esteem, more than the friendship of D’Artagnan; they attracted his admiration.", "pos": 574265}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, poor Athos is perhaps at this moment dead, and dead by my fault—for it was I who dragged him into this affair, of which he did not know the origin, of which he is ignorant of the result, and from which he can derive no advantage.", "pos": 580435}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Without reckoning, monsieur, that we perhaps owe our lives to him. Do you remember how he cried, ‘On, D’Artagnan, on, I am taken’?", "pos": 580695}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Do you remember me?", "pos": 581621}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "I have not that honor, monseigneur,", "pos": 581691}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What, you don’t know me?", "pos": 581819}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "No, monseigneur.", "pos": 581846}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, two words will refresh your memory. What have you done with that gentleman against whom you had the audacity, about twelve days ago, to make an accusation of passing false money?", "pos": 581865}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Ah, monseigneur, do not mention it! Ah, monseigneur, how dearly have I paid for that fault, unhappy wretch as I am!", "pos": 582184}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That gentleman, I say, what has become of him?", "pos": 582359}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Deign to listen to me, monseigneur, and be merciful! Sit down, in mercy! Here is the story, monseigneur, for I now recollect you. It was you who rode off at the moment I had that unfortunate difference with the gentleman you speak of.", "pos": 582408}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, it was I; so you may plainly perceive that you have no mercy to expect if you do not tell me the whole truth.", "pos": 582826}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Condescend to listen to me, and you shall know all. I had been warned by the authorities that a celebrated coiner of bad money would arrive at my inn, with several of his companions, all disguised as Guards or Musketeers. Monseigneur, I was furnished with a description of your horses, your lackeys, your countenances—nothing was omitted.", "pos": 582943}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Go on, go on!", "pos": 583298}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "I took then, in conformity with the orders of the authorities, who sent me a reinforcement of six men, such measures as I thought necessary to get possession of the persons of the pretended coiners.", "pos": 583397}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Again!", "pos": 583598}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Pardon me, monseigneur, for saying such things, but they form my excuse. The authorities had terrified me, and you know that an innkeeper must keep on good terms with the authorities.", "pos": 583694}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But once again, that gentleman—where is he? What has become of him? Is he dead? Is he living?", "pos": 583880}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Patience, monseigneur, we are coming to it. There happened then that which you know, and of which your precipitate departure, appeared to authorize the issue. That gentleman, your friend, defended himself desperately. His lackey, who, by an unforeseen piece of ill luck, had quarreled with the officers, disguised as stable lads—", "pos": 583976}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Miserable scoundrel! you were all in the plot, then! And I really don’t know what prevents me from exterminating you all.", "pos": 584376}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Alas, monseigneur, we were not in the plot, as you will soon see. Monsieur your friend (pardon for not calling him by the honorable name which no doubt he bears, but we do not know that name), Monsieur your friend, having disabled two men with his pistols, retreated fighting with his sword, with which he disabled one of my men, and stunned me with a blow of the flat side of it.", "pos": 584520}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You villain, will you finish? Athos—what has become of Athos?", "pos": 584903}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "While fighting and retreating, as I have told Monseigneur, he found the door of the cellar stairs behind him, and as the door was open, he took out the key, and barricaded himself inside. As we were sure of finding him there, we left him alone.", "pos": 584987}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, you did not really wish to kill; you only wished to imprison him.", "pos": 585234}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Good God! To imprison him, monseigneur? Why, he imprisoned himself, I swear to you he did. In the first place he had made rough work of it; one man was killed on the spot, and two others were severely wounded. The dead man and the two wounded were carried off by their comrades, and I have heard nothing of either of them since. As for myself, as soon as I recovered my senses I went to Monsieur the Governor, to whom I related all that had passed, and asked, what I should do with my prisoner. Monsieur the Governor was all astonishment. He told me he knew nothing about the matter, that the orders I had received did not come from him, and that if I had the audacity to mention his name as being concerned in this disturbance he would have me hanged. It appears that I had made a mistake, monsieur, that I had arrested the wrong person, and that he whom I ought to have arrested had escaped.", "pos": 585326}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But Athos! Athos, where is he?", "pos": 586222}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "As I was anxious to repair the wrongs I had done the prisoner. I took my way straight to the cellar in order to set him at liberty. Ah, monsieur, he was no longer a man, he was a devil! To my offer of liberty, he replied that it was nothing but a snare, and that before he came out he intended to impose his own conditions. I told him very humbly—for I could not conceal from myself the scrape I had got into by laying hands on one of his Majesty’s Musketeers—I told him I was quite ready to submit to his conditions.", "pos": 586343}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "In the first place. I wish my lackey placed with me, fully armed.", "pos": 586888}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Monsieur Grimaud (he told us his name, although he does not talk much)—Monsieur Grimaud, then, went down to the cellar, wounded as he was; then his master, having admitted him, barricaded the door afresh, and ordered us to remain quietly in our own bar.", "pos": 587103}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But where is Athos now? Where is Athos?", "pos": 587359}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "In the cellar, monsieur.", "pos": 587421}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What, you scoundrel! Have you kept him in the cellar all this time?", "pos": 587448}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Merciful heaven! No, monsieur! We keep him in the cellar! You do not know what he is about in the cellar. Ah! If you could but persuade him to come out, monsieur, I should owe you the gratitude of my whole life; I should adore you as my patron saint! Then he is there? I shall find him there? Without doubt you will, monsieur; he persists in remaining there. We every day pass through the air hole some bread at the end of a fork, and some meat when he asks for it; but alas! It is not of bread and meat of which he makes the greatest consumption. I once endeavored to go down with two of my servants; but he flew into terrible rage. I heard the noise he made in loading his pistols, and his servant in loading his musketoon. Then, when we asked them what were their intentions, the master replied that he had forty charges to fire, and that he and his lackey would fire to the last one before he would allow a single soul of us to set foot in the cellar. Upon this I went and complained to the governor, who replied that I only had what I deserved, and that it would teach me to insult honorable gentlemen who took up their abode in my house.", "pos": 587518}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "So that since that time—", "pos": 588668}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "So from that time, monsieur, we have led the most miserable life imaginable; for you must know, monsieur, that all our provisions are in the cellar. There is our wine in bottles, and our wine in casks; the beer, the oil, and the spices, the bacon, and sausages. And as we are prevented from going down there, we are forced to refuse food and drink to the travelers who come to the house; so that our hostelry is daily going to ruin. If your friend remains another week in my cellar I shall be a ruined man.", "pos": 588789}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And not more than justice, either, you ass! Could you not perceive by our appearance that we were people of quality, and not coiners—say?", "pos": 589322}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Yes, monsieur, you are right. But, hark, hark! There he is!", "pos": 589462}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Somebody has disturbed him, without doubt,", "pos": 589541}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "But he must be disturbed. Here are two English gentlemen just arrived.", "pos": 589603}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well?", "pos": 589694}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Well, the English like good wine, as you may know, monsieur; these have asked for the best. My wife has perhaps requested permission of Monsieur Athos to go into the cellar to satisfy these gentlemen; and he, as usual, has refused. Ah, good heaven! There is the hullabaloo louder than ever!", "pos": 589702}
{"speaker": "English gentleman", "text": "that this madman will not allow these good people access to their own wine! Nonsense, let us break open the door, and if he is too far gone in his madness, well, we will kill him!", "pos": 590407}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Softly, gentlemen!", "pos": 590589}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "let them just come in, these devourers of little children, and we shall see!", "pos": 590779}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Planchet. I will take charge of the one at the top; you look to the one below. Ah, gentlemen, you want battle; and you shall have it.", "pos": 591352}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I can hear D’Artagnan, I think.", "pos": 591573}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes. I am here, my friend.", "pos": 591607}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "we will teach them, these door breakers!", "pos": 591716}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Gentlemen, gentlemen, think of what you are about. Patience, Athos! You are running your heads into a very silly affair; you will be riddled. My lackey and I will have three shots at you, and you will get as many from the cellar. You will then have our swords, with which, I can assure you, my friend and I can play tolerably well. Let me conduct your business and my own. You shall soon have something to drink; I give you my word.", "pos": 592054}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "If there is any left,", "pos": 592546}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What the devil! There must be plenty left, satisfied of that; these two cannot have drunk all the cellar. Gentlemen, return your swords to their scabbards.", "pos": 592699}
{"speaker": "English gentlemen", "text": "Well, provided you replace your pistols in your belt.", "pos": 592882}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Willingly. Now, gentlemen, go up to your room again; and in ten minutes, I will answer for it, you shall have all you desire. Now I am alone, my dear Athos, open the door, I beg of you.", "pos": 592938}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Instantly,", "pos": 593542}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You are wounded,", "pos": 594051}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I! Not at all. I am dead drunk, that’s all, and never did a man more strongly set about getting so. By the Lord, my good host! I must at least have drunk for my part a hundred and fifty bottles.", "pos": 594079}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Mercy! if the lackey has drunk only half as much as the master, I am a ruined man.", "pos": 594276}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Grimaud is a well-bred lackey. He would never think of faring in the same manner as his master; he only drank from the cask. Hark! I don’t think he put the faucet in again. Do you hear it? It is running now.", "pos": 594379}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Some wine!", "pos": 596216}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Some wine! some wine? Why you have drunk more than a hundred pistoles’ worth! I am a ruined man, lost, destroyed!", "pos": 596265}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Bah, we were always dry.", "pos": 596409}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "If you had been contented with drinking, well and good; but you have broken all the bottles.", "pos": 596450}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You pushed me upon a heap which rolled down. That was your fault.", "pos": 596545}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "All my oil is lost!", "pos": 596613}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Oil is a sovereign balm for wounds; and my poor Grimaud here was obliged to dress those you had inflicted on him.", "pos": 596635}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "All my sausages are gnawed!", "pos": 596751}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "There is an enormous quantity of rats in that cellar.", "pos": 596781}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "You shall pay me for all this,", "pos": 596837}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Triple ass!", "pos": 596898}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "This will teach you, to treat the guests God sends you in a more courteous fashion.", "pos": 597107}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "God? Say the devil!", "pos": 597212}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My dear friend, if you annoy us in this manner we will all four go and shut ourselves up in your cellar, and we will see if the mischief is as great as you say.", "pos": 597234}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Oh, gentlemen. I have been wrong. I confess it, but pardon to every sin! You are gentlemen, and I am a poor innkeeper. You will have pity on me.", "pos": 597416}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Ah, if you speak in that way, you will break my heart, and the tears will flow from my eyes as the wine flowed from the cask. We are not such devils as we appear to be. Come hither, and let us talk. Come hither, I say, and don’t be afraid. At the very moment when I was about to pay you, I had placed my purse on the table.", "pos": 597580}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Yes, monsieur.", "pos": 597978}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That purse contained sixty pistoles; where is it?", "pos": 597995}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Deposited with the justice; they said it was bad money.", "pos": 598047}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Very well; get me my purse back and keep the sixty pistoles.", "pos": 598105}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "But Monseigneur knows very well that justice never lets go that which it once lays hold of. If it were bad money, there might be some hopes; but unfortunately, those were all good pieces.", "pos": 598168}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Manage the matter as well as you can, my good man; it does not concern me, the more so as I have not a livre left.", "pos": 598358}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Come, let us inquire further. Athos’s horse, where is that?", "pos": 598475}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "In the stable.", "pos": 598556}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "How much is it worth?", "pos": 598573}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Fifty pistoles at most.", "pos": 598597}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "It’s worth eighty. Take it, and there ends the matter.", "pos": 598623}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "What, are you selling my horse—my Bajazet? And pray upon what shall I make my campaign; upon Grimaud?", "pos": 598680}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I have brought you another,", "pos": 598799}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Another?", "pos": 598846}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "And a magnificent one!", "pos": 598857}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, since there is another finer and younger, why, you may take the old one; and let us drink.", "pos": 598898}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "What?", "pos": 598997}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Some of that at the bottom, near the laths. There are twenty-five bottles of it left; all the rest were broken by my fall. Bring six of them.", "pos": 599043}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Why, this man is a cask! If he only remains here a fortnight, and pays for what he drinks, I shall soon re-establish my business.", "pos": 599187}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And don’t forget, to bring up four bottles of the same sort for the two English gentlemen.", "pos": 599343}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "And now, while they bring the wine, tell me, D’Artagnan, what has become of the others, come! That’s well! here’s to Porthos and Aramis! But you, D’Artagnan, what is the matter with you, and what has happened to you personally? You have a sad air.", "pos": 599455}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Alas, it is because I am the most unfortunate.", "pos": 600023}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Tell me.", "pos": 600091}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Presently,", "pos": 600102}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Presently! And why presently? Because you think I am drunk? D’Artagnan, remember this! My ideas are never so clear as when I have had plenty of wine. Speak, then, I am all ears. Trifles, only trifles!", "pos": 600132}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You always say trifles, my dear Athos! and that comes very ill from you, who have never loved.", "pos": 600490}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That’s true, for my part I have never loved.", "pos": 600714}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Acknowledge, then, you stony heart, that you are wrong to be so hard upon us tender hearts.", "pos": 600781}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Tender hearts! Pierced hearts!", "pos": 600894}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What do you say?", "pos": 600939}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I say that love is a lottery in which he who wins, wins death! You are very fortunate to have lost, believe me, my dear D’Artagnan. And if I have any counsel to give, it is, always lose!", "pos": 600958}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "She seemed to love me so!", "pos": 601147}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "She seemed, did she?", "pos": 601175}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, she did love me!", "pos": 601198}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You child, why, there is not a man who has not believed, as you do, that his mistress loved him, and there lives not a man who has not been deceived by his mistress.", "pos": 601221}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Except you, Athos, who never had one.", "pos": 601389}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That’s true, that’s true! I never had one! Let us drink!", "pos": 601429}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But then, philosopher that you are, instruct me, support me. I stand in need of being taught and consoled.", "pos": 601528}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Consoled for what?", "pos": 601656}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "For my misfortune.", "pos": 601677}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Your misfortune is laughable. I should like to know what you would say if I were to relate to you a real tale of love!", "pos": 601698}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Which has happened to you?", "pos": 601858}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Or one of my friends, what matters?", "pos": 601887}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Tell it, Athos, tell it.", "pos": 601925}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Better if I drink.", "pos": 601952}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Drink and relate, then.", "pos": 601973}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Not a bad idea! The two things agree marvelously well.", "pos": 601999}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I am all attention,", "pos": 602104}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You particularly wish it?", "pos": 602453}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I pray for it,", "pos": 602491}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Be it then as you desire. One of my friends—one of my friends, please to observe, not myself, one of the counts of my province—that is to say, of Berry—noble as a Dandolo or a Montmorency, at twenty-five years of age fell in love with a girl of sixteen, beautiful as fancy can paint. Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, not of the woman, but of the poet. She did not please; she intoxicated. She lived in a small town with her brother, who was a curate. Both had recently come into the country. They came nobody knew whence; but when seeing her so lovely and her brother so pious, nobody thought of asking whence they came. They were said, however, to be of good extraction. My friend, who was seigneur of the country, might have seduced her, or taken her by force, at his will—for he was master. Who would have come to the assistance of two strangers, two unknown persons? Unfortunately he was an honorable man; he married her. The fool! The ass! The idiot!", "pos": 602525}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "How so, if he loved her?", "pos": 603570}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Wait. He took her to his château, and made her the first lady in the province; and in justice it must be allowed that she supported her rank becomingly.", "pos": 603615}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well?", "pos": 603784}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, one day when she was hunting with her husband, she fell from her horse and fainted. The count flew to her to help, and as she appeared to be oppressed by her clothes, he ripped them open with his poniard, and in so doing laid bare her shoulder. D’Artagnan, guess what she had on her shoulder.", "pos": 603810}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "How can I tell?", "pos": 604222}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "A fleur-de-lis. She was branded.", "pos": 604257}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Horror! What do you tell me?", "pos": 604371}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Truth, my friend. The angel was a demon; the poor young girl had stolen the sacred vessels from a church.", "pos": 604422}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And what did the count do?", "pos": 604530}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "The count was of the highest nobility. He had on his estates the rights of high and low tribunals. He tore the dress of the countess to pieces; he tied her hands behind her, and hanged her on a tree.", "pos": 604559}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Heavens, Athos, a murder?", "pos": 604761}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "No less. But methinks I need wine! That has cured me of beautiful, poetical, and loving women. God grant you as much! Let us drink.", "pos": 604807}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Then she is dead?", "pos": 605341}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Parbleu! But hold out your glass. Some ham, my boy, or we can’t drink.", "pos": 605383}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And her brother?", "pos": 605470}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Her brother?", "pos": 605516}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, the priest.", "pos": 605546}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Oh, I inquired after him for the purpose of hanging him likewise; but he was beforehand with me, he had quit the curacy the night before.", "pos": 605565}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Was it ever known who this miserable fellow was?", "pos": 605705}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "He was doubtless the first lover and accomplice of the fair lady. A worthy man, who had pretended to be a curate for the purpose of getting his mistress married, and securing her a position. He has been hanged and quartered, I hope.", "pos": 605756}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My God, my God!", "pos": 605991}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Taste some of this ham, D’Artagnan; it is exquisite. What a pity it is there were only four like this in the cellar. I could have drunk fifty bottles more. These young fellows can none of them drink, and yet this is one of the best!", "pos": 606085}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I was pretty drunk yesterday, D’Artagnan. I can tell that by my tongue, which was swollen and hot this morning, and by my pulse, which was very tremulous. I wager that I uttered a thousand extravagances.", "pos": 607547}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, if I recollect well what you said, it was nothing out of the common way.", "pos": 607848}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Ah, you surprise me. I thought I had told you a most lamentable story.", "pos": 607949}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My faith, it appears that I was more drunk than you, since I remember nothing of the kind.", "pos": 608098}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "you cannot have failed to remark, my dear friend, that everyone has his particular kind of drunkenness, sad or gay. My drunkenness is always sad, and when I am thoroughly drunk my mania is to relate all the lugubrious stories which my foolish nurse inculcated into my brain. That is my failing—a capital failing, I admit; but with that exception, I am a good drinker.", "pos": 608258}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "It is that, then, it is that, then, it is that, then, I remember as we remember a dream. We were speaking of hanging.", "pos": 608714}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Ah, you see how it is. I was sure it was so—the hanging of people is my nightmare.", "pos": 608872}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, yes. I remember now; yes, it was about—stop a minute—yes, it was about a woman.", "pos": 609022}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That’s it, that is my grand story of the fair lady, and when I relate that, I must be very drunk.", "pos": 609131}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, that was it, the story of a tall, fair lady, with blue eyes.", "pos": 609271}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes, who was hanged.", "pos": 609358}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "By her husband, who was a nobleman of your acquaintance,", "pos": 609381}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, you see how a man may compromise himself when he does not know what he says. I certainly never will get drunk again, D’Artagnan; it is too bad a habit. By the by, I thank you for the horse you have brought me.", "pos": 609489}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Is it to your mind?", "pos": 609882}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes; but it is not a horse for hard work.", "pos": 609922}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You are mistaken; I rode him nearly ten leagues in less than an hour and a half, and he appeared no more distressed than if he had only made the tour of the Place St. Sulpice.", "pos": 609966}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Ah, you begin to awaken my regret.", "pos": 610144}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Regret?", "pos": 610181}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes; I have parted with him.", "pos": 610191}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "How?", "pos": 610222}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Why, here is the simple fact. This morning I awoke at six o’clock. You were still fast asleep, and I did not know what to do with myself; I was still stupid from our yesterday’s debauch. As I came into the public room, I saw one of our Englishman bargaining with a dealer for a horse, his own having died yesterday from bleeding. I drew near, and found he was bidding a hundred pistoles for a chestnut nag. ‘Pardieu,’ said I, ‘my good gentleman, I have a horse to sell, too.’ ‘Ay, and a very fine one! I saw him yesterday; your friend’s lackey was leading him.’ ‘Do you think he is worth a hundred pistoles?’ ‘Yes! Will you sell him to me for that sum?’ ‘No; but I will play for him.’ ‘What?’ ‘At dice.’ No sooner said than done, and I lost the horse. Ah, ah! But please to observe I won back the equipage. This vexes you?", "pos": 610229}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, I must confess it does. That horse was to have identified us in the day of battle. It was a pledge, a remembrance. Athos, you have done wrong.", "pos": 611117}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "But, my dear friend, put yourself in my place. I was hipped to death; and still further, upon my honor, I don’t like English horses. If it is only to be recognized, why the saddle will suffice for that; it is quite remarkable enough. As to the horse, we can easily find some excuse for its disappearance. Why the devil! A horse is mortal; suppose mine had had the glanders or the farcy? It vexes me greatly, that you attach so much importance to these animals, for I am not yet at the end of my story.", "pos": 611290}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What else have you done.", "pos": 611866}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "After having lost my own horse, nine against ten—see how near—I formed an idea of staking yours.", "pos": 611893}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes; but you stopped at the idea, I hope?", "pos": 611992}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "No; for I put it in execution that very minute.", "pos": 612036}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And the consequence?", "pos": 612086}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I threw, and I lost.", "pos": 612144}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What, my horse?", "pos": 612167}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Your horse, seven against eight; a point short—you know the proverb.", "pos": 612185}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Athos, you are not in your right senses, I swear.", "pos": 612256}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "My dear lad, that was yesterday, when I was telling you silly stories, it was proper to tell me that, and not this morning. I lost him then, with all his appointments and furniture.", "pos": 612308}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Really, this is frightful.", "pos": 612492}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Stop a minute; you don’t know all yet. I should make an excellent gambler if I were not too hot-headed; but I was hot-headed, just as if I had been drinking. Well, I was not hot-headed then—", "pos": 612521}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, but what else could you play for? You had nothing left?", "pos": 612714}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Oh, yes, my friend; there was still that diamond left which sparkles on your finger, and which I had observed yesterday.", "pos": 612778}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "This diamond!", "pos": 612901}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "And as I am a connoisseur in such things, having had a few of my own once, I estimated it at a thousand pistoles.", "pos": 612972}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I hope, you made no mention of my diamond?", "pos": 613088}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "On the contrary, my dear friend, this diamond became our only resource; with it I might regain our horses and their harnesses, and even money to pay our expenses on the road.", "pos": 613175}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Athos, you make me tremble!", "pos": 613352}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I mentioned your diamond then to my adversary, who had likewise remarked it. What the devil, my dear, do you think you can wear a star from heaven on your finger, and nobody observe it? Impossible!", "pos": 613400}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Go on, go on, my dear fellow! for upon my honor, you will kill me with your indifference.", "pos": 613600}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "We divided, then, this diamond into ten parts of a hundred pistoles each.", "pos": 613711}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You are laughing at me, and want to try me!", "pos": 613787}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "No, I do not jest, mordieu! I should like to have seen you in my place! I had been fifteen days without seeing a human face, and had been left to brutalize myself in the company of bottles.", "pos": 613929}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That was no reason for staking my diamond!", "pos": 614121}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Hear the end. Ten parts of a hundred pistoles each, in ten throws, without revenge; in thirteen throws I had lost all—in thirteen throws. The number thirteen was always fatal to me; it was on the thirteenth of July that—", "pos": 614225}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ventrebleu!", "pos": 614448}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Patience! I had a plan. The Englishman was an original; I had seen him conversing that morning with Grimaud, and Grimaud had told me that he had made him proposals to enter into his service. I staked Grimaud, the silent Grimaud, divided into ten portions.", "pos": 614577}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, what next?", "pos": 614849}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Grimaud himself, understand; and with the ten parts of Grimaud, which are not worth a ducatoon, I regained the diamond. Tell me, now, if persistence is not a virtue?", "pos": 614915}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My faith! But this is droll,", "pos": 615083}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You may guess, finding the luck turned, that I again staked the diamond.", "pos": 615179}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The devil!", "pos": 615254}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I won back your harness, then your horse, then my harness, then my horse, and then I lost again. In brief, I regained your harness and then mine. That’s where we are. That was a superb throw, so I left off there.", "pos": 615306}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Then the diamond is safe?", "pos": 615600}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Intact, my dear friend; besides the harness of your Bucephalus and mine.", "pos": 615646}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But what is the use of harnesses without horses?", "pos": 615721}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I have an idea about them.", "pos": 615772}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Athos, you make me shudder.", "pos": 615801}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Listen to me. You have not played for a long time, D’Artagnan.", "pos": 615831}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And I have no inclination to play.", "pos": 615896}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Swear to nothing. You have not played for a long time, I said; you ought, then, to have a good hand.", "pos": 615933}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, what then?", "pos": 616036}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well; the Englishman and his companion are still here. I remarked that he regretted the horse furniture very much. You appear to think much of your horse. In your place I would stake the furniture against the horse.", "pos": 616055}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But he will not wish for only one harness.", "pos": 616273}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Stake both, pardieu! I am not selfish, as you are.", "pos": 616318}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You would do so?", "pos": 616371}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "On my honor, in one single throw.", "pos": 616497}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But having lost the horses, I am particularly anxious to preserve the harnesses.", "pos": 616533}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Stake your diamond, then.", "pos": 616616}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "This? That’s another matter. Never, never!", "pos": 616644}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "The devil! I would propose to you to stake Planchet, but as that has already been done, the Englishman would not, perhaps, be willing.", "pos": 616689}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Decidedly, my dear Athos. I should like better not to risk anything.", "pos": 616840}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That’s a pity. The Englishman is overflowing with pistoles. Good Lord, try one throw! One throw is soon made!", "pos": 616930}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And if I lose?", "pos": 617064}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You will win.", "pos": 617081}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But if I lose?", "pos": 617097}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, you will surrender the harnesses.", "pos": 617114}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Have with you for one throw!", "pos": 617156}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That’s a sad throw, comrade; you will have the horses fully equipped, monsieur. Hold, hold, hold! that throw of the dice is extraordinary. I have not seen such a one four times in my life. Two aces! Yes, four times only; once at the house of Monsieur Créquy; another time at my own house in the country, in my château at—when I had a château; a third time at Monsieur de Tréville’s where it surprised us all; and the fourth time at a cabaret, where it fell to my lot, and where I lost a hundred louis and a supper on it.", "pos": 617690}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "Then Monsieur takes his horse back again,", "pos": 618596}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Certainly,", "pos": 618661}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "Then there is no revenge?", "pos": 618691}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Our conditions said, ‘No revenge,’ you will please to recollect.", "pos": 618719}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "That is true; the horse shall be restored to your lackey, monsieur.", "pos": 618786}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "A moment, with your permission, monsieur, I wish to speak a word with my friend.", "pos": 618856}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "Say on.", "pos": 618953}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, Tempter, what more do you want with me? You want me to throw again, do you not?", "pos": 618992}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "No, I would wish you to reflect.", "pos": 619099}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "On what?", "pos": 619134}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You mean to take your horse?", "pos": 619145}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Without doubt.", "pos": 619176}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You are wrong, then. I would take the hundred pistoles. You know you have staked the harnesses against the horse or a hundred pistoles, at your choice.", "pos": 619193}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 619347}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, then, I repeat, you are wrong. What is the use of one horse for us two? I could not ride behind. We should look like the two sons of Aymon, who had lost their brother. You cannot think of humiliating me by prancing along by my side on that magnificent charger. For my part, I should not hesitate a moment; I should take the hundred pistoles. We want money for our return to Paris.", "pos": 619354}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I am much attached to that horse, Athos.", "pos": 619743}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "And there again you are wrong. A horse slips and injures a joint; a horse stumbles and breaks his knees to the bone; a horse eats out of a manger in which a glandered horse has eaten. There is a horse, while on the contrary, the hundred pistoles feed their master.", "pos": 619786}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But how shall we get back?", "pos": 620053}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Upon our lackey’s horses, pardieu. Anybody may see by our bearing that we are people of condition.", "pos": 620082}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Pretty figures we shall cut on ponies while Aramis and Porthos caracole on their steeds.", "pos": 620183}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Aramis! Porthos!", "pos": 620274}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 620325}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Nothing, nothing! Go on!", "pos": 620415}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Your advice, then?", "pos": 620442}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "To take the hundred pistoles, D’Artagnan. With the hundred pistoles we can live well to the end of the month. We have undergone a great deal of fatigue, remember, and a little rest will do no harm.", "pos": 620463}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I rest? Oh, no, Athos. Once in Paris, I shall prosecute my search for that unfortunate woman!", "pos": 620663}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, you may be assured that your horse will not be half so serviceable to you for that purpose as good golden louis. Take the hundred pistoles, my friend; take the hundred pistoles!", "pos": 620759}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Holà, Aramis! What the devil are you doing there?", "pos": 621733}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Ah, is that you, D’Artagnan, and you, Athos? I was reflecting upon the rapidity with which the blessings of this world leave us. My English horse, which has just disappeared amid a cloud of dust, has furnished me with a living image of the fragility of the things of the earth. Life itself may be resolved into three words: Erat, est, fuit.", "pos": 621808}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Which means—", "pos": 622173}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Which means that I have just been duped—sixty louis for a horse which by the manner of his gait can do at least five leagues an hour. My dear D’Artagnan, don’t be too angry with me, I beg. Necessity has no law; besides, I am the person punished, as that rascaly horsedealer has robbed me of fifty louis, at least. Ah, you fellows are good managers! You ride on our lackey’s horses, and have your own gallant steeds led along carefully by hand, at short stages. What is this? Nothing but saddles?", "pos": 622237}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Now do you understand?", "pos": 623159}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "My friends, that’s exactly like me! I retained my harness by instinct. Holà, Bazin! Bring my new saddle and carry it along with those of these gentlemen.", "pos": 623196}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And what have you done with your ecclesiastics?", "pos": 623352}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "My dear fellow, I invited them to a dinner the next day. They have some capital wine here—please to observe that in passing. I did my best to make them drunk. Then the curate forbade me to quit my uniform, and the Jesuit entreated me to get him made a Musketeer.", "pos": 623420}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Without a thesis? without a thesis? I demand the suppression of the thesis.", "pos": 623703}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Since then. I have lived very agreeably. I have begun a poem in verses of one syllable. That is rather difficult, but the merit in all things consists in the difficulty. The matter is gallant. I will read you the first canto. It has four hundred lines, and lasts a minute.", "pos": 623801}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My faith, my dear Aramis, add to the merit of the difficulty that of the brevity, and you are sure that your poem will at least have two merits.", "pos": 624096}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "You will see, that it breathes irreproachable passion. And so, my friends, we return to Paris? Bravo! I am ready. We are going to rejoin that good fellow, Porthos. So much the better. You can’t think how I have missed him, the great simpleton. To see him so self-satisfied reconciles me with myself. He would not sell his horse; not for a kingdom! I think I can see him now, mounted upon his superb animal and seated in his handsome saddle. I am sure he will look like the Great Mogul!", "pos": 624314}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ah, pardieu! you come in the nick of time, gentlemen. I was just beginning the soup, and you will dine with me.", "pos": 625236}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, oh! Mousqueton has not caught these bottles with his lasso. Besides, here is a piquant fricandeau and a fillet of beef.", "pos": 625369}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "I am recruiting myself. I am recruiting myself. Nothing weakens a man more than these devilish strains. Did you ever suffer from a strain, Athos?", "pos": 625514}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Never! Though I remember, in our affair of the Rue Férou, I received a sword wound which at the end of fifteen or eighteen days produced the same effect.", "pos": 625678}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "But this dinner was not intended for you alone, Porthos?", "pos": 625834}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "No. I expected some gentlemen of the neighborhood, who have just sent me word they could not come. You will take their places and I shall not lose by the exchange. Holà, Mousqueton, seats, and order double the bottles!", "pos": 625906}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Do you know what we are eating here?", "pos": 626143}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Pardieu! for my part, I am eating veal garnished with shrimps and vegetables.", "pos": 626221}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "And I some lamb chops,", "pos": 626323}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "And I a plain chicken,", "pos": 626362}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You are all mistaken, gentlemen, you are eating horse.", "pos": 626400}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Eating what?", "pos": 626484}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Horse!", "pos": 626516}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes, horse. Are we not eating a horse, Porthos? And perhaps his saddle, therewith.", "pos": 626594}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "No, gentlemen, I have kept the harness,", "pos": 626679}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "My faith, we are all alike. One would think we had tipped the wink.", "pos": 626735}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "What could I do? This horse made my visitors ashamed of theirs, and I don’t like to humiliate people.", "pos": 626820}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Then your duchess is still at the waters?", "pos": 626940}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Still. And, my faith, the governor of the province—one of the gentlemen I expected today—seemed to have such a wish for him, that I gave him to him.", "pos": 627002}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Gave him?", "pos": 627172}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "My God, yes, gave, that is the word, for the animal was worth at least a hundred and fifty louis, and the stingy fellow would only give me eighty.", "pos": 627202}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Without the saddle?", "pos": 627367}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Yes, without the saddle.", "pos": 627402}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You will observe, gentlemen, that Porthos has made the best bargain of any of us.", "pos": 627429}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "There is one comfort, we are all in cash,", "pos": 627736}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, for my part. I found Aramis’s Spanish wine so good that I sent on a hamper of sixty bottles of it in the wagon with the lackeys. That has weakened my purse.", "pos": 627797}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "And I, imagined that I had given almost my last sou to the church of Montdidier and the Jesuits of Amiens, with whom I had made engagements which I ought to have kept. I have ordered Masses for myself, and for you, gentlemen, which will be said, gentlemen, for which I have not the least doubt you will be marvelously benefited.", "pos": 627976}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "And I, do you think my strain cost me nothing?—without reckoning Mousqueton’s wound, for which I had to have the surgeon twice a day, and who charged me double on account of that foolish Mousqueton having allowed himself a ball in a part which people generally only show to an apothecary; so I advised him to try never to get wounded there any more.", "pos": 628322}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Ay, ay! it is very clear you acted nobly with regard to the poor lad; that is like a good master.", "pos": 628690}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "In short, when all my expenses are paid, I shall have, at most, thirty crowns left.", "pos": 628851}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "And I about ten pistoles,", "pos": 628953}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, then it appears that we are the Crœsuses of the society. How much have you left of your hundred pistoles, D’Artagnan?", "pos": 628994}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Of my hundred pistoles? Why, in the first place I gave you fifty.", "pos": 629120}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You think so?", "pos": 629188}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Pardieu! Ah, that is true. I recollect. Then I paid the host six.", "pos": 629204}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "What a brute of a host! Why did you give him six pistoles?", "pos": 629275}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You told me to give them to him.", "pos": 629336}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "It is true; I am too good-natured. In brief, how much remains?", "pos": 629371}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Twenty-five pistoles,", "pos": 629436}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "And I. I—", "pos": 629477}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You? Nothing!", "pos": 629545}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "My faith! So little that it is not worth reckoning with the general stock. Now, then, let us calculate how much we posses in all. Porthos?", "pos": 629561}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Thirty crowns.", "pos": 629706}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Aramis?", "pos": 629723}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Ten pistoles.", "pos": 629733}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "And you, D’Artagnan?", "pos": 629749}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Twenty-five.", "pos": 629772}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That makes in all?", "pos": 629787}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Four hundred and seventy-five livres,", "pos": 629820}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "On our arrival in Paris, we shall still have four hundred, besides the harnesses,", "pos": 629907}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "But our troop horses?", "pos": 630005}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, of the four horses of our lackeys we will make two for the masters, for which we will draw lots. With the four hundred livres we will make the half of one for one of the unmounted, and then we will give the turnings out of our pockets to D’Artagnan, who has a steady hand, and will go and play in the first gaming house we come to. There!", "pos": 630042}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Let us dine, then, it is getting cold.", "pos": 630389}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And what do you reckon your outfit will cost?", "pos": 631449}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Oh, we can scarcely say. We have made our calculations with Spartan economy, and we each require fifteen hundred livres. Four times fifteen makes sixty—six thousand livres,", "pos": 631514}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "It seems to me, with a thousand livres each—I do not speak as a Spartan, but as a procurator—", "pos": 631703}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Stop. I have an idea.", "pos": 631855}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, that’s something, for I have not the shadow of one, but as to D’Artagnan, gentlemen, the idea of belonging to ours has driven him out of his senses. A thousand livres! For my part, I declare I want two thousand.", "pos": 631890}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Four times two makes eight, it is eight thousand that we want to complete our outfits, toward which, it is true, we have already the saddles.", "pos": 632131}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Besides, besides, there is that beautiful ring which beams from the finger of our friend. What the devil! D’Artagnan is too good a comrade to leave his brothers in embarrassment while he wears the ransom of a king on his finger.", "pos": 632295}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "We have still fifteen days before us, well, if at the end of a fortnight I have found nothing, or rather if nothing has come to find me, as I, too good a Catholic to kill myself with a pistol bullet, I will seek a good quarrel with four of his Eminence’s Guards or with eight Englishmen, and I will fight until one of them has killed me, which, considering the number, cannot fail to happen. It will then be said of me that I died for the king; so that I shall have performed my duty without the expense of an outfit.", "pos": 633565}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "I shall follow up on my idea.", "pos": 634202}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Ahem!", "pos": 637873}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Eh, Monsieur Porthos, you don’t offer me any holy water?", "pos": 640284}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ma-madame! is that you? How is your husband, our dear Monsieur Coquenard? Is he still as stingy as ever? Where can my eyes have been not to have seen you during the two hours of the sermon?", "pos": 640441}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "I was within two paces of you, monsieur, but you did not perceive me because you had no eyes but for the pretty lady to whom you just now gave the holy water.", "pos": 640645}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ah, you have remarked—", "pos": 640873}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "I must have been blind not to have seen.", "pos": 640909}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Yes, that is a duchess of my acquaintance whom I have great trouble to meet on account of the jealousy of her husband, and who sent me word that she should come today to this poor church, buried in this vile quarter, solely for the sake of seeing me.", "pos": 640952}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Monsieur Porthos, will you have the kindness to offer me your arm for five minutes? I have something to say to you.", "pos": 641221}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Certainly, madame, winking to himself, as a gambler does who laughs at the dupe he is about to pluck.", "pos": 641369}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Eh, eh! there is one who will be equipped in good time!", "pos": 641612}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Ah, Monsieur Porthos, ah, Monsieur Porthos, you are a great conqueror, as it appears!", "pos": 642073}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "I, madame? how so?", "pos": 642308}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "The signs just now, and the holy water! But that must be a princess, at least—that lady with her Negro boy and her maid!", "pos": 642373}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "My God! Madame, you are deceived, she is simply a duchess.", "pos": 642496}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "And that running footman who waited at the door, and that carriage with a coachman in grand livery who sat waiting on his seat? Ah, you are quite the pet of the ladies, Monsieur Porthos!", "pos": 642573}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Well, you may imagine, with the physique with which nature has endowed me, I am not in want of good luck.", "pos": 643023}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Good Lord, how quickly men forget!", "pos": 643152}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Less quickly than the women, it seems to me, for I, madame, I may say I was your victim, when wounded, dying, I was abandoned by the surgeons. I, the offspring of a noble family, who placed reliance upon your friendship—I was near dying of my wounds at first, and of hunger afterward, in a beggarly inn at Chantilly, without you ever deigning once to reply to the burning letters I addressed to you.", "pos": 643250}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "But, Monsieur Porthos,", "pos": 643671}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "I, who had sacrificed for you the Baronne de—", "pos": 643824}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "I know it well.", "pos": 643872}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "The Comtesse de—", "pos": 643890}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Monsieur Porthos, be generous!", "pos": 643909}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "You are right, madame, and I will not finish.", "pos": 643942}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "But it was my husband who would not hear of lending.", "pos": 643990}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Madame Coquenard, remember the first letter you wrote me, and which I preserve engraved in my memory.", "pos": 644045}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Besides, the sum you required me to borrow was rather large.", "pos": 644204}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Madame Coquenard, I gave you the preference. I had but to write to the Duchesse—but I won’t repeat her name, for I am incapable of compromising a woman; but this I know, that I had but to write to her and she would have sent me fifteen hundred.", "pos": 644279}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Monsieur Porthos. I can assure you that you have severely punished me; and if in the time to come you should find yourself in a similar situation, you have but to apply to me.", "pos": 644561}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Fie, madame, fie! Let us not talk about money, if you please; it is humiliating.", "pos": 644751}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Then you no longer love me!", "pos": 644867}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Think of the offense you have committed toward me, madame! It remains here!", "pos": 645041}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "I will repair it, indeed I will, my dear Porthos.", "pos": 645190}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Besides, what did I ask of you? A loan, nothing more! After all, I am not an unreasonable man. I know you are not rich, Madame Coquenard, and that your husband is obliged to bleed his poor clients to squeeze a few paltry crowns from them. Oh! If you were a duchess, a marchioness, or a countess, it would be quite a different thing; it would be unpardonable.", "pos": 645242}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Please to know, Monsieur Porthos, that my strongbox, the strongbox of a procurator’s wife though it may be, is better filled than those of your affected minxes.", "pos": 645714}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "That doubles the offense, for if you are rich, Madame Coquenard, then there is no excuse for your refusal.", "pos": 645889}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "When I said rich, you must not take the word literally. I am not precisely rich, though I am pretty well off.", "pos": 646070}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Hold, madame, let us say no more upon the subject, I beg of you. You have misunderstood me, all sympathy is extinct between us.", "pos": 646250}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Ingrate that you are!", "pos": 646396}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ah! I advise you to complain!", "pos": 646420}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Begone, then, to your beautiful duchess; I will detain you no longer.", "pos": 646466}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "And she is not to be despised, in my opinion.", "pos": 646538}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Now, Monsieur Porthos, once more, and this is the last! Do you love me still?", "pos": 646586}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ah, madame, when we are about to enter upon a campaign—a campaign, in which my presentiments tell me I shall be killed—", "pos": 646666}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Oh, don’t talk of such things!", "pos": 646849}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Something whispers me so,", "pos": 646932}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Rather say that you have a new love.", "pos": 647014}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Not so; I speak frankly to you. No object affects me; and I even feel here, at the bottom of my heart, something which speaks for you. But in fifteen days, as you know, or as you do not know, this fatal campaign is to open. I shall be fearfully preoccupied with my outfit. Then I must make a journey to see my family, in the lower part of Brittany, to obtain the sum necessary for my departure. And as, the duchess whom you saw at the church has estates near to those of my family, we mean to make the journey together. Journeys, you know, appear much shorter when we travel two in company.", "pos": 647053}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Have you no friends in Paris, then, Monsieur Porthos?", "pos": 647722}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "I thought I had, but I have been taught my mistake.", "pos": 647806}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "You have some! Come to our house tomorrow. You are the son of my aunt, consequently my cousin; you come from Noyon, in Picardy; you have several lawsuits and no attorney. Can you recollect all that?", "pos": 647905}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Perfectly, madame.", "pos": 648181}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Come at dinnertime.", "pos": 648202}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Very well.", "pos": 648224}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "And be upon your guard before my husband, who is rather shrewd, notwithstanding his seventy-six years.", "pos": 648237}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Seventy-six years! Peste! That’s a fine age!", "pos": 648342}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "A great age, you mean, Monsieur Porthos. Yes, the poor man may be expected to leave me a widow, any hour. Fortunately, by our marriage contract, the survivor takes everything.", "pos": 648406}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "All?", "pos": 648643}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Yes, all.", "pos": 648650}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "You are a woman of precaution, I see, my dear Madame Coquenard,", "pos": 648662}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "We are then reconciled, dear Monsieur Porthos?", "pos": 648796}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "For life,", "pos": 648866}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Till we meet again, then, dear traitor!", "pos": 648915}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Till we meet again, my forgetful charmer!", "pos": 648957}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Tomorrow, my angel!", "pos": 649001}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Tomorrow, flame of my life!", "pos": 649023}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "As for me. I am quite at my ease; it will not be women that will defray the expense of my outfit.", "pos": 650260}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Handsome, well-bred, noble lord as you are, my dear Athos, neither princesses nor queens would be secure from your amorous solicitations.", "pos": 650393}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "How young this D’Artagnan is!", "pos": 650533}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "the horses were ready.", "pos": 650753}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "What horses?", "pos": 650777}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Two horses that Monsieur de Tréville lends me at my pleasure, and with which I am now going to take a ride to St. Germain.", "pos": 650805}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, and what are you going to do at St. Germain? That is to say, you are in love with this lady as you were with Madame Bonacieux,", "pos": 650930}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I? not at all! I am only curious to unravel the mystery to which she is attached. I do not know why, but I imagine that this woman, wholly unknown to me as she is, and wholly unknown to her as I am, has an influence over my life.", "pos": 651374}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, perhaps you are right. I do not know a woman that is worth the trouble of being sought for when she is once lost. Madame Bonacieux is lost; so much the worse for her if she is found.", "pos": 651625}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, Athos, no, you are mistaken. I love my poor Constance more than ever, and if I knew the place in which she is, were it at the end of the world, I would go to free her from the hands of her enemies; but I am ignorant. All my researches have been useless. What is to be said? I must divert my attention!", "pos": 651830}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Amuse yourself with Milady, my dear D’Artagnan; I wish you may with all my heart, if that will amuse you.", "pos": 652157}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Hear me, Athos. Instead of shutting yourself up here as if you were under arrest, get on horseback and come and take a ride with me to St. Germain.", "pos": 652265}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "My dear fellow. I ride horses when I have any; when I have none, I go afoot.", "pos": 652434}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well. I ride what I can get; I am not so proud as you. So au revoir, dear Athos.", "pos": 652527}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Au revoir,", "pos": 652719}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Eh, monsieur! don’t you remember that face which is blinking yonder?", "pos": 654380}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, and yet I am certain it is not the first time I have seen that visage.", "pos": 654485}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Parbleu, I believe it is not. Why, it is poor Lubin, the lackey of the Comte de Wardes—he whom you took such good care of a month ago at Calais, on the road to the governor’s country house!", "pos": 654581}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "So it is! I know him now. Do you think he would recollect you?", "pos": 654790}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "My faith, monsieur, he was in such trouble that I doubt if he can have retained a very clear recollection of me.", "pos": 654874}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, go and talk with the boy, and make out if you can from his conversation whether his master is dead.", "pos": 654989}
{"speaker": "maid", "text": "For your master.", "pos": 656388}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "For my master?", "pos": 656407}
{"speaker": "maid", "text": "Yes, and important. Take it quickly.", "pos": 656454}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "For you, monsieur,", "pos": 656851}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "For me? are you sure of that?", "pos": 656927}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Pardieu, monsieur, I can’t be more sure. The soubrette said, ‘For your master.’ I have no other master but you; so—a pretty little lass, my faith, is that soubrette!", "pos": 656978}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A person who takes more interest in you than she is willing to confess wishes to know on what day it will suit you to walk in the forest? Tomorrow, at the Hôtel Field of the Cloth of Gold, a lackey in black and red will wait for your reply.", "pos": 657198}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh! this is rather warm; it appears that Milady and I are anxious about the health of the same person. Well, Planchet, how is the good Monsieur de Wardes? He is not dead, then?", "pos": 657441}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "No, monsieur, he is as well as a man can be with four sword wounds in his body; for you, without question, inflicted four upon the dear gentleman, and he is still very weak, having lost almost all his blood. As I said, monsieur, Lubin did not know me, and told me our adventure from one end to the other.", "pos": 657639}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well done, Planchet! you are the king of lackeys. Now jump onto your horse, and let us overtake the carriage.", "pos": 657946}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Madame, will you permit me to offer you my services? It appears to me that this cavalier has made you very angry. Speak one word, madame, and I take upon myself to punish him for his want of courtesy.", "pos": 658995}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Monsieur, I should with great confidence place myself under your protection if the person with whom I quarrel were not my brother.", "pos": 659331}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah, excuse me, then. You must be aware that I was ignorant of that, madame.", "pos": 659464}
{"speaker": "cavalier", "text": "What is that stupid fellow troubling himself about? Why does not he go about his business?", "pos": 659561}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Stupid fellow yourself! I do not go on because it pleases me to stop here. I speak to you in French, be kind enough, then, to reply to me in the same language. You are Madame’s brother, I learn—be it so; but fortunately you are not mine.", "pos": 659767}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Go on—home!", "pos": 660491}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, monsieur, you appear to be more stupid than I am, for you forget there is a little quarrel to arrange between us two.", "pos": 661006}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "Ah, is it you, my master? It seems you must always be playing some game or other.", "pos": 661143}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes; and that reminds me that I have a revenge to take. We will see, my dear monsieur, if you can handle a sword as skillfully as you can a dice box.", "pos": 661250}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "You see plainly that I have no sword. Do you wish to play the braggart with an unarmed man?", "pos": 661402}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I hope you have a sword at home; but at all events, I have two, and if you like, I will throw with you for one of them.", "pos": 661519}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "Needless. I am well furnished with such playthings.", "pos": 661641}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Very well, my worthy gentleman, pick out the longest, and come and show it to me this evening.", "pos": 661718}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "Where, if you please?", "pos": 661837}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Behind the Luxembourg; that’s a charming spot for such amusements as the one I propose to you.", "pos": 661861}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "That will do; I will be there.", "pos": 661958}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Your hour?", "pos": 661991}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "Six o’clock.", "pos": 662004}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "A propos, you have probably one or two friends?", "pos": 662019}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "I have three, who would be honored by joining in the sport with me.", "pos": 662069}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Three? Marvelous! That falls out oddly! Three is just my number!", "pos": 662139}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "Now, then, who are you?", "pos": 662206}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I am Monsieur d’Artagnan, a Gascon gentleman, serving in the king’s Musketeers. And you?", "pos": 662254}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "I am Lord de Winter, Baron Sheffield.", "pos": 662345}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, then, I am your servant, Monsieur Baron, though you have names rather difficult to recollect.", "pos": 662385}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "But after all, we do not know who you are. We cannot fight with such names; they are names of shepherds.", "pos": 664289}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Therefore your lordship may suppose they are only assumed names,", "pos": 664458}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "Which only gives us a greater desire to know the real ones,", "pos": 664537}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You played very willingly with us without knowing our names, by the same token that you won our horses.", "pos": 664623}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "That is true, but we then only risked our pistoles; this time we risk our blood. One plays with anybody; but one fights only with equals.", "pos": 664743}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "And that is but just. Does that satisfy you? Do you find me of sufficient rank to do me the honor of crossing swords with me?", "pos": 664883}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "Yes, monsieur,", "pos": 665207}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well! now shall I tell you something?", "pos": 665253}
{"speaker": "Englishman", "text": "What?", "pos": 665314}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Why, that is that you would have acted much more wisely if you had not required me to make myself known.", "pos": 665346}
{"speaker": "the Englishman", "text": "Why so?", "pos": 665452}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Because I am believed to be dead, and have reasons for wishing nobody to know I am living; so that I shall be obliged to kill you to prevent my secret from roaming over the fields. Gentlemen, are we ready?", "pos": 665462}
{"speaker": "Englishmen and Frenchmen", "text": "Yes!", "pos": 665857}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "On guard, then!", "pos": 665926}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I could kill you, my Lord, you are completely in my hands; but I spare your life for the sake of your sister.", "pos": 667314}
{"speaker": "the Englishman", "text": "What the devil would you have me do with that?", "pos": 668094}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You can restore it to his family,", "pos": 668164}
{"speaker": "the Englishman", "text": "His family will care much about such a trifle as that! His family will inherit fifteen thousand louis a year from him. Keep the purse for your lackeys.", "pos": 668217}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "And now, my young friend, for you will permit me, I hope, to give you that name, on this very evening, if agreeable to you, I will present you to my sister, Milady Clarik, for I am desirous that she should take you into her good graces; and as she is not in bad odor at court, she may perhaps on some future day speak a word that will not prove useless to you.", "pos": 668413}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "What do you mean to do with that purse?", "pos": 668903}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Why, I meant to pass it over to you, my dear Athos.", "pos": 668959}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Me! why to me?", "pos": 669013}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Why, you killed him! They are the spoils of victory.", "pos": 669030}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I, the heir of an enemy! for whom, then, do you take me?", "pos": 669085}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "It is the custom in war, why should it not be the custom in a duel?", "pos": 669158}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Even on the field of battle, I have never done that.", "pos": 669247}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Then, let us give the money to the lackeys, as Lord de Winter desired us to do.", "pos": 669383}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes, let us give the money to the lackeys—not to our lackeys, but to the lackeys of the Englishmen. For you and your comrades.", "pos": 669484}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "What! you have just lost one woman, whom you call good, charming, perfect; and here you are, running headlong after another.", "pos": 671425}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I loved Madame Bonacieux with my heart, while I only love Milady with my head. In getting introduced to her, my principal object is to ascertain what part she plays at court.", "pos": 671607}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "The part she plays, pardieu! It is not difficult to divine that, after all you have told me. She is some emissary of the cardinal; a woman who will draw you into a snare in which you will leave your head.", "pos": 671795}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The devil! my dear Athos, you view things on the dark side, methinks.", "pos": 672002}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "My dear fellow, I mistrust women. Can it be otherwise? I bought my experience dearly—particularly fair women. Milady is fair, you say?", "pos": 672074}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "She has the most beautiful light hair imaginable!", "pos": 672211}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Ah, my poor D’Artagnan!", "pos": 672263}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Listen to me! I want to be enlightened on a subject; then, when I shall have learned what I desire to know, I will withdraw.", "pos": 672301}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Be enlightened!", "pos": 672428}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "You see, a young gentleman who has held my life in his hands, and who has not abused his advantage, although we have been twice enemies, although it was I who insulted him, and although I am an Englishman. Thank him, then, madame, if you have any affection for me.", "pos": 673151}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "You are welcome, monsieur, you have today acquired eternal rights to my gratitude.", "pos": 673812}
{"speaker": "the procurator’s wife", "text": "It is my cousin! Come in, come in, Monsieur Porthos!", "pos": 682294}
{"speaker": "the procurator", "text": "We are cousins, it appears, Monsieur Porthos?", "pos": 683540}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Yes, monsieur, we are cousins,", "pos": 684285}
{"speaker": "M. Coquenard", "text": "By the female side, I believe?", "pos": 684438}
{"speaker": "M. Coquenard", "text": "Monsieur our cousin will do us the favor of dining with us once before his departure for the campaign, will he not, Madame Coquenard?", "pos": 685334}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "My cousin will not return if he finds that we do not treat him kindly; but otherwise he has so little time to pass in Paris, and consequently to spare to us, that we must entreat him to give us every instant he can call his own previous to his departure.", "pos": 685638}
{"speaker": "Coquenard", "text": "Oh, my legs, my poor legs! where are you?", "pos": 685895}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Indeed! in my cousin’s place, I would not keep such gourmands! They look like shipwrecked sailors who have not eaten for six weeks.", "pos": 686487}
{"speaker": "M. Coquenard", "text": "Oh, oh! here is a soup which is rather inviting.", "pos": 687034}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "What the devil can they smell so extraordinary in this soup?", "pos": 687096}
{"speaker": "M. Coquenard", "text": "One may see that you love your family, Madame Coquenard. You are certainly treating your cousin very handsomely!", "pos": 688003}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "The devil! this is poor work. I respect old age, but I don’t much like it boiled or roasted.", "pos": 688422}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Will you eat any of these beans, Cousin Porthos? Take my advice, don’t touch them.", "pos": 690555}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Devil take me if I taste one of them! Thank you, my cousin, I am no longer hungry.", "pos": 690688}
{"speaker": "M. Coquenard", "text": "Ah, Madame Coquenard! Accept my compliments; your dinner has been a real feast. Lord, how I have eaten!", "pos": 690926}
{"speaker": "M. Coquenard", "text": "Go, young men! go and promote digestion by working. A positive feast! a real feast, epulœ epulorum. Lucullus dines with Lucullus.", "pos": 691641}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "This is fine! I am prettily caught! Now, the sacrifice is consummated! Ah! if I had not the hope of peeping with Madame Coquenard into her husband’s chest! Ah!", "pos": 692458}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "You can come and dine three times a week,", "pos": 693294}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Thanks, madame! but I don’t like to abuse your kindness; besides, I must think of my outfit!", "pos": 693359}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "That’s true, that unfortunate outfit!", "pos": 693470}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Alas, yes, it is so. Oh, of many things! The Musketeers are, as you know, picked soldiers, and they require many things useless to the Guardsmen or the Swiss. Why, they may amount to—", "pos": 693550}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "I hope it does not exceed—", "pos": 694029}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "it does not exceed two thousand five hundred livres! I even think that with economy I could manage it with two thousand livres.", "pos": 694114}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Good God! two thousand livres! Why, that is a fortune! I wished to know the detail, because, having many relatives in business, I was almost sure of obtaining things at a hundred per cent less than you would pay yourself.", "pos": 694244}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ah, ah! that is what you meant to say!", "pos": 694566}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Yes, dear Monsieur Porthos. Thus, for instance, don’t you in the first place want a horse?", "pos": 694623}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Yes, a horse.", "pos": 694716}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Well, then! I can just suit you.", "pos": 694732}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ah! that’s well as regards my horse; but I must have the appointments complete, as they include objects which a Musketeer alone can purchase, and which will not amount, besides, to more than three hundred livres.", "pos": 694767}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Three hundred livres? Then put down three hundred livres,", "pos": 695011}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Then, there is a horse for my lackey, and my valise. As to my arms, it is useless to trouble you about them; I have them.", "pos": 695276}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "A horse for your lackey? but that is doing things in lordly style, my friend.", "pos": 695416}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ah, madame! do you take me for a beggar?", "pos": 695543}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "No; I only thought that a pretty mule makes sometimes as good an appearance as a horse, and it seemed to me that by getting a pretty mule for Mousqueton—", "pos": 695613}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Well, agreed for a pretty mule, you are right, I have seen very great Spanish nobles whose whole suite were mounted on mules. But then you understand, Madame Coquenard, a mule with feathers and bells.", "pos": 695769}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Be satisfied,", "pos": 695988}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "There remains the valise,", "pos": 696032}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Oh, don’t let that disturb you. My husband has five or six valises; you shall choose the best. There is one in particular which he prefers in his journeys, large enough to hold all the world.", "pos": 696075}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Your valise is then empty?", "pos": 696293}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Certainly it is empty,", "pos": 696354}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ah, but the valise I want, is a well-filled one, my dear.", "pos": 696429}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Good! She is charged with some message for me from her mistress; she is about to appoint some rendezvous of which she had not courage to speak.", "pos": 697845}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I wish to say three words to you, Monsieur Chevalier,", "pos": 698092}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Speak, my child, speak. I listen.", "pos": 698173}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Here? Impossible! That which I have to say is too long, and above all, too secret.", "pos": 698228}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, what is to be done?", "pos": 698313}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "If Monsieur Chevalier would follow me?", "pos": 698341}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Where you please, my dear child.", "pos": 698403}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Come, then. Come in here, Monsieur Chevalier, here we shall be alone, and can talk.", "pos": 698438}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And whose room is this, my dear child?", "pos": 698693}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "It is mine, Monsieur Chevalier; it communicates with my mistress’s by that door. But you need not fear. She will not hear what we say; she never goes to bed before midnight. You love my mistress, then, very dearly, Monsieur Chevalier?", "pos": 698734}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, more than I can say, Kitty! I am mad for her!", "pos": 699270}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Alas, monsieur, that is too bad.", "pos": 699352}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What the devil do you see so bad in it?", "pos": 699399}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Because, monsieur, my mistress loves you not at all.", "pos": 699458}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Hein! can she have charged you to tell me so?", "pos": 699530}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, no, monsieur; but out of the regard I have for you, I have taken the resolution to tell you so.", "pos": 699597}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Much obliged, my dear Kitty; but for the intention only—for the information, you must agree, is not likely to be at all agreeable.", "pos": 699699}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "That is to say, you don’t believe what I have told you; is it not so?", "pos": 699832}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "We have always some difficulty in believing such things, my pretty dear, were it only from self-love.", "pos": 699904}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Then you don’t believe me?", "pos": 700008}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I confess that unless you deign to give me some proof of what you advance—", "pos": 700037}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "What do you think of this?", "pos": 700114}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "For me?", "pos": 700184}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No; for another.", "pos": 700231}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "For another?", "pos": 700250}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 700265}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "His name; his name!", "pos": 700272}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Read the address.", "pos": 700312}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Monsieur El Comte de Wardes.", "pos": 700332}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, good Lord, Monsieur Chevalier, what are you doing?", "pos": 700615}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I? nothing,", "pos": 700684}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "You have not answered my first note. Are you indisposed, or have you forgotten the glances you favored me with at the ball of Mme. de Guise? You have an opportunity now, Count; do not allow it to escape.", "pos": 700730}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Poor dear Monsieur d’Artagnan,", "pos": 701034}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You pity me, little one?", "pos": 701150}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, yes, and with all my heart; for I know what it is to be in love.", "pos": 701194}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You know what it is to be in love?", "pos": 701265}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Alas, yes.", "pos": 701374}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, then, instead of pitying me, you would do much better to assist me in avenging myself on your mistress.", "pos": 701387}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "And what sort of revenge would you take?", "pos": 701499}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I would triumph over her, and supplant my rival.", "pos": 701542}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I will never help you in that, Monsieur Chevalier,", "pos": 701593}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And why not?", "pos": 701666}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "For two reasons.", "pos": 701702}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What ones?", "pos": 701721}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "The first is that my mistress will never love you.", "pos": 701734}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "How do you know that?", "pos": 701787}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "You have cut her to the heart.", "pos": 701811}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I? In what can I have offended her—I who ever since I have known her have lived at her feet like a slave? Speak, I beg you!", "pos": 701843}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I will never confess that but to the man—who should read to the bottom of my soul!", "pos": 701969}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Kitty. I will read to the bottom of your soul whenever you like; don’t let that disturb you.", "pos": 702205}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, no, it is not me you love! It is my mistress you love; you told me so just now.", "pos": 702384}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And does that hinder you from letting me know the second reason?", "pos": 702484}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "The second reason, Monsieur the Chevalier, is that in love, everyone for herself!", "pos": 702551}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, are you willing, my dear Kitty, that I should give you a proof of that love which you doubt?", "pos": 703576}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "What love?", "pos": 703706}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Of that which I am ready to feel toward you.", "pos": 703741}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "And what is that proof?", "pos": 703788}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Are you willing that I should this evening pass with you the time I generally spend with your mistress?", "pos": 703814}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, yes, very willing.", "pos": 703920}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, then, come here, my dear, come, and let me tell you that you are the prettiest soubrette I ever saw!", "pos": 703979}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Good God, there is my mistress calling me! Go; go directly! What are you doing?", "pos": 704515}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Well. Are you asleep, that you don’t answer when I ring?", "pos": 704935}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Here am I, Milady, here am I!", "pos": 705093}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Well. I have not seen our Gascon this evening.", "pos": 705421}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "What, Milady! has he not come? Can he be inconstant before being happy?", "pos": 705485}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, no; he must have been prevented by Monsieur de Tréville or Monsieur Dessessart. I understand my game, Kitty; I have this one safe.", "pos": 705573}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "What will you do with him, madame?", "pos": 705710}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What will I do with him? Be easy, Kitty, there is something between that man and me that he is quite ignorant of: he nearly made me lose my credit with his Eminence. Oh, I will be revenged!", "pos": 705747}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I believed that Madame loved him.", "pos": 705939}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I love him? I detest him! An idiot, who held the life of Lord de Winter in his hands and did not kill him, by which I missed three hundred thousand livres’ income.", "pos": 705975}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "That’s true, your son was the only heir of his uncle, and until his majority you would have had the enjoyment of his fortune.", "pos": 706141}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "For all this. I should long ago have revenged myself on him if, and I don’t know why, the cardinal had not requested me to conciliate him.", "pos": 706510}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, yes; but Madame has not conciliated that little woman he was so fond of.", "pos": 706671}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What, the mercer’s wife of the Rue des Fossoyeurs? Has he not already forgotten she ever existed? Fine vengeance that, on my faith! That will do, go into your own room, and tomorrow endeavor again to get me an answer to the letter I gave you.", "pos": 706750}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "For Monsieur de Wardes?", "pos": 707155}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "To be sure; for Monsieur de Wardes.", "pos": 707193}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Now, there is one, who appears to me quite a different sort of a man from that poor Monsieur d’Artagnan.", "pos": 707231}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Go to bed, mademoiselle; I don’t like comments.", "pos": 707352}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, good Lord! what is the matter with you? How pale you are!", "pos": 707633}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The abominable creature,", "pos": 707727}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Silence, silence, begone!", "pos": 707775}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That’s exactly the reason I won’t go,", "pos": 707943}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "What!", "pos": 708000}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Or, at least, I will go—later.", "pos": 708030}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, you love her still,", "pos": 711334}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, Kitty, you are mistaken. I do not love her, but I will avenge myself for her contempt.", "pos": 711447}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, yes, I know what sort of vengeance! You told me that!", "pos": 711540}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What matters it to you, Kitty? You know it is you alone whom I love.", "pos": 711600}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "How can I know that?", "pos": 711671}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "By the scorn I will throw upon her. MADAME, Until the present moment I could not believe that it was to me your first two letters were addressed, so unworthy did I feel myself of such an honor; besides, I was so seriously indisposed that I could not in any case have replied to them. But now I am forced to believe in the excess of your kindness, since not only your letter but your servant assures me that I have the good fortune to be beloved by you. She has no occasion to teach me the way in which a man of spirit may obtain his pardon. I will come and ask mine at eleven o’clock this evening. To delay it a single day would be in my eyes now to commit a fresh offense. From him whom you have rendered the happiest of men, COMTE DE WARDES", "pos": 711694}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "There, give that to Milady. It is the count’s reply. Listen, my dear girl; you cannot but perceive that all this must end, some way or other. Milady may discover that you gave the first billet to my lackey instead of to the count’s; that it is I who have opened the others which ought to have been opened by de Wardes. Milady will then turn you out of doors, and you know she is not the woman to limit her vengeance.", "pos": 713404}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Alas! for whom have I exposed myself to all that?", "pos": 713990}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "For me, I well know, my sweet girl. But I am grateful, I swear to you.", "pos": 714042}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "But what does this note contain?", "pos": 714134}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Milady will tell you.", "pos": 714169}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Ah, you do not love me!", "pos": 714193}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Chapter XXXIV. IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF", "pos": 714755}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "People, in general, only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.", "pos": 715823}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Is it my equipment?", "pos": 716495}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "Yes and no,", "pos": 716517}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Well, but can’t you speak?", "pos": 716551}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "Come, monsieur.", "pos": 716580}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "What do you want with me, my friend?", "pos": 716715}
{"speaker": "Bazin", "text": "A man wishes to see Monsieur at home,", "pos": 716885}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "A man! What man?", "pos": 716940}
{"speaker": "Bazin", "text": "A mendicant.", "pos": 716959}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Give him alms, Bazin, and bid him pray for a poor sinner.", "pos": 716974}
{"speaker": "Bazin", "text": "This mendicant insists upon speaking to you, and pretends that you will be very glad to see him.", "pos": 717034}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Has he sent no particular message for me?", "pos": 717133}
{"speaker": "Bazin", "text": "Yes. If Monsieur Aramis hesitates to come, he said, tell him I am from Tours.", "pos": 717177}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "From Tours! A thousand pardons, gentlemen; but no doubt this man brings me the news I expected.", "pos": 717275}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I believe these fellows have managed their business. What do you think, D’Artagnan?", "pos": 717456}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I know that Porthos was in a fair way, and as to Aramis to tell you the truth, I have never been seriously uneasy on his account. But you, my dear Athos—you, who so generously distributed the Englishman’s pistoles, which were our legitimate property—what do you mean to do?", "pos": 717554}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I am satisfied with having killed that fellow, my boy, seeing that it is blessed bread to kill an Englishman; but if I had pocketed his pistoles, they would have weighed me down like a remorse.", "pos": 717852}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Go to, my dear Athos; you have truly inconceivable ideas.", "pos": 718048}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Let it pass. What do you think of Monsieur de Tréville telling me, when he did me the honor to call upon me yesterday, that you associated with the suspected English, whom the cardinal protects?", "pos": 718108}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That is to say, I visit an Englishwoman—the one I named.", "pos": 718305}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Oh, ay! the fair woman on whose account I gave you advice, which naturally you took care not to adopt.", "pos": 718364}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I gave you my reasons.", "pos": 718469}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes; you look there for your outfit, I think you said.", "pos": 718494}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Not at all. I have acquired certain knowledge that that woman was concerned in the abduction of Madame Bonacieux.", "pos": 718551}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes, I understand now: to find one woman, you court another. It is the longest road, but certainly the most amusing.", "pos": 718667}
{"speaker": "Musketeer", "text": "You have asked for me?", "pos": 719629}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I wish to speak with Monsieur Aramis. Is that your name, monsieur?", "pos": 719674}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "My very own. You have brought me something?", "pos": 719742}
{"speaker": "The mendicant", "text": "Yes, if you show me a certain embroidered handkerchief.", "pos": 719788}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Here it is, here it is. Look.", "pos": 719846}
{"speaker": "The mendicant", "text": "That is right, dismiss your lackey.", "pos": 719988}
{"speaker": "Aramis's Mistress", "text": "My Friend, it is the will of fate that we should be still for some time separated; but the delightful days of youth are not lost beyond return. Perform your duty in camp; I will do mine elsewhere. Accept that which the bearer brings you; make the campaign like a handsome true gentleman, and think of me, who kisses tenderly your black eyes. Adieu; or rather, au revoir.", "pos": 720789}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Golden dreams! Oh, beautiful life! Yes, we are young; yes, we shall yet have happy days! My love, my blood, my life! all, all, all, are thine, my adored mistress!", "pos": 721589}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The devil! my dear Aramis, if these are the prunes that are sent to you from Tours, I beg you will make my compliments to the gardener who gathers them.", "pos": 722276}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "You are mistaken, friend D’Artagnan, this is from my publisher, who has just sent me the price of that poem in one-syllable verse which I began yonder.", "pos": 722450}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah, indeed. Well, your publisher is very generous, my dear Aramis, that’s all I can say.", "pos": 722640}
{"speaker": "Bazin", "text": "How, monsieur? a poem sell so dear as that! It is incredible! Oh, monsieur, you can write as much as you like; you may become equal to Monsieur de Voiture and Monsieur de Benserade. I like that. A poet is as good as an abbé. Ah! Monsieur Aramis, become a poet, I beg of you.", "pos": 722750}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Bazin, my friend. I believe you meddle with my conversation.", "pos": 723042}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah! you sell your productions at their weight in gold. You are very fortunate, my friend; but take care or you will lose that letter which is peeping from your doublet, and which also comes, no doubt, from your publisher.", "pos": 723173}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "My dear D’Artagnan, if you please, we will join our friends; as I am rich, we will today begin to dine together again, expecting that you will be rich in your turn.", "pos": 723509}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My faith! It is long since we have had a good dinner; and I, for my part, have a somewhat hazardous expedition for this evening, and shall not be sorry, I confess, to fortify myself with a few glasses of good old Burgundy.", "pos": 723687}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Agreed, as to the old Burgundy; I have no objection to that,", "pos": 723952}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah, my yellow horse. Aramis, look at that horse!", "pos": 724850}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Oh, the frightful brute!", "pos": 724913}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah, my dear, upon that very horse I came to Paris.", "pos": 724953}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "What, does Monsieur know this horse?", "pos": 725028}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "It is of an original color. I never saw one with such a hide in my life.", "pos": 725084}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "and that was why I got three crowns for him. It must have been for his hide, for, certes, the carcass is not worth eighteen livres. But how did this horse come into your hands, Mousqueton?", "pos": 725219}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "Pray, say nothing about it, monsieur; it is a frightful trick of the husband of our duchess!", "pos": 725410}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "How is that, Mousqueton?", "pos": 725524}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "Why, we are looked upon with a rather favorable eye by a lady of quality, the Duchesse de—but, your pardon; my master has commanded me to be discreet. She had forced us to accept a little souvenir, a magnificent Spanish genet and an Andalusian mule, which were beautiful to look upon. The husband heard of the affair; on their way he confiscated the two magnificent beasts which were being sent to us, and substituted these horrible animals.", "pos": 725551}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Which you are taking back to him?", "pos": 725995}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "Exactly!", "pos": 726048}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, pardieu; though I should like to have seen Porthos on my yellow horse. That would give me an idea of how I looked when I arrived in Paris. But don’t let us hinder you, Mousqueton; go and perform your master’s orders. Is he at home?", "pos": 726200}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "Yes, monsieur, but in a very ill humor. Get up!", "pos": 726438}
{"speaker": "Alas", "text": "I did all for the best! One of our clients is a horsedealer; he owes money to the office, and is backward in his pay. I took the mule and the horse for what he owed us; he assured me that they were two noble steeds.", "pos": 728515}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Well, madame, if he owed you more than five crowns, your horsedealer is a thief.", "pos": 728733}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "There is no harm in trying to buy things cheap, Monsieur Porthos,", "pos": 728832}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "No, madame; but they who so assiduously try to buy things cheap ought to permit others to seek more generous friends.", "pos": 728955}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Monsieur Porthos! Monsieur Porthos! I have been wrong; I see it. I ought not to have driven a bargain when it was to equip a cavalier like you. Stop, in the name of heaven, Monsieur Porthos! Stop, and let us talk.", "pos": 729132}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Talking with you brings me misfortune. Nothing; for that amounts to the same thing as if I asked you for something.", "pos": 729590}
{"speaker": "Mme. Coquenard", "text": "Listen. This evening M. Coquenard is going to the house of the Duc de Chaulnes, who has sent for him. It is for a consultation, which will last three hours at least. Come! We shall be alone, and can make up our accounts.", "pos": 730243}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "In good time. Now you talk, my dear. You pardon me? We shall see,", "pos": 730466}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "She loves him devilishly,", "pos": 732079}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What is that noise? I, the Comte de Wardes.", "pos": 734879}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "he has not even waited for the hour he himself named!", "pos": 735029}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "why do you not enter? Count, Count, you know that I wait for you. Yes, Count. I am happy in the love which your looks and your words have expressed to me every time we have met. I also—I love you. Oh, tomorrow, tomorrow, I must have some pledge from you which will prove that you think of me; and that you may not forget me, take this! No, no! Keep that ring for love of me. Besides, in accepting it, you render me a much greater service than you imagine.", "pos": 735128}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "This woman is full of mysteries,", "pos": 736401}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Poor angel, whom that monster of a Gascon barely failed to kill. do your wounds still make you suffer?", "pos": 736636}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, much,", "pos": 736792}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Be tranquil. I will avenge you—and cruelly!", "pos": 736859}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Peste!", "pos": 736924}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Your Milady, appears to be an infamous creature, but not the less you have done wrong to deceive her. In one fashion or another you have a terrible enemy on your hands.", "pos": 738034}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You notice my ring?", "pos": 738397}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes, it reminds me of a family jewel.", "pos": 738496}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "It is beautiful, is it not?", "pos": 738550}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes, magnificent. I did not think two sapphires of such a fine water existed. Have you traded it for your diamond?", "pos": 738597}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No. It is a gift from my beautiful Englishwoman, or rather Frenchwoman—for I am convinced she was born in France, though I have not questioned her.", "pos": 738728}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That ring comes from Milady?", "pos": 738878}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Her very self; she gave it me last night. Here it is,", "pos": 738982}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "It is impossible it can be she. How could this ring come into the hands of Milady Clarik? And yet it is difficult to suppose such a resemblance should exist between two jewels.", "pos": 739278}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Do you know this ring?", "pos": 739468}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I thought I did, but no doubt I was mistaken. Pray, D’Artagnan, either take off that ring or turn the mounting inside; it recalls such cruel recollections that I shall have no head to converse with you. Don’t ask me for counsel; don’t tell me you are perplexed what to do. But stop! let me look at that sapphire again; the one I mentioned to you had one of its faces scratched by accident. Look, is it not strange?", "pos": 739510}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But from whom did this ring come to you, Athos?", "pos": 740201}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "From my mother, who inherited it from her mother. As I told you, it is an old family jewel.", "pos": 740251}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And you—sold it?", "pos": 740345}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "No. I gave it away in a night of love, as it has been given to you. D’Artagnan, you know I love you; if I had a son I could not love him better. Take my advice, renounce this woman. I do not know her, but a sort of intuition tells me she is a lost creature, and that there is something fatal about her.", "pos": 740396}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You are right. I will have done with her. I own that this woman terrifies me.", "pos": 740974}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Shall you have the courage?", "pos": 741073}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I shall, and instantly.", "pos": 741115}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "In truth, my young friend, you will act rightly, and God grant that this woman, who has scarcely entered into your life, may not leave a terrible trace in it!", "pos": 741163}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Do not depend upon me, madame, for the next meeting. Since my convalescence I have so many affairs of this kind on my hands that I am forced to regulate them a little. When your turn comes, I shall have the honor to inform you of it. I kiss your hands.", "pos": 742134}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What is this letter?", "pos": 743673}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "The answer to Madame’s,", "pos": 743696}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Impossible! It is impossible a gentleman could have written such a letter to a woman. My God! can he have— What do you want with me? and why do you place your hand on me?", "pos": 743755}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I thought that Madame was ill, and I wished to bring her help,", "pos": 744333}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I faint? I? I? Do you take me for half a woman? When I am insulted I do not faint; I avenge myself!", "pos": 744497}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Dear M. D’Artagnan, It is wrong thus to neglect your friends, particularly at the moment you are about to leave them for so long a time. My brother-in-law and myself expected you yesterday and the day before, but in vain. Will it be the same this evening?", "pos": 745604}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Show him in. I am at home to nobody, observe, to nobody.", "pos": 747468}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Bad, very bad. Then, my visit is ill-timed; you, no doubt, stand in need of repose, and I will withdraw.", "pos": 748212}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "No, no! On the contrary, stay, Monsieur d’Artagnan; your agreeable company will divert me.", "pos": 748335}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Alas! can you be cruel enough to put such a question to me—to me, who, from the moment I saw you, have only breathed and sighed through you and for you?", "pos": 749194}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Then you love me?", "pos": 749451}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Have I any need to tell you so? Have you not perceived it?", "pos": 749481}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "It may be; but you know the more hearts are worth the capture, the more difficult they are to be won.", "pos": 749542}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, difficulties do not affright me. I shrink before nothing but impossibilities.", "pos": 749646}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Nothing is impossible, to true love.", "pos": 749749}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Nothing, madame?", "pos": 749806}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Nothing,", "pos": 749825}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I have an enemy.", "pos": 750687}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You, madame! is that possible, my God?—good and beautiful as you are!", "pos": 750706}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "A mortal enemy. An enemy who has insulted me so cruelly that between him and me it is war to the death. May I reckon on you as an auxiliary?", "pos": 750817}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You may, madame. My arm and my life belong to you, like my love.", "pos": 751059}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Then, since you are as generous as you are loving—", "pos": 751152}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well?", "pos": 751233}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Well, from the present time, cease to talk of impossibilities.", "pos": 751262}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Do not overwhelm me with happiness. Avenge me of that infamous De Wardes, and I shall soon know how to get rid of you—you double idiot, you animated sword blade! Fall voluntarily into my arms, hypocritical and dangerous woman, after having abused me with such effrontery, and afterward I will laugh at you with him whom you wish me to kill. I am ready,", "pos": 751372}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "You have understood me, then, dear Monsieur d’Artagnan,", "pos": 751949}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I could interpret one of your looks.", "pos": 752020}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Then you would employ for me your arm which has already acquired so much renown?", "pos": 752059}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Instantly!", "pos": 752142}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But on my part, how should I repay such a service? I know these lovers. They are men who do nothing for nothing.", "pos": 752155}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You know the only reply that I desire, the only one worthy of you and of me! Ah, ah, that is because my happiness appears so impossible to me; and I have such fear that it should fly away from me like a dream that I pant to make a reality of it.", "pos": 752285}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Well, merit this pretended happiness, then!", "pos": 752746}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I am at your orders,", "pos": 752792}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Quite certain?", "pos": 752832}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Only name to me the base man that has brought tears into your beautiful eyes!", "pos": 752881}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Who told you that I had been weeping?", "pos": 752961}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "It appeared to me—", "pos": 753011}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Such women as I never weep. Remember that his name is all my secret.", "pos": 753032}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yet I must know his name.", "pos": 753164}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes, you must; see what confidence I have in you!", "pos": 753192}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You overwhelm me with joy. What is his name?", "pos": 753244}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "You know him.", "pos": 753291}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Indeed.", "pos": 753307}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 753317}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "It is surely not one of my friends?", "pos": 753324}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "If it were one of your friends you would hesitate, then?", "pos": 753446}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Not if it were my own brother!", "pos": 753566}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I love your devotedness,", "pos": 753726}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Alas, do you love nothing else in me?", "pos": 753766}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I love you also, you!", "pos": 753824}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You love me, you! Oh, if that were so, I should lose my reason! His name is— De Wardes; I know it,", "pos": 753988}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "And how do you know it? Tell me, tell me, tell me, I say, how do you know it?", "pos": 754607}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "How do I know it? I know it because yesterday Monsieur de Wardes, in a saloon where I was, showed a ring which he said he had received from you.", "pos": 754907}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Wretch!", "pos": 755080}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well? Well, I will avenge you of this wretch,", "pos": 755198}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Thanks, my brave friend! and when shall I be avenged?", "pos": 755333}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Tomorrow—immediately—when you please! Tomorrow, you will be avenged, or I shall be dead.", "pos": 755405}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "No, you will avenge me; but you will not be dead. He is a coward.", "pos": 755865}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "With women, perhaps; but not with men. I know something of him.", "pos": 755945}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But it seems you had not much reason to complain of your fortune in your contest with him.", "pos": 756011}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Fortune is a courtesan; favorable yesterday, she may turn her back tomorrow.", "pos": 756104}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Which means that you now hesitate?", "pos": 756183}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, I do not hesitate; God forbid! But would it be just to allow me to go to a possible death without having given me at least something more than hope?", "pos": 756220}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Is that all?—speak, then. That is but too just,", "pos": 756415}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, you are an angel!", "pos": 756544}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Then all is agreed?", "pos": 756593}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Except that which I ask of you, dear love.", "pos": 756625}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But when I assure you that you may rely on my tenderness?", "pos": 756670}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I cannot wait till tomorrow.", "pos": 756730}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Silence! I hear my brother. It will be useless for him to find you here. Go out this way, and come back at eleven o’clock; we will then terminate this conversation. Kitty will conduct you to my chamber. Well, mademoiselle, what are you thinking about, standing there like a statue? Do as I bid you: show the chevalier out; and this evening at eleven o’clock—you have heard what I said.", "pos": 756761}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "It appears that these appointments are all made for eleven o’clock, that’s a settled custom. But. I must not play the fool. This woman is certainly a great liar. I must take care.", "pos": 757286}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Come in.", "pos": 759485}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Are you afraid, dear Monsieur d’Artagnan?", "pos": 762273}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You cannot think so, dear love! but now, suppose this poor Comte de Wardes were less guilty than you think him?", "pos": 762317}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "At all events, he has deceived me, and from the moment he deceived me, he merited death.", "pos": 762453}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "He shall die, then, since you condemn him! I am quite ready, but in the first place I should like to be certain of one thing.", "pos": 762570}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "And what is that?", "pos": 763135}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That is, whether you really love me?", "pos": 763169}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I have given you proof of that, it seems to me.", "pos": 763208}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And I am yours, body and soul!", "pos": 763258}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Thanks, my brave lover; but as you are satisfied of my love, you must, in your turn, satisfy me of yours. Is it not so?", "pos": 763291}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Certainly; but if you love me as much as you say, do you not entertain a little fear on my account?", "pos": 763413}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What have I to fear?", "pos": 763537}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Why, that I may be dangerously wounded—killed even.", "pos": 763560}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Impossible! you are such a valiant man, and such an expert swordsman.", "pos": 763614}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You would not, then, prefer a method, which would equally avenge you while rendering the combat useless?", "pos": 763702}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Really. I believe you now begin to hesitate.", "pos": 763967}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, I do not hesitate; but I really pity this poor Comte de Wardes, since you have ceased to love him. I think that a man must be so severely punished by the loss of your love that he stands in need of no other chastisement.", "pos": 764026}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Who told you that I loved him?", "pos": 764253}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "At least, I am now at liberty to believe, without too much fatuity, that you love another, and I repeat that I am really interested for the count.", "pos": 764309}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "You?", "pos": 764501}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, I.", "pos": 764522}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "And why you?", "pos": 764532}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Because I alone know— That he is far from being, or rather having been, so guilty toward you as he appears.", "pos": 764547}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Indeed! explain yourself, for I really cannot tell what you mean.", "pos": 764667}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes; I am a man of honor, and since your love is mine, and I am satisfied I possess it—for I do possess it, do I not?", "pos": 764875}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Entirely; go on.", "pos": 765044}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, I feel as if transformed—a confession weighs on my mind.", "pos": 765063}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "A confession!", "pos": 765128}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "If I had the least doubt of your love I would not make it, but you love me, my beautiful mistress, do you not?", "pos": 765144}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Without doubt.", "pos": 765257}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Then if through excess of love I have rendered myself culpable toward you, you will pardon me?", "pos": 765274}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Perhaps.", "pos": 765371}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "This confession, what is this confession? You gave De Wardes a meeting on Thursday last in this very room, did you not?", "pos": 765474}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "No, no! It is not true. Do not lie, my angel,", "pos": 765625}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "that would be useless.", "pos": 765874}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What do you mean? Speak! you kill me.", "pos": 765899}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Be satisfied; you are not guilty toward me, and I have already pardoned you.", "pos": 765939}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What next? what next?", "pos": 766018}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "De Wardes cannot boast of anything.", "pos": 766042}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "How is that? You told me yourself that that ring—", "pos": 766080}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That ring I have! The Comte de Wardes of Thursday and the D’Artagnan of today are the same person.", "pos": 766132}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Ah, wretch! you have basely betrayed me, and still more, you have my secret! You shall die.", "pos": 767421}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, beautiful lady, very well, pardieu, if you don’t calm yourself, I will design a second fleur-de-lis upon one of those pretty cheeks!", "pos": 768821}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Scoundrel, infamous scoundrel!", "pos": 768978}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Quick, Kitty, quick! let me get out of the hôtel; for if we leave her time to turn round, she will have me killed by the servants.", "pos": 769886}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "But you can’t go out so, you are naked.", "pos": 770086}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That’s true, that’s true. But dress me as well as you are able, only make haste; think, my dear girl, it’s life and death!", "pos": 770142}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Don’t open!", "pos": 770722}
{"speaker": "Grimaud", "text": "Holloa, there! what do you want, you strumpet? What’s your business here, you hussy?", "pos": 771775}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Hold your tongue, you stupid fellow! I am D’Artagnan; don’t you know me? Where is your master?", "pos": 772132}
{"speaker": "Grimaud", "text": "You, Monsieur d’Artagnan! impossible.", "pos": 772251}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Grimaud, I thought I heard you permitting yourself to speak?", "pos": 772379}
{"speaker": "Grimaud", "text": "Ah, monsieur, it is—", "pos": 772442}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Silence!", "pos": 772465}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Don’t laugh, my friend! for heaven’s sake, don’t laugh, for upon my soul, it’s no laughing matter!", "pos": 772796}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Are you wounded, my friend? How pale you are!", "pos": 773057}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, but I have just met with a terrible adventure! Are you alone, Athos?", "pos": 773105}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Parbleu! whom do you expect to find with me at this hour?", "pos": 773180}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, well!", "pos": 773240}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Come, speak! Is the king dead? Have you killed the cardinal? You are quite upset! Come, come, tell me; I am dying with curiosity and uneasiness!", "pos": 773298}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Athos, prepare yourself to hear an incredible, an unheard-of story.", "pos": 773531}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, but put on this dressing gown first. Well?", "pos": 773684}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well. Milady is marked with a fleur-de-lis upon her shoulder!", "pos": 773903}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Ah!", "pos": 774047}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Let us see. Are you sure that the other is dead?", "pos": 774117}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "The other?", "pos": 774187}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, she of whom you told me one day at Amiens. This is a woman of twenty-six or twenty-eight years.", "pos": 774270}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Fair, is she not?", "pos": 774434}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Very.", "pos": 774468}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Blue and clear eyes, of a strange brilliancy, with black eyelids and eyebrows?", "pos": 774476}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 774557}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Tall, well-made? She has lost a tooth, next to the eyetooth on the left?", "pos": 774564}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 774639}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "The fleur-de-lis is small, rosy in color, and looks as if efforts had been made to efface it by the application of poultices?", "pos": 774646}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 774774}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "But you say she is English?", "pos": 774781}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "She is called Milady, but she may be French. Lord de Winter is only her brother-in-law.", "pos": 774811}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I will see her, D’Artagnan!", "pos": 774901}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Beware, Athos, beware. You tried to kill her; she is a woman to return you the like, and not to fail.", "pos": 774931}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "She will not dare to say anything; that would be to denounce herself.", "pos": 775035}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "She is capable of anything or everything. Did you ever see her furious?", "pos": 775107}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "No,", "pos": 775181}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "A tigress, a panther! Ah, my dear Athos, I am greatly afraid I have drawn a terrible vengeance on both of us!", "pos": 775199}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You are right; and upon my soul, I would give my life for a hair. Fortunately, the day after tomorrow we leave Paris. We are going according to all probability to La Rochelle, and once gone—", "pos": 775391}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "She will follow you to the end of the world, Athos, if she recognizes you. Let her, then, exhaust her vengeance on me alone!", "pos": 775598}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "My dear friend, of what consequence is it if she kills me? Do you, perchance, think I set any great store by life?", "pos": 775725}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "There is something horribly mysterious under all this, Athos; this woman is one of the cardinal’s spies, I am sure of that.", "pos": 775856}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "In that case, take care! If the cardinal does not hold you in high admiration for the affair of London, he entertains a great hatred for you; but as, considering everything, he cannot accuse you openly, and as hatred must be satisfied, particularly when it’s a cardinal’s hatred, take care of yourself. If you go out, do not go out alone; when you eat, use every precaution. Mistrust everything, in short, even your own shadow.", "pos": 775982}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Fortunately, all this will be only necessary till after tomorrow evening, for when once with the army, we shall have, I hope, only men to dread.", "pos": 776412}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "In the meantime. I renounce my plan of seclusion, and wherever you go, I will go with you. You must return to the Rue des Fossoyeurs; I will accompany you.", "pos": 776578}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But however near it may be. I cannot go thither in this guise.", "pos": 776750}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That’s true. All this will not advance your outfit, for if I am not mistaken, you have left the best of your apparel with Milady, and she will certainly not have the politeness to return it to you. Fortunately, you have the sapphire.", "pos": 776837}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The jewel is yours, my dear Athos! Did you not tell me it was a family jewel?", "pos": 777299}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes, my grandfather gave two thousand crowns for it, as he once told me. It formed part of the nuptial present he made his wife, and it is magnificent. My mother gave it to me, and I, fool as I was, instead of keeping the ring as a holy relic, gave it to this wretch.", "pos": 777379}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Then. Then, my friend, take back this ring, to which I see you attach much value.", "pos": 777649}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I take back the ring, after it has passed through the hands of that infamous creature? Never; that ring is defiled, D’Artagnan.", "pos": 777727}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Sell it, then.", "pos": 777857}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Sell a jewel which came from my mother! I vow I should consider it a profanation.", "pos": 777874}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Pledge it, then; you can borrow at least a thousand crowns on it. With that sum you can extricate yourself from your present difficulties; and when you are full of money again, you can redeem it, and take it back cleansed from its ancient stains, as it will have passed through the hands of usurers.", "pos": 777958}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You are a capital companion, D’Artagnan, your never-failing cheerfulness raises poor souls in affliction. Well, let us pledge the ring, but upon one condition.", "pos": 778274}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What?", "pos": 778447}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That there shall be five hundred crowns for you, and five hundred crowns for me.", "pos": 778455}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Don’t dream it, Athos. I don’t need the quarter of such a sum—I who am still only in the Guards—and by selling my saddles, I shall procure it. What do I want? A horse for Planchet, that’s all. Besides, you forget that I have a ring likewise.", "pos": 778538}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "To which you attach more value, it seems, than I do to mine; at least, I have thought so.", "pos": 778782}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, for in any extreme circumstance it might not only extricate us from some great embarrassment, but even a great danger. It is not only a valuable diamond, but it is an enchanted talisman.", "pos": 778874}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I don’t at all understand you, but I believe all you say to be true. Let us return to my ring, or rather to yours. You shall take half the sum that will be advanced upon it, or I will throw it into the Seine; and I doubt, as was the case with Polycrates, whether any fish will be sufficiently complaisant to bring it back to us.", "pos": 779068}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, I will take it, then,", "pos": 779399}
{"speaker": "Bonacieux", "text": "Make haste, dear lodger, there is a very pretty girl waiting for you upstairs; and you know women don’t like to be kept waiting.", "pos": 780017}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That’s Kitty!", "pos": 780159}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "You have promised your protection; you have promised to save me from her anger. Remember, it is you who have ruined me!", "pos": 780401}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, yes, to be sure, Kitty, be at ease, my girl. But what happened after my departure?", "pos": 780523}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "How can I tell! The lackeys were brought by the cries she made. She was mad with passion. There exist no imprecations she did not pour out against you. Then I thought she would remember it was through my chamber you had penetrated hers, and that then she would suppose I was your accomplice; so I took what little money I had and the best of my things, and I got away.", "pos": 780632}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Poor dear girl! But what can I do with you? I am going away the day after tomorrow.", "pos": 781016}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Do what you please, Monsieur Chevalier. Help me out of Paris; help me out of France!", "pos": 781102}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I cannot take you, however, to the siege of La Rochelle,", "pos": 781189}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "No; but you can place me in one of the provinces with some lady of your acquaintance—in your own country, for instance.", "pos": 781265}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My dear little love! In my country the ladies do without chambermaids. But stop! I can manage your business for you. Planchet, go and find Aramis. Request him to come here directly. We have something very important to say to him.", "pos": 781387}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I understand, but why not Porthos? I should have thought that his duchess—", "pos": 781619}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, Porthos’s duchess is dressed by her husband’s clerks. Besides, Kitty would not like to live in the Rue aux Ours. Isn’t it so, Kitty?", "pos": 781710}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I do not care where I live, provided I am well concealed, and nobody knows where I am.", "pos": 781878}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Meanwhile, Kitty, when we are about to separate, and you are no longer jealous of me—", "pos": 781981}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Monsieur Chevalier, far off or near. I shall always love you.", "pos": 782069}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Where the devil will constancy niche itself next?", "pos": 782147}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And I, also. I also. I shall always love you; be sure of that. But now answer me. I attach great importance to the question I am about to put to you. Did you never hear talk of a young woman who was carried off one night?", "pos": 782215}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "There, now! Oh, Monsieur Chevalier, do you love that woman still?", "pos": 782458}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, no; it is one of my friends who loves her—Monsieur Athos, this gentleman here.", "pos": 782526}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I?", "pos": 782611}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You, to be sure! You know the interest we both take in this poor little Madame Bonacieux. Besides, Kitty will tell nothing; will you, Kitty? You understand, my dear girl, she is the wife of that frightful baboon you saw at the door as you came in.", "pos": 782713}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, my God! You remind me of my fright! If he should have known me again!", "pos": 783029}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "How? know you again? Did you ever see that man before?", "pos": 783105}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "He came twice to Milady’s.", "pos": 783162}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That’s it. About what time?", "pos": 783191}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Why, about fifteen or eighteen days ago.", "pos": 783221}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Exactly so.", "pos": 783264}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "And yesterday evening he came again.", "pos": 783278}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yesterday evening?", "pos": 783317}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Yes, just before you came.", "pos": 783338}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My dear Athos, we are enveloped in a network of spies. And do you believe he knew you again, Kitty?", "pos": 783367}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "I pulled down my hood as soon as I saw him, but perhaps it was too late.", "pos": 783469}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Go down, Athos—he mistrusts you less than me—and see if he be still at his door.", "pos": 783544}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "He has gone, and the house door is shut.", "pos": 783669}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "He has gone to make his report, and to say that all the pigeons are at this moment in the dovecot.", "pos": 783723}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, then, let us all fly, and leave nobody here but Planchet to bring us news.", "pos": 783824}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "A minute. Aramis, whom we have sent for!", "pos": 783921}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That’s true, we must wait for Aramis.", "pos": 783964}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Will it be really rendering you a service, D’Artagnan?", "pos": 784249}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I shall be grateful to you all my life.", "pos": 784306}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Very well. Madame de Bois-Tracy asked me, for one of her friends who resides in the provinces, I believe, for a trustworthy maid. If you can, my dear D’Artagnan, answer for Mademoiselle—", "pos": 784348}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "Oh, monsieur, be assured that I shall be entirely devoted to the person who will give me the means of quitting Paris.", "pos": 784537}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Then, this falls out very well.", "pos": 784657}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And now, my dear girl, you know that it is not good for any of us to be here. Therefore let us separate. We shall meet again in better days.", "pos": 784820}
{"speaker": "Kitty", "text": "And whenever we find each other, in whatever place it may be, you will find me loving you as I love you today.", "pos": 784982}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Dicers’ oaths!", "pos": 785109}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "How much did the Jew say he would give for the sapphire if he purchased it?", "pos": 787000}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Five hundred pistoles.", "pos": 787090}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That is to say, two hundred more—a hundred pistoles for you and a hundred pistoles for me. Well, now, that would be a real fortune to us, my friend; let us go back to the Jew’s again.", "pos": 787115}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What! will you—", "pos": 787301}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "This ring would certainly only recall very bitter remembrances; then we shall never be masters of three hundred pistoles to redeem it, so that we really should lose two hundred pistoles by the bargain. Go and tell him the ring is his, D’Artagnan, and bring back the two hundred pistoles with you.", "pos": 787319}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Reflect, Athos!", "pos": 787618}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Ready money is needful for the present time, and we must learn how to make sacrifices. Go, D’Artagnan, go; Grimaud will accompany you with his musketoon.", "pos": 787636}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Be, on Thursday next, at from six to seven o’clock in the evening, on the road to Chaillot, and look carefully into the carriages that pass; but if you have any consideration for your own life or that of those who love you, do not speak a single word, do not make a movement which may lead anyone to believe you have recognized her who exposes herself to everything for the sake of seeing you but for an instant.", "pos": 788848}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That’s a snare, don’t go, D’Artagnan.", "pos": 789296}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And yet. I think I recognize the writing.", "pos": 789350}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "It may be counterfeit. Between six and seven o’clock the road of Chaillot is quite deserted; you might as well go and ride in the forest of Bondy.", "pos": 789416}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But suppose we all go, what the devil! They won’t devour us all four, four lackeys, horses, arms, and all!", "pos": 789579}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "And besides, it will be a chance for displaying our new equipments,", "pos": 789707}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "But if it is a woman who writes, and that woman desires not to be seen, remember, you compromise her, D’Artagnan; which is not the part of a gentleman.", "pos": 789791}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "We will remain in the background, and he will advance alone.", "pos": 789960}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; but a pistol shot is easily fired from a carriage which goes at a gallop.", "pos": 790039}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Bah! they will miss me; if they fire we will ride after the carriage, and exterminate those who may be in it. They must be enemies.", "pos": 790120}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "He is right, battle. Besides, we must try our own arms.", "pos": 790273}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Bah, let us enjoy that pleasure, with his mild and careless manner.", "pos": 790347}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "As you please,", "pos": 790430}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Gentlemen, it is half past four, and we have scarcely time to be on the road of Chaillot by six.", "pos": 790459}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Besides, if we go out too late, nobody will see us, and that will be a pity. Let us get ready, gentlemen.", "pos": 790577}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "But this second letter, you forget that; it appears to me, however, that the seal denotes that it deserves to be opened. For my part, I declare, D’Artagnan, I think it of much more consequence than the little piece of waste paper you have so cunningly slipped into your bosom.", "pos": 790701}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, let us see, gentlemen, what are his Eminence’s commands,", "pos": 791014}
{"speaker": "LA HOUDINIERE", "text": "M. d’Artagnan, of the king’s Guards, company Dessessart, is expected at the Palais-Cardinal this evening, at eight o’clock.", "pos": 791135}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "LA HOUDINIERE, Captain of the Guards", "pos": 791260}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "The devil! here’s a rendezvous much more serious than the other.", "pos": 791299}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I will go to the second after attending the first. One is for seven o’clock, and the other for eight; there will be time for both.", "pos": 791380}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Hum! I would not go at all. A gallant knight cannot decline a rendezvous with a lady; but a prudent gentleman may excuse himself from not waiting on his Eminence, particularly when he has reason to believe he is not invited to make his compliments.", "pos": 791532}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "I am of Aramis’s opinion,", "pos": 791797}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Gentlemen. I have already received by Monsieur de Cavois a similar invitation from his Eminence. I neglected it, and on the morrow a serious misfortune happened to me—Constance disappeared. Whatever may ensue, I will go.", "pos": 791839}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "If you are determined, do so.", "pos": 792084}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "But the Bastille?", "pos": 792130}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Bah! you will get me out if they put me there,", "pos": 792163}
{"speaker": "Aramis and Porthos", "text": "To be sure we will, to be sure we will get you out; but meantime, as we are to set off the day after tomorrow, you would do much better not to risk this Bastille.", "pos": 792229}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Let us do better than that, do not let us leave him during the whole evening. Let each of us wait at a gate of the palace with three Musketeers behind him; if we see a close carriage, at all suspicious in appearance, come out, let us fall upon it. It is a long time since we have had a skirmish with the Guards of Monsieur the Cardinal; Monsieur de Tréville must think us dead.", "pos": 792513}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "To a certainty, Athos, you were meant to be a general of the army! What do you think of the plan, gentlemen?", "pos": 792907}
{"speaker": "young men", "text": "Admirable!", "pos": 793033}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Well. I will run to the hôtel, and engage our comrades to hold themselves in readiness by eight o’clock; the rendezvous, the Place du Palais-Cardinal. Meantime, you see that the lackeys saddle the horses.", "pos": 793079}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I have no horse, but that is of no consequence, I can take one of Monsieur de Tréville’s.", "pos": 793302}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "That is not worth while, you can have one of mine.", "pos": 793413}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "One of yours! how many have you, then?", "pos": 793481}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Three,", "pos": 793540}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Certes, you are the best-mounted poet of France or Navarre.", "pos": 793574}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, my dear Aramis, you don’t want three horses? I cannot comprehend what induced you to buy three!", "pos": 793651}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Therefore I only purchased two,", "pos": 793755}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The third, then, fell from the clouds, I suppose?", "pos": 793802}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "No, the third was brought to me this very morning by a groom out of livery, who would not tell me in whose service he was, and who said he had received orders from his master.", "pos": 793854}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Or his mistress,", "pos": 794032}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "That makes no difference, and who affirmed, as I said, that he had received orders from his master or mistress to place the horse in my stable, without informing me whence it came.", "pos": 794075}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "It is only to poets that such things happen,", "pos": 794283}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, in that case, we can manage famously, which of the two horses will you ride—that which you bought or the one that was given to you?", "pos": 794351}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "That which was given to me, assuredly. You cannot for a moment imagine, D’Artagnan, that I would commit such an offense toward—", "pos": 794510}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The unknown giver,", "pos": 794640}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Or the mysterious benefactress,", "pos": 794685}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The one you bought will then become useless to you?", "pos": 794731}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Nearly so.", "pos": 794785}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And you selected it yourself?", "pos": 794798}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "With the greatest care. The safety of the horseman, you know, depends almost always upon the goodness of his horse.", "pos": 794830}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, transfer it to me at the price it cost you?", "pos": 794948}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I was going to make you the offer, my dear D’Artagnan, giving you all the time necessary for repaying me such a trifle.", "pos": 795000}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "How much did it cost you?", "pos": 795122}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Eight hundred livres.", "pos": 795150}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Here are forty double pistoles, my dear friend. I know that is the coin in which you were paid for your poems.", "pos": 795174}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "You are rich, then?", "pos": 795338}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Rich? Richest, my dear fellow!", "pos": 795373}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Send your saddle, then, to the hôtel of the Musketeers, and your horse can be brought back with ours.", "pos": 795474}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Very well; but it is already five o’clock, so make haste.", "pos": 795578}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "The devil! you have a magnificent horse there, Porthos.", "pos": 796174}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Yes, it is the one that ought to have been sent to me at first. A bad joke of the husband’s substituted the other; but the husband has been punished since, and I have obtained full satisfaction.", "pos": 796248}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "If that be the case, they are doubtless transporting her from one prison to another. But what can they intend to do with the poor creature, and how shall I ever meet her again?", "pos": 800232}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Friend, remember that it is the dead alone with whom we are not likely to meet again on this earth. You know something of that, as well as I do, I think. Now, if your mistress is not dead, if it is she we have just seen, you will meet with her again some day or other. And perhaps, my God! perhaps sooner than you wish.", "pos": 800430}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "If De Wardes has related all our affair to the cardinal, which is not to be doubted, and if he has recognized me, as is probable, I may consider myself almost as a condemned man. But why has he waited till now? That’s all plain enough. Milady has laid her complaints against me with that hypocritical grief which renders her so interesting, and this last offense has made the cup overflow. Fortunately, my good friends are down yonder, and they will not allow me to be carried away without a struggle. Nevertheless, Monsieur de Tréville’s company of Musketeers alone cannot maintain a war against the cardinal, who disposes of the forces of all France, and before whom the queen is without power and the king without will. D’Artagnan, my friend, you are brave, you are prudent, you have excellent qualities; but the women will ruin you!", "pos": 802748}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Monsieur, are you a D’Artagnan from Béarn?", "pos": 805789}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, monseigneur,", "pos": 805855}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "There are several branches of the D’Artagnans at Tarbes and in its environs, to which do you belong?", "pos": 805898}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I am the son of him who served in the Religious Wars under the great King Henry, the father of his gracious Majesty.", "pos": 806022}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "That is well. It is you who set out seven or eight months ago from your country to seek your fortune in the capital?", "pos": 806141}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, monseigneur.", "pos": 806260}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "You came through Meung, where something befell you. I don’t very well know what, but still something.", "pos": 806280}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Monseigneur, this was what happened to me—", "pos": 806384}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Never mind, never mind! You were recommended to Monsieur de Tréville, were you not?", "pos": 806448}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, monseigneur; but in that unfortunate affair at Meung—", "pos": 806649}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "The letter was lost, yes, I know that. But Monsieur de Tréville is a skilled physiognomist, who knows men at first sight; and he placed you in the company of his brother-in-law, Monsieur Dessessart, leaving you to hope that one day or other you should enter the Musketeers.", "pos": 806710}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Monseigneur is correctly informed,", "pos": 807010}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Since that time many things have happened to you. You were walking one day behind the Chartreux, when it would have been better if you had been elsewhere. Then you took with your friends a journey to the waters of Forges; they stopped on the road, but you continued yours. That is all very simple: you had business in England.", "pos": 807064}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Monseigneur. I went—", "pos": 807393}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Hunting at Windsor, or elsewhere—that concerns nobody. I know, because it is my office to know everything. On your return you were received by an august personage, and I perceive with pleasure that you preserve the souvenir she gave you. The day after that, you received a visit from Cavois. He went to desire you to come to the palace. You have not returned that visit, and you were wrong.", "pos": 807451}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Monseigneur, I went— Monseigneur, I feared I had incurred disgrace with your Eminence.", "pos": 807996}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "How could that be, monsieur? Could you incur my displeasure by having followed the orders of your superiors with more intelligence and courage than another would have done? It is the people who do not obey that I punish, and not those who, like you, obey—but too well. As a proof, remember the date of the day on which I had you bidden to come to me, and seek in your memory for what happened to you that very night. In short, as I have heard nothing of you for some time past, I wished to know what you were doing. Besides, you owe me some thanks. You must yourself have remarked how much you have been considered in all the circumstances. That, arose not only from a feeling of natural equity, but likewise from a plan I have marked out with respect to you. I wished to explain this plan to you on the day you received my first invitation; but you did not come. Fortunately, nothing is lost by this delay, and you are now about to hear it. Sit down there, before me, D’Artagnan; you are gentleman enough not to listen standing. You are brave, Monsieur d’Artagnan, you are prudent, which is still better. I like men of head and heart. Don’t be afraid. By men of heart I mean men of courage. But young as you are, and scarcely entering into the world, you have powerful enemies; if you do not take great heed, they will destroy you.", "pos": 808064}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Alas, monseigneur! very easily, no doubt, for they are strong and well supported, while I am alone.", "pos": 810037}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Yes, that’s true; but alone as you are, you have done much already, and will do still more, I don’t doubt. Yet you have need, I believe, to be guided in the adventurous career you have undertaken; for, if I mistake not, you came to Paris with the ambitious idea of making your fortune.", "pos": 810164}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I am at the age of extravagant hopes, monseigneur,", "pos": 810452}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "There are no extravagant hopes but for fools, monsieur, and you are a man of understanding. Now, what would you say to an ensign’s commission in my Guards, and a company after the campaign?", "pos": 810522}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah, monseigneur.", "pos": 810714}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "You accept it, do you not?", "pos": 810733}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Monseigneur,", "pos": 810762}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "How? You refuse?", "pos": 810822}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I am in his Majesty’s Guards, monseigneur, and I have no reason to be dissatisfied.", "pos": 810880}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "But it appears to me that my Guards—mine—are also his Majesty’s Guards; and whoever serves in a French corps serves the king.", "pos": 810966}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Monseigneur, your Eminence has ill understood my words.", "pos": 811094}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "You want a pretext, do you not? I comprehend. Well, you have this excuse: advancement, the opening campaign, the opportunity which I offer you—so much for the world. As regards yourself, the need of protection; for it is fit you should know, Monsieur d’Artagnan, that I have received heavy and serious complaints against you. You do not consecrate your days and nights wholly to the king’s service. In fact. I have here a whole pile which concerns you. I know you to be a man of resolution; and your services, well directed, instead of leading you to ill, might be very advantageous to you. Come; reflect, and decide.", "pos": 811152}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Your goodness confounds me, monseigneur, and I am conscious of a greatness of soul in your Eminence that makes me mean as an earthworm; but since Monseigneur permits me to speak freely—", "pos": 811857}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Yes; speak.", "pos": 812086}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Then, I will presume to say that all my friends are in the king’s Musketeers and Guards, and that by an inconceivable fatality my enemies are in the service of your Eminence; I should, therefore, be ill received here and ill regarded there if I accepted what Monseigneur offers me.", "pos": 812100}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Do you happen to entertain the haughty idea that I have not yet made you an offer equal to your value?", "pos": 812384}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Monseigneur, your Eminence is a hundred times too kind to me; and on the contrary, I think I have not proved myself worthy of your goodness. The siege of La Rochelle is about to be resumed, monseigneur. I shall serve under the eye of your Eminence, and if I have the good fortune to conduct myself at the siege in such a manner as merits your attention, then I shall at least leave behind me some brilliant action to justify the protection with which you honor me. Everything is best in its time, monseigneur. Hereafter, perhaps, I shall have the right of giving myself; at present I shall appear to sell myself.", "pos": 812534}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "That is to say, you refuse to serve me, monsieur, remain free, then, and guard your hatreds and your sympathies.", "pos": 813149}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Monseigneur—", "pos": 813366}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Well, well. I don’t wish you any ill; but you must be aware that it is quite trouble enough to defend and recompense our friends. We owe nothing to our enemies; and let me give you a piece of advice; take care of yourself, Monsieur d’Artagnan, for from the moment I withdraw my hand from behind you, I would not give an obolus for your life.", "pos": 813381}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I will try to do so, monseigneur,", "pos": 813746}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Remember at a later period and at a certain moment, if any mischance should happen to you, that it was I who came to seek you, and that I did all in my power to prevent this misfortune befalling you.", "pos": 813827}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I shall entertain, whatever may happen, an eternal gratitude toward your Eminence for that which you now do for me.", "pos": 814062}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Well, let it be, then, as you have said, Monsieur d’Artagnan; we shall see each other again after the campaign. I will have my eye upon you, for I shall be there, and on our return, well—we will settle our account!", "pos": 814244}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah, monseigneur, spare me the weight of your displeasure. Remain neutral monseigneur, if you find that I act as becomes a gallant man.", "pos": 814557}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Young man, if I shall be able to say to you at another time what I have said to you today, I promise you to do so.", "pos": 814714}
{"speaker": "Aramis and Porthos", "text": "And you were right,", "pos": 816196}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You have done that which you ought to have done, D’Artagnan; but perhaps you have been wrong.", "pos": 816351}
{"speaker": "Bassompierre", "text": "You will see, gentlemen, that we shall be fools enough to take La Rochelle.", "pos": 822803}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "If there is a third shot. I am a lost man.", "pos": 830505}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah, my poor friends! where are you? And that you should fail me!", "pos": 832311}
{"speaker": "M. Dessessart", "text": "Monsieur is about to ask for some men of good will for a dangerous mission, but one which will do honor to those who shall accomplish it; and I made you a sign in order that you might hold yourself in readiness.", "pos": 833453}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Thanks, my captain!", "pos": 833667}
{"speaker": "Monsieur", "text": "I want for this mission three or four volunteers, led by a man who can be depended upon.", "pos": 834120}
{"speaker": "M. Dessessart", "text": "As to the man to be depended upon, I have him under my hand, monsieur, and as to the four or five volunteers, Monsieur has but to make his intentions known, and the men will not be wanting.", "pos": 834211}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Four men of good will who will risk being killed with me!", "pos": 834449}
{"speaker": "the bandit", "text": "Oh, do not kill me! Pardon, pardon, my officer, and I will tell you all.", "pos": 838604}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Is your secret of enough importance to me to spare your life for it?", "pos": 838699}
{"speaker": "the bandit", "text": "Yes; if you think existence worth anything to a man of twenty, as you are, and who may hope for everything, being handsome and brave, as you are.", "pos": 838812}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Wretch, speak quickly! Who employed you to assassinate me?", "pos": 838960}
{"speaker": "the bandit", "text": "A woman whom I don’t know, but who is called Milady.", "pos": 839041}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But if you don’t know this woman, how do you know her name?", "pos": 839096}
{"speaker": "the bandit", "text": "My comrade knows her, and called her so. It was with him she agreed, and not with me; he even has in his pocket a letter from that person, who attaches great importance to you, as I have heard him say.", "pos": 839158}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But how did you become concerned in this villainous affair?", "pos": 839362}
{"speaker": "the bandit", "text": "He proposed to me to undertake it with him, and I agreed.", "pos": 839424}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And how much did she give you for this fine enterprise?", "pos": 839484}
{"speaker": "the bandit", "text": "A hundred louis.", "pos": 839542}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, come! she thinks I am worth something. A hundred louis? Well, that was a temptation for two wretches like you. I understand why you accepted it, and I grant you my pardon; but upon one condition.", "pos": 839561}
{"speaker": "the soldier", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 839797}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That you will go and fetch me the letter your comrade has in his pocket.", "pos": 839875}
{"speaker": "the bandit", "text": "But, that is only another way of killing me. How can I go and fetch that letter under the fire of the bastion?", "pos": 839950}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You must nevertheless make up your mind to go and get it, or I swear you shall die by my hand.", "pos": 840083}
{"speaker": "the bandit", "text": "Pardon, monsieur; pity! In the name of that young lady you love, and whom you perhaps believe dead but who is not!", "pos": 840180}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And how do you know there is a young woman whom I love, and that I believed that woman dead?", "pos": 840423}
{"speaker": "the bandit", "text": "By that letter which my comrade has in his pocket.", "pos": 840536}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You see, then, that I must have that letter. So no more delay, no more hesitation; or else whatever may be my repugnance to soiling my sword a second time with the blood of a wretch like you, I swear by my faith as an honest man—", "pos": 840589}
{"speaker": "the wounded man", "text": "Stop, stop! I will go—I will go!", "pos": 840927}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Stop. I will show you the difference between a man of courage and such a coward as you. Stay where you are; I will go myself.", "pos": 841546}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Since you have lost sight of that woman and she is now in safety in the convent, which you should never have allowed her to reach, try, at least, not to miss the man. If you do, you know that my hand stretches far, and that you shall pay very dearly for the hundred louis you have from me.", "pos": 842838}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But what were you to do with that woman?", "pos": 843586}
{"speaker": "the wounded man", "text": "We were to have conveyed her to a hôtel in the Place Royale,", "pos": 843661}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, yes! that’s the place—Milady’s own residence!", "pos": 843746}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Come, I will not abandon you thus. Lean upon me, and let us return to the camp.", "pos": 844802}
{"speaker": "the man", "text": "Yes, but is it not to have me hanged?", "pos": 844884}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You have my word, for the second time I give you your life.", "pos": 844988}
{"speaker": "GODEAU, Purveyor of the Musketeers", "text": "M. D’ARTAGNAN, MM. Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, after having had an entertainment at my house and enjoying themselves very much, created such a disturbance that the provost of the castle, a rigid man, has ordered them to be confined for some days; but I accomplish the order they have given me by forwarding to you a dozen bottles of my Anjou wine, with which they are much pleased. They are desirous that you should drink to their health in their favorite wine. I have done this, and am, monsieur, with great respect, Your very humble and obedient servant,", "pos": 847269}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That’s all well! They think of me in their pleasures, as I thought of them in my troubles. Well, I will certainly drink to their health with all my heart, but I will not drink alone.", "pos": 847862}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Pardieu! you could not have arrived in better time; the dinner cannot have had time to get cold! Can it, gentlemen?", "pos": 850758}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ah, ah! it appears we are feasting!", "pos": 850979}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I hope, there are no women at your dinner.", "pos": 851033}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Is there any drinkable wine in your tavern?", "pos": 851093}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, pardieu! there is yours, my dear friend,", "pos": 851152}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Our wine!", "pos": 851221}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, that you sent me.", "pos": 851257}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "We sent you wine?", "pos": 851282}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You know very well—the wine from the hills of Anjou.", "pos": 851302}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes, I know what brand you are talking about.", "pos": 851357}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The wine you prefer.", "pos": 851405}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, in the absence of champagne and chambertin, you must content yourselves with that.", "pos": 851428}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "And so, connoisseurs in wine as we are, we have sent you some Anjou wine?", "pos": 851519}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Not exactly, it is the wine that was sent by your order.", "pos": 851609}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "On our account?", "pos": 851668}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Did you send this wine, Aramis?", "pos": 851713}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "No; and you, Porthos?", "pos": 851759}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "No; and you, Athos?", "pos": 851783}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "No!", "pos": 851805}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "If it was not you, it was your purveyor. Our purveyor! Yes, your purveyor, Godeau—the purveyor of the Musketeers.", "pos": 851811}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "My faith! never mind where it comes from, let us taste it, and if it is good, let us drink it.", "pos": 851948}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "No, don’t let us drink wine which comes from an unknown source.", "pos": 852061}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You are right, Athos. Did none of you charge your purveyor, Godeau, to send me some wine? Here is his letter,", "pos": 852141}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "This is not his writing! I am acquainted with it; before we left Villeroy I settled the accounts of the regiment.", "pos": 852389}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "A false letter altogether, we have not been disciplined.", "pos": 852519}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "D’Artagnan, how could you believe that we had made a disturbance?", "pos": 852632}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Thou alarmest me! what has happened?", "pos": 852770}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Look you, my friends! a horrible suspicion crosses my mind! Can this be another vengeance of that woman?", "pos": 852888}
{"speaker": "Brisemont", "text": "Ah! ah! this is frightful! You pretend to pardon me, and you poison me!", "pos": 853482}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I! I, wretch? What do you say?", "pos": 853594}
{"speaker": "Brisemont", "text": "I say that it was you who gave me the wine; I say that it was you who desired me to drink it. I say you wished to avenge yourself on me, and I say that it is horrible!", "pos": 853647}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Do not think so, Brisemont, do not think so. I swear to you, I protest—", "pos": 853817}
{"speaker": "Brisemont", "text": "Oh, but God is above! God will punish you! My God, grant that he may one day suffer what I suffer!", "pos": 853910}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Upon the Gospel. I swear to you that the wine was poisoned and that I was going to drink of it as you did.", "pos": 854011}
{"speaker": "Brisemont", "text": "I do not believe you,", "pos": 854179}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, my friends, you come once more to save my life, not only mine but that of these gentlemen. Gentlemen, I request you will be silent with regard to this adventure. Great personages may have had a hand in what you have seen, and if talked about, the evil would only recoil upon us.", "pos": 854413}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "ah, monsieur, what an escape I have had!", "pos": 854817}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "How, sirrah! you were going to drink my wine?", "pos": 854860}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "To the health of the king, monsieur; I was going to drink a small glass of it if Fourreau had not told me I was called.", "pos": 854908}
{"speaker": "Fourreau", "text": "Alas! I wanted to get him out of the way that I might drink myself.", "pos": 855030}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Gentlemen, you may easily comprehend that such a feast can only be very dull after what has taken place; so accept my excuses, and put off the party till another day, I beg of you.", "pos": 855197}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "In the first place, let us leave this chamber; the dead are not agreeable company, particularly when they have died a violent death.", "pos": 855719}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I commit the corpse of this poor devil to your care. Let him be interred in holy ground. He committed a crime, it is true; but he repented of it. you see, my dear friend, that this is war to the death.", "pos": 855883}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes, yes. I perceive that plainly; but do you really believe it is she?", "pos": 856465}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I am sure of it.", "pos": 856553}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Nevertheless, I confess I still doubt.", "pos": 856572}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Athos, she is your wife, I tell you,", "pos": 856754}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes; but I should think the other must be dead, I hanged her so effectually.", "pos": 856880}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But in either case, what is to be done?", "pos": 857013}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "The fact is, one cannot remain thus, with a sword hanging eternally over his head. We must extricate ourselves from this position.", "pos": 857075}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But how?", "pos": 857222}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Listen! You must try to see her, and have an explanation with her. Say to her: ‘Peace or war! My word as a gentleman never to say anything of you, never to do anything against you; on your side, a solemn oath to remain neutral with respect to me. If not, I will apply to the chancellor, I will apply to the king, I will apply to the hangman, I will move the courts against you, I will denounce you as branded, I will bring you to trial; and if you are acquitted, well, by the faith of a gentleman, I will kill you at the corner of some wall, as I would a mad dog.’", "pos": 857233}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I like the means well enough, but where and how to meet with her?", "pos": 857800}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.", "pos": 857887}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes; but to wait surrounded by assassins and poisoners.", "pos": 858047}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Bah! God has preserved us hitherto, God will preserve us still.", "pos": 858105}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, we. Besides, we are men; and everything considered, it is our lot to risk our lives; but she,", "pos": 858185}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "What she?", "pos": 858313}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Constance.", "pos": 858338}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Madame Bonacieux! Ah, that’s true! My poor friend, I had forgotten you were in love.", "pos": 858351}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "have you not learned by the letter you found on the wretched corpse that she is in a convent? One may be very comfortable in a convent; and as soon as the siege of La Rochelle is terminated, I promise you on my part—", "pos": 858478}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Good, good! Yes, my dear Aramis, we all know that your views have a religious tendency.", "pos": 858697}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I am only temporarily a Musketeer,", "pos": 858802}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "It is some time since we heard from his mistress. But take no notice; we know all about that.", "pos": 858860}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "it appears to me that the means are very simple.", "pos": 859008}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What?", "pos": 859059}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "You say she is in a convent?", "pos": 859085}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 859133}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Very well. As soon as the siege is over, we’ll carry her off from that convent.", "pos": 859140}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But we must first learn what convent she is in.", "pos": 859222}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "That’s true,", "pos": 859272}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Don’t you say, dear D’Artagnan, that it is the queen who has made choice of the convent for her?", "pos": 859338}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I believe so, at least.", "pos": 859437}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "In that case Porthos will assist us.", "pos": 859463}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "And how so, if you please?", "pos": 859502}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Why, by your marchioness, your duchess, your princess. She must have a long arm.", "pos": 859531}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Hush! I believe her to be a cardinalist; she must know nothing of the matter.", "pos": 859614}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I take upon myself to obtain intelligence of her.", "pos": 859761}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You, Aramis? You! And how?", "pos": 859813}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "By the queen’s almoner, to whom I am very intimately allied,", "pos": 859869}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Who goes there?", "pos": 867868}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who goes there, yourselves?", "pos": 867886}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That is not an answer. Who goes there? Answer, or we charge.", "pos": 867945}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Beware of what you are about, gentlemen!", "pos": 868025}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "It is some superior officer making his night rounds. What do you wish, gentlemen?", "pos": 868123}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who are you?", "pos": 868221}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Answer in your turn, or you may repent of your disobedience.", "pos": 868286}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "King’s Musketeers.", "pos": 868349}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What company?", "pos": 868460}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Company of Tréville.", "pos": 868476}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Advance, and give an account of what you are doing here at this hour.", "pos": 868499}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Your pardon, my officer, but we were ignorant with whom we had to do, and you may see that we were keeping good guard.", "pos": 868918}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your name?", "pos": 869053}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "But yourself, monsieur, give me, I beg you, the proof that you have the right to question me.", "pos": 869131}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your name?", "pos": 869286}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Monsieur the Cardinal!", "pos": 869392}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Your name?", "pos": 869448}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Athos,", "pos": 869501}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "These three Musketeers shall follow us. I am not willing it should be known I have left the camp; and if they follow us we shall be certain they will tell nobody.", "pos": 869588}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "We are gentlemen, monseigneur, require our parole, and give yourself no uneasiness. Thank God, we can keep a secret.", "pos": 869781}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "You have a quick ear, Monsieur Athos, but now listen to this. It is not from mistrust that I request you to follow me, but for my security. Your companions are no doubt Messieurs Porthos and Aramis.", "pos": 869979}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes, your Eminence,", "pos": 870201}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "I know you, gentlemen. I know you. I know you are not quite my friends, and I am sorry you are not so; but I know you are brave and loyal gentlemen, and that confidence may be placed in you. Monsieur Athos, do me, then, the honor to accompany me; you and your two friends, and then I shall have an escort to excite envy in his Majesty, if we should meet him.", "pos": 870306}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, upon my honor, your Eminence is right in taking us with you; we have seen several ill-looking faces on the road, and we have even had a quarrel at the Red Dovecot with four of those faces.", "pos": 870745}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "A quarrel, and what for, gentlemen? you know I don’t like quarrelers.", "pos": 870956}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "And that is the reason why I have the honor to inform your Eminence of what has happened; for you might learn it from others, and upon a false account believe us to be in fault.", "pos": 871049}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "What have been the results of your quarrel?", "pos": 871229}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "My friend, Aramis, here, has received a slight sword wound in the arm, but not enough to prevent him, as your Eminence may see, from mounting to the assault tomorrow, if your Eminence orders an escalade.", "pos": 871313}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "But you are not the men to allow sword wounds to be inflicted upon you thus. Come, be frank, gentlemen, you have settled accounts with somebody! Confess; you know I have the right of giving absolution.", "pos": 871519}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I, monseigneur? I did not even draw my sword, but I took him who offended me round the body, and threw him out of the window. It appears that in falling, he broke his thigh.", "pos": 871744}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Ah, ah! and you, Monsieur Porthos?", "pos": 871975}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "I, monseigneur, knowing that dueling is prohibited—I seized a bench, and gave one of those brigands such a blow that I believe his shoulder is broken.", "pos": 872033}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Very well, and you, Monsieur Aramis?", "pos": 872186}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Monseigneur, being of a very mild disposition, and being, likewise, of which Monseigneur perhaps is not aware, about to enter into orders, I endeavored to appease my comrades, when one of these wretches gave me a wound with a sword, treacherously, across my left arm. Then I admit my patience failed me; I drew my sword in my turn, and as he came back to the charge, I fancied I felt that in throwing himself upon me, he let it pass through his body. I only know for a certainty that he fell; and it seemed to me that he was borne away with his two companions.", "pos": 872246}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "The devil, gentlemen! three men placed hors de combat in a cabaret squabble! You don’t do your work by halves. And pray what was this quarrel about?", "pos": 872809}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "These fellows were drunk, and knowing there was a lady who had arrived at the cabaret this evening, they wanted to force her door.", "pos": 872981}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Force her door! and for what purpose?", "pos": 873128}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "To do her violence, without doubt. I have had the honor of informing your Eminence that these men were drunk.", "pos": 873189}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "And was this lady young and handsome?", "pos": 873315}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "We did not see her, monseigneur,", "pos": 873409}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "You did not see her? Ah, very well. You did well to defend the honor of a woman; and as I am going to the Red Dovecot myself, I shall know if you have told me the truth.", "pos": 873456}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Monseigneur, we are gentlemen, and to save our heads we would not be guilty of a falsehood.", "pos": 873661}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Therefore I do not doubt what you say, Monsieur Athos, I do not doubt it for a single instant; but, to change the conversation, was this lady alone?", "pos": 873780}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "The lady had a cavalier shut up with her, but as notwithstanding the noise, this cavalier did not show himself, it is to be presumed that he is a coward.", "pos": 873943}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "‘Judge not rashly’, says the Gospel. And now, gentlemen, that’s well. I know what I wish to know; follow me.", "pos": 874114}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Advance, gentlemen. You have told me the truth, my gentlemen, and it will not be my fault if our encounter this evening be not advantageous to you. In the meantime, follow me. Have you any chamber on the ground floor where these gentlemen can wait near a good fire?", "pos": 875060}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "I have this,", "pos": 875798}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "That will do. Enter, gentlemen, and be kind enough to wait for me; I shall not be more than half an hour.", "pos": 875822}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Listen, Milady, the affair is important. Sit down, and let us talk it over.", "pos": 877222}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Milady!", "pos": 877321}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I listen to your Eminence with greatest attention,", "pos": 877347}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "A small vessel with an English crew, whose captain is on my side, awaits you at the mouth of Charente, at Fort La Pointe*. He will set sail tomorrow morning.", "pos": 877455}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I must go thither tonight?", "pos": 877697}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Instantly! That is to say, when you have received my instructions. Two men, whom you will find at the door on going out, will serve you as escort. You will allow me to leave first; then, after half an hour, you can go away in your turn.", "pos": 877726}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes, monseigneur. Now let us return to the mission with which you wish to charge me; and as I desire to continue to merit the confidence of your Eminence, deign to unfold it to me in terms clear and precise, that I may not commit an error.", "pos": 877965}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "You will go to London. Arrived in London, you will seek Buckingham.", "pos": 878870}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I must beg your Eminence to observe, that since the affair of the diamond studs, about which the duke always suspected me, his Grace distrusts me.", "pos": 878966}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Well, this time, it is not necessary to steal his confidence, but to present yourself frankly and loyally as a negotiator.", "pos": 879130}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Frankly and loyally,", "pos": 879276}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Yes, frankly and loyally. All this negotiation must be carried on openly.", "pos": 879361}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I will follow your Eminence’s instructions to the letter. I only wait till you give them.", "pos": 879479}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "You will go to Buckingham in my behalf, and you will tell him I am acquainted with all the preparations he has made; but that they give me no uneasiness, since at the first step he takes I will ruin the queen.", "pos": 879571}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Will he believe that your Eminence is in a position to accomplish the threat thus made?", "pos": 879783}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Yes; for I have the proofs.", "pos": 879873}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I must be able to present these proofs for his appreciation.", "pos": 879903}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Without doubt. And you will tell him I will publish the report of Bois-Robert and the Marquis de Beautru, upon the interview which the duke had at the residence of Madame the Constable with the queen on the evening Madame the Constable gave a masquerade. You will tell him, in order that he may not doubt, that he came there in the costume of the Great Mogul, which the Chevalier de Guise was to have worn, and that he purchased this exchange for the sum of three thousand pistoles.", "pos": 879966}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Well, monseigneur?", "pos": 880451}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "All the details of his coming into and going out of the palace—on the night when he introduced himself in the character of an Italian fortune teller—you will tell him, that he may not doubt the correctness of my information; that he had under his cloak a large white robe dotted with black tears, death’s heads, and crossbones—for in case of a surprise, he was to pass for the phantom of the White Lady who, as all the world knows, appears at the Louvre every time any great event is impending.", "pos": 880472}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Is that all, monseigneur?", "pos": 880969}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Tell him also that I am acquainted with all the details of the adventure at Amiens; that I will have a little romance made of it, wittily turned, with a plan of the garden and portraits of the principal actors in that nocturnal romance.", "pos": 880997}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I will tell him that.", "pos": 881236}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Tell him further that I hold Montague in my power; that Montague is in the Bastille; that no letters were found upon him, it is true, but that torture may make him tell much of what he knows, and even what he does not know.", "pos": 881260}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Exactly.", "pos": 881486}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Then add that his Grace has, in the precipitation with which he quit the Isle of Ré, forgotten and left behind him in his lodging a certain letter from Madame de Chevreuse which singularly compromises the queen, inasmuch as it proves not only that her Majesty can love the enemies of the king but that she can conspire with the enemies of France. You recollect perfectly all I have told you, do you not?", "pos": 881497}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Your Eminence will judge: the ball of Madame the Constable; the night at the Louvre; the evening at Amiens; the arrest of Montague; the letter of Madame de Chevreuse.", "pos": 881903}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "That’s it, that’s it. You have an excellent memory, Milady.", "pos": 882072}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But, if, in spite of all these reasons, the duke does not give way and continues to menace France?", "pos": 882155}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "The duke is in love to madness, or rather to folly. Like the ancient paladins, he has only undertaken this war to obtain a look from his lady love. If he becomes certain that this war will cost the honor, and perhaps the liberty, of the lady of his thoughts, as he says, I will answer for it he will look twice.", "pos": 882328}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "And yet, if he persists?", "pos": 882686}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "If he persists? That is not probable.", "pos": 882851}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "It is possible,", "pos": 882912}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "If he persists— If he persists—well, then I shall hope for one of those events which change the destinies of states.", "pos": 882943}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "If your Eminence would quote to me some one of these events in history, perhaps I should partake of your confidence as to the future.", "pos": 883104}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Well, here, for example, when, in 1610, for a cause similar to that which moves the duke, King Henry IV., of glorious memory, was about, at the same time, to invade Flanders and Italy, in order to attack Austria on both sides. Well, did there not happen an event which saved Austria? Why should not the king of France have the same chance as the emperor?", "pos": 883255}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Your Eminence means, I presume, the knife stab in the Rue de la Feronnerie?", "pos": 883630}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Precisely,", "pos": 883708}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Does not your Eminence fear that the punishment inflicted upon Ravaillac may deter anyone who might entertain the idea of imitating him?", "pos": 883740}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "There will be, in all times and in all countries, particularly if religious divisions exist in those countries, fanatics who ask nothing better than to become martyrs. Ay, and observe—it just occurs to me that the Puritans are furious against Buckingham, and their preachers designate him as the Antichrist.", "pos": 883879}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Well?", "pos": 884189}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Well, the only thing to be sought for at this moment is some woman, handsome, young, and clever, who has cause of quarrel with the duke. The duke has had many affairs of gallantry; and if he has fostered his amours by promises of eternal constancy, he must likewise have sown the seeds of hatred by his eternal infidelities.", "pos": 884210}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "No doubt, such a woman may be found.", "pos": 884587}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Well, such a woman, who would place the knife of Jacques Clément or of Ravaillac in the hands of a fanatic, would save France.", "pos": 884649}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes; but she would then be the accomplice of an assassination.", "pos": 884778}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Were the accomplices of Ravaillac or of Jacques Clément ever known?", "pos": 884843}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "No; for perhaps they were too high-placed for anyone to dare look for them where they were. The Palace of Justice would not be burned down for everybody, monseigneur.", "pos": 884913}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "You think, then, that the fire at the Palace of Justice was not caused by chance?", "pos": 885082}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I, monseigneur? I think nothing; I quote a fact, that is all. Only I say that if I were named Madame de Montpensier, or the Queen Marie de Médicis, I should use less precautions than I take, being simply called Milady Clarik.", "pos": 885253}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "That is just. What do you require, then?", "pos": 885499}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I require an order which would ratify beforehand all that I should think proper to do for the greatest good of France.", "pos": 885560}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "But in the first place, this woman I have described must be found who is desirous of avenging herself upon the duke.", "pos": 885681}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "She is found,", "pos": 885800}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Then the miserable fanatic must be found who will serve as an instrument of God’s justice.", "pos": 885829}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "He will be found.", "pos": 885922}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Well, then it will be time to claim the order which you just now required.", "pos": 885942}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Your Eminence is right, and I have been wrong in seeing in the mission with which you honor me anything but that which it really is—that is, to announce to his Grace, on the part of your Eminence, that you are acquainted with the different disguises by means of which he succeeded in approaching the queen during the fête given by Madame the Constable; that you have proofs of the interview granted at the Louvre by the queen to a certain Italian astrologer who was no other than the Duke of Buckingham; that you have ordered a little romance of a satirical nature to be written upon the adventures of Amiens, with a plan of the gardens in which those adventures took place, and portraits of the actors who figured in them; that Montague is in the Bastille, and that the torture may make him say things he remembers, and even things he has forgotten; that you possess a certain letter from Madame de Chevreuse, found in his Grace’s lodging, which singularly compromises not only her who wrote it, but her in whose name it was written. Then, if he persists, notwithstanding all this—as that is, as I have said, the limit of my mission—I shall have nothing to do but to pray God to work a miracle for the salvation of France. That is it, is it not, monseigneur, and I shall have nothing else to do?", "pos": 886040}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "That is it,", "pos": 887357}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "And now, now that I have received the instructions of your Eminence as concerns your enemies, Monseigneur will permit me to say a few words to him of mine?", "pos": 887400}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Have you enemies, then?", "pos": 887642}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes, monseigneur, enemies against whom you owe me all your support, for I made them by serving your Eminence.", "pos": 887685}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Who are they?", "pos": 887797}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "In the first place, there is a little intrigante named Bonacieux.", "pos": 887831}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "She is in the prison of Nantes.", "pos": 887899}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "That is to say, she was there, but the queen has obtained an order from the king by means of which she has been conveyed to a convent.", "pos": 887933}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "To a convent?", "pos": 888088}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes, to a convent.", "pos": 888119}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "And to which?", "pos": 888140}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I don’t know; the secret has been well kept.", "pos": 888156}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "But I will know!", "pos": 888203}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "And your Eminence will tell me in what convent that woman is?", "pos": 888222}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "I can see nothing inconvenient in that,", "pos": 888286}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Well, now I have an enemy much more to be dreaded by me than this little Madame Bonacieux.", "pos": 888347}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Who is that?", "pos": 888440}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Her lover.", "pos": 888455}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "What is his name?", "pos": 888468}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, your Eminence knows him well. He is the evil genius of both of us. It is he who in an encounter with your Eminence’s Guards decided the victory in favor of the king’s Musketeers; it is he who gave three desperate wounds to De Wardes, your emissary, and who caused the affair of the diamond studs to fail; it is he who, knowing it was I who had Madame Bonacieux carried off, has sworn my death.", "pos": 888488}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Ah, ah! I know of whom you speak.", "pos": 888931}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I mean that miserable D’Artagnan.", "pos": 888988}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "He is a bold fellow,", "pos": 889024}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "And it is exactly because he is a bold fellow that he is the more to be feared.", "pos": 889066}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "I must have, a proof of his connection with Buckingham.", "pos": 889148}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "A proof? I will have ten.", "pos": 889223}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Well, then, it becomes the simplest thing in the world; get me that proof, and I will send him to the Bastille.", "pos": 889267}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "So far good, monseigneur; but afterwards?", "pos": 889381}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "When once in the Bastille, there is no afterward! Ah, pardieu! if it were as easy for me to get rid of my enemy as it is easy to get rid of yours, and if it were against such people you require impunity—", "pos": 889425}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Monseigneur, a fair exchange. Life for life, man for man; give me one, I will give you the other.", "pos": 889684}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "I don’t know what you mean, nor do I even desire to know what you mean, but I wish to please you, and see nothing out of the way in giving you what you demand with respect to so infamous a creature—the more so as you tell me this D’Artagnan is a libertine, a duelist, and a traitor.", "pos": 889802}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "An infamous scoundrel, monseigneur, a scoundrel!", "pos": 890111}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Give me paper, a quill, and some ink, then,", "pos": 890162}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Here they are, monseigneur.", "pos": 890227}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Well, what do you want, and why do you not let us listen to the end of the conversation?", "pos": 890543}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Hush! We have heard all it was necessary we should hear; besides, I don’t prevent you from listening, but I must be gone.", "pos": 890650}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "You must be gone! and if the cardinal asks for you, what answer can we make?", "pos": 890813}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You will not wait till he asks; you will speak first, and tell him that I am gone on the lookout, because certain expressions of our host have given me reason to think the road is not safe. I will say two words about it to the cardinal’s esquire likewise. The rest concerns myself; don’t be uneasy about that.", "pos": 890908}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Be prudent, Athos,", "pos": 891220}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Be easy on that head, you know I am cool enough.", "pos": 891254}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "What has become of Monseigneur Athos?", "pos": 892032}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Monseigneur, he has gone as a scout, on account of some words of our host, which made him believe the road was not safe.", "pos": 892082}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "And you, what have you done, Monsieur Porthos?", "pos": 892224}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "I have won five pistoles of Aramis.", "pos": 892273}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Well; now will you return with me?", "pos": 892311}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "We are at your Eminence’s orders.", "pos": 892348}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "To horse, then, gentlemen; for it is getting late.", "pos": 892384}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "My officer, has forgotten to give a piece of very important information to the lady, and has sent me back to repair his forgetfulness.", "pos": 893552}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Go up, she is still in her chamber.", "pos": 893703}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Who are you, and what do you want?", "pos": 894222}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Humph, it is certainly she! Do you know me, madame? So far, well. I perceive you know me.", "pos": 894270}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "The Comte de la Fère!", "pos": 894561}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes, Milady, the Comte de la Fère in person, who comes expressly from the other world to have the pleasure of paying you a visit. Sit down, madame, and let us talk, as the cardinal said. You certainly are a demon sent upon the earth! Your power is great, I know; but you also know that with the help of God men have often conquered the most terrible demons. You have once before thrown yourself in my path. I thought I had crushed you, madame; but either I was deceived or hell has resuscitated you! Yes, hell has resuscitated you. Hell has made you rich, hell has given you another name, hell has almost made you another face; but it has neither effaced the stains from your soul nor the brand from your body. You believed me to be dead, did you not, as I believed you to be? And the name of Athos as well concealed the Comte de la Fère, as the name Milady Clarik concealed Anne de Breuil. Was it not so you were called when your honored brother married us? Our position is truly a strange one. We have only lived up to the present time because we believed each other dead, and because a remembrance is less oppressive than a living creature, though a remembrance is sometimes devouring.", "pos": 894698}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But, what brings you back to me, and what do you want with me?", "pos": 896270}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I wish to tell you that though remaining invisible to your eyes, I have not lost sight of you.", "pos": 896376}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "You know what I have done?", "pos": 896473}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I can relate to you, day by day, your actions from your entrance to the service of the cardinal to this evening. Listen! It was you who cut off the two diamond studs from the shoulder of the Duke of Buckingham; it was you who had Madame Bonacieux carried off; it was you who, in love with De Wardes and thinking to pass the night with him, opened the door to Monsieur d’Artagnan; it was you who, believing that De Wardes had deceived you, wished to have him killed by his rival; it was you who, when this rival had discovered your infamous secret, wished to have him killed in his turn by two assassins, whom you sent in pursuit of him; it was you who, finding the balls had missed their mark, sent poisoned wine with a forged letter, to make your victim believe that the wine came from his friends. In short, it was you who have but now in this chamber, seated in this chair I now fill, made an engagement with Cardinal Richelieu to cause the Duke of Buckingham to be assassinated, in exchange for the promise he has made you to allow you to assassinate D’Artagnan.", "pos": 896502}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "You must be Satan!", "pos": 897651}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Perhaps. But at all events listen well to this. Assassinate the Duke of Buckingham, or cause him to be assassinated—I care very little about that! I don’t know him. Besides, he is an Englishman. But do not touch with the tip of your finger a single hair of D’Artagnan, who is a faithful friend whom I love and defend, or I swear to you by the head of my father the crime which you shall have endeavored to commit, or shall have committed, shall be the last.", "pos": 897683}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Monsieur d’Artagnan has cruelly insulted me. Monsieur d’Artagnan shall die!", "pos": 898157}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Indeed! Is it possible to insult you, madame? he has insulted you, and he shall die!", "pos": 898268}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "He shall die! she first, and he afterward.", "pos": 898379}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Madame, you will this instant deliver to me the paper the cardinal signed; or upon my soul, I will blow your brains out. You have one second to decide,", "pos": 899409}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Take it, and be accursed!", "pos": 899879}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "And now, now that I have drawn your teeth, viper, bite if you can. Gentlemen. Monseigneur’s order is, you know, to conduct that woman, without losing time, to Fort La Pointe, and never to leave her till she is on board.", "pos": 900179}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Who goes there?", "pos": 901220}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "That is our brave Musketeer, I think,", "pos": 901286}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Yes, monseigneur, it is he.", "pos": 901345}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Monsieur Athos, receive my thanks for the good guard you have kept. Gentlemen, we are arrived; take the gate on the left. The watchword is, ‘King and Ré.’", "pos": 901391}
{"speaker": "Porthos and Aramis", "text": "Well! well, he signed the paper she required!", "pos": 901754}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I know it, since here it is.", "pos": 901882}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Pardieu, gentlemen. I hope what you have to tell me is worth the trouble, or else, I warn you, I will not pardon you for making me come here instead of getting a little rest after a night spent in taking and dismantling a bastion. Ah, why were you not there, gentlemen? It was warm work.", "pos": 903443}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "We were in a place where it was not very cold,", "pos": 903744}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Hush!", "pos": 903865}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "It appears there is something fresh aboard.", "pos": 903961}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Aramis, you went to breakfast the day before yesterday at the inn of the Parpaillot, I believe?", "pos": 904007}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 904119}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "How did you fare?", "pos": 904126}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "For my part, I ate but little. The day before yesterday was a fish day, and they had nothing but meat.", "pos": 904146}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "What, no fish at a seaport?", "pos": 904251}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "They say, that the dyke which the cardinal is making drives them all out into the open sea.", "pos": 904295}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "But that is not quite what I mean to ask you, Aramis. I want to know if you were left alone, and nobody interrupted you.", "pos": 904432}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Why, I think there were not many intruders. Yes, Athos, I know what you mean: we shall do very well at the Parpaillot.", "pos": 904572}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Let us go to the Parpaillot, then, for here the walls are like sheets of paper.", "pos": 904693}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I see how it will be, we shall get into some pretty quarrel or other, and we have no need of one just now. D’Artagnan, tell us what sort of a night you have had, and we will describe ours afterward.", "pos": 905976}
{"speaker": "light-horseman", "text": "Ah, yes. I hear you gentlemen of the Guards have been in the trenches tonight, and that you did not get much the best of the Rochellais.", "pos": 906191}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, don’t you hear Monsieur de Busigny, who does you the honor to ask you a question? Relate what has passed during the night, since these gentlemen desire to know it.", "pos": 906534}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Have you not taken a bastion? Yes, monsieur, we have had that honor. We even have, as you may have heard, introduced a barrel of powder under one of the angles, which in blowing up made a very pretty breach. Without reckoning that as the bastion was not built yesterday all the rest of the building was badly shaken.", "pos": 906720}
{"speaker": "dragoon", "text": "And what bastion is it?", "pos": 907124}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The bastion St. Gervais, from behind which the Rochellais annoyed our workmen.", "pos": 907236}
{"speaker": "dragoon", "text": "Was that affair hot?", "pos": 907339}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, moderately so. We lost five men, and the Rochellais eight or ten.", "pos": 907362}
{"speaker": "Swiss", "text": "Balzempleu!", "pos": 907435}
{"speaker": "light-horseman", "text": "that they will send pioneers this morning to repair the bastion.", "pos": 907645}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, that’s probable,", "pos": 907712}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "a wager!", "pos": 907778}
{"speaker": "Swiss", "text": "Ah, wooi, a vager!", "pos": 907789}
{"speaker": "light-horseman", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 907827}
{"speaker": "dragoon", "text": "Stop a bit, I am in it. You cursed host! a dripping pan immediately, that I may not lose a drop of the fat of this estimable bird.", "pos": 907999}
{"speaker": "Swiss", "text": "You was right, goose grease is kood with basdry.", "pos": 908132}
{"speaker": "dragoon", "text": "There! Now for the wager! We listen, Monsieur Athos.", "pos": 908201}
{"speaker": "light-horseman", "text": "Yes, the wager!", "pos": 908276}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, Monsieur de Busigny, I will bet you, that my three companions, Messieurs Porthos, Aramis, and D’Artagnan, and myself, will go and breakfast in the bastion St. Gervais, and we will remain there an hour, by the watch, whatever the enemy may do to dislodge us.", "pos": 908319}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "you are going to get us all killed without mercy.", "pos": 908711}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "We are much more likely to be killed, if we do not go.", "pos": 908763}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "that’s a fair bet, I hope.", "pos": 908927}
{"speaker": "M. de Busigny", "text": "I take it, so let us fix the stake.", "pos": 908956}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You are four gentlemen, and we are four; an unlimited dinner for eight. Will that do?", "pos": 909016}
{"speaker": "M. de Busigny", "text": "Capitally,", "pos": 909118}
{"speaker": "dragoon", "text": "Perfectly,", "pos": 909154}
{"speaker": "Swiss", "text": "That shoots me,", "pos": 909185}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "The breakfast for these gentlemen is ready,", "pos": 909368}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, bring it,", "pos": 909429}
{"speaker": "Host", "text": "Shall I give you the change, my officer?", "pos": 909933}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "No, only add two bottles of champagne, and the difference will be for the napkins. will you be so kind as to set your watch with mine, or permit me to regulate mine by yours?", "pos": 909991}
{"speaker": "light-horseman", "text": "Which you please, monsieur! half past seven.", "pos": 910369}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Thirty-five minutes after seven, by which you perceive I am five minutes faster than you.", "pos": 910510}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Why, you see plainly enough we are going to the bastion.", "pos": 911396}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But what are we going to do there?", "pos": 911455}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You know well that we go to breakfast there.", "pos": 911492}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But why did we not breakfast at the Parpaillot?", "pos": 911539}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Because we have very important matters to communicate to one another, and it was impossible to talk five minutes in that inn without being annoyed by all those importunate fellows, who keep coming in, saluting you, and addressing you. Here at least, they will not come and disturb us.", "pos": 911589}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "It appears to me, that we could have found some retired place on the downs or the seashore.", "pos": 911915}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Where we should have been seen all four conferring together, so that at the end of a quarter of an hour the cardinal would have been informed by his spies that we were holding a council.", "pos": 912111}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Athos is right: Animadvertuntur in desertis.", "pos": 912320}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "but it behooved us to find it.", "pos": 912419}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "There is no desert where a bird cannot pass over one’s head, where a fish cannot leap out of the water, where a rabbit cannot come out of its burrow, and I believe that bird, fish, and rabbit each becomes a spy of the cardinal. Better, then, pursue our enterprise; from which, besides, we cannot retreat without shame. We have made a wager—a wager which could not have been foreseen, and of which I defy anyone to divine the true cause. We are going, in order to win it, to remain an hour in the bastion. Either we shall be attacked, or not. If we are not, we shall have all the time to talk, and nobody will hear us—for I guarantee the walls of the bastion have no ears; if we are, we will talk of our affairs just the same. Moreover, in defending ourselves, we shall cover ourselves with glory. You see that everything is to our advantage.", "pos": 912452}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "but we shall indubitably attract a ball.", "pos": 913320}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, my dear, you know well that the balls most to be dreaded are not from the enemy.", "pos": 913363}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "But for such an expedition we surely ought to have brought our muskets.", "pos": 913469}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You are stupid, friend Porthos. Why should we load ourselves with a useless burden?", "pos": 913543}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "I don’t find a good musket, twelve cartridges, and a powder flask very useless in the face of an enemy.", "pos": 913629}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "have you not heard what D’Artagnan said?", "pos": 913758}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "What did he say?", "pos": 913801}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "D’Artagnan said that in the attack of last night eight or ten Frenchmen were killed, and as many Rochellais.", "pos": 913838}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "What then?", "pos": 913949}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "The bodies were not plundered, were they? It appears the conquerors had something else to do.", "pos": 913962}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Well?", "pos": 914058}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, we shall find their muskets, their cartridges, and their flasks; and instead of four musketoons and twelve balls, we shall have fifteen guns and a hundred charges to fire.", "pos": 914066}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "truly you are a great man.", "pos": 914272}
{"speaker": "Grimaud", "text": "Where are we going? we shall leave our skins there.", "pos": 914579}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Gentlemen, while Grimaud spreads the table, let us begin by collecting the guns and cartridges together. We can talk while performing that necessary task. These gentlemen, cannot hear us.", "pos": 915916}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "But we could throw them into the ditch, after having assured ourselves they have nothing in their pockets.", "pos": 916203}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes, that’s Grimaud’s business.", "pos": 916328}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "pray let Grimaud search them and throw them over the walls.", "pos": 916408}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Heaven forfend! they may serve us.", "pos": 916470}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "These bodies serve us? You are mad, dear friend.", "pos": 916521}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Judge not rashly, say the gospel and the cardinal.", "pos": 916588}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "How many guns, gentlemen? Twelve,", "pos": 916656}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "How many shots?", "pos": 916710}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "A hundred.", "pos": 916728}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That’s quite as many as we shall want. Let us load the guns. And now to table,", "pos": 916741}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "as there is no longer any fear of being overheard, I hope you are going to let me into your secret.", "pos": 917377}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I hope at the same time to procure you amusement and glory, gentlemen. I have induced you to take a charming promenade; here is a delicious breakfast; and yonder are five hundred persons, as you may see through the loopholes, taking us for heroes or madmen—two classes of imbeciles greatly resembling each other.", "pos": 917479}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The secret!", "pos": 917812}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "The secret is, that I saw Milady last night.", "pos": 917843}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You saw your wi—", "pos": 918090}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Hush! You forget, my dear, you forget that these gentlemen are not initiated into my family affairs like yourself. I have seen Milady.", "pos": 918108}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Where?", "pos": 918266}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Within two leagues of this place, at the inn of the Red Dovecot.", "pos": 918296}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "In that case I am lost,", "pos": 918363}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Not so bad yet, for by this time she must have quit the shores of France.", "pos": 918406}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "But after all, who is Milady?", "pos": 918526}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "A charming woman! Villainous host! he has given us Anjou wine instead of champagne, and fancies we know no better! Yes, a charming woman, who entertained kind views toward our friend D’Artagnan, who, on his part, has given her some offense for which she tried to revenge herself a month ago by having him killed by two musket shots, a week ago by trying to poison him, and yesterday by demanding his head of the cardinal.", "pos": 918575}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What! by demanding my head of the cardinal?", "pos": 919076}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Yes, that is true as the Gospel. I heard her with my own ears.", "pos": 919158}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I also,", "pos": 919239}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Then, it is useless to struggle longer. I may as well blow my brains out, and all will be over.", "pos": 919262}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That’s the last folly to be committed, seeing it is the only one for which there is no remedy.", "pos": 919421}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But I can never escape, with such enemies. First, my stranger of Meung; then De Wardes, to whom I have given three sword wounds; next Milady, whose secret I have discovered; finally, the cardinal, whose vengeance I have balked.", "pos": 919532}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, that only makes four; and we are four—one for one. Pardieu! if we may believe the signs Grimaud is making, we are about to have to do with a very different number of people. What is it, Grimaud? Considering the gravity of the occasion, I permit you to speak, my friend; but be laconic, I beg. What do you see?", "pos": 919781}
{"speaker": "Grimaud", "text": "A troop.", "pos": 920113}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Of how many persons?", "pos": 920124}
{"speaker": "Grimaud", "text": "Twenty men.", "pos": 920147}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "What sort of men?", "pos": 920161}
{"speaker": "Grimaud", "text": "Sixteen pioneers, four soldiers.", "pos": 920181}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "How far distant?", "pos": 920216}
{"speaker": "Grimaud", "text": "Five hundred paces.", "pos": 920235}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Good! We have just time to finish this fowl and to drink one glass of wine to your health, D’Artagnan.", "pos": 920257}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "To your health!", "pos": 920362}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, then, to my health! although I am very much afraid that your good wishes will not be of great service to me.", "pos": 920409}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Bah! God is great, as say the followers of Mohammed, and the future is in his hands. Pardieu! it was hardly worth while to distribute ourselves for twenty fellows armed with pickaxes, mattocks, and shovels. Grimaud had only to make them a sign to go away, and I am convinced they would have left us in peace.", "pos": 920526}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I doubt that, for they are advancing very resolutely. Besides, in addition to the pioneers, there are four soldiers and a brigadier, armed with muskets.", "pos": 921197}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That’s because they don’t see us,", "pos": 921374}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "My faith. I must confess I feel a great repugnance to fire on these poor devils of civilians.", "pos": 921422}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "He is a bad priest, who has pity for heretics.", "pos": 921533}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "In truth. Aramis is right. I will warn them.", "pos": 921598}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What the devil are you going to do? you will be shot.", "pos": 921659}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Gentlemen, a few friends and myself are about to breakfast in this bastion. Now, you know nothing is more disagreeable than being disturbed when one is at breakfast. We request you, then, if you really have business here, to wait till we have finished our repast, or to come again a short time hence; unless, which would be far better, you form the salutary resolution to quit the side of the rebels, and come and drink with us to the health of the King of France.", "pos": 921994}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Take care, Athos! don’t you see they are aiming?", "pos": 922461}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes, yes, but they are only civilians—very bad marksmen, who will be sure not to hit me. Grimaud, another musket! Now, gentlemen, a sortie! Reload the muskets, Grimaud, and we, gentlemen, will go on with our breakfast, and resume our conversation. Where were we?", "pos": 922532}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I recollect you were saying, that after having demanded my head of the cardinal, Milady had quit the shores of France. Whither goes she?", "pos": 923697}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "She goes into England,", "pos": 923915}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "With what view?", "pos": 923952}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "With the view of assassinating, or causing to be assassinated, the Duke of Buckingham.", "pos": 923970}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But this is infamous!", "pos": 924122}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "As to that. I beg you to believe that I care very little about it. Now you have done, Grimaud, take our brigadier’s half-pike, tie a napkin to it, and plant it on top of our bastion, that these rebels of Rochellais may see that they have to deal with brave and loyal soldiers of the king.", "pos": 924156}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "How? you care little if she kills Buckingham or causes him to be killed? But the duke is our friend.", "pos": 924660}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "The duke is English; the duke fights against us. Let her do what she likes with the duke; I care no more about him than an empty bottle.", "pos": 924785}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "A moment. I will not abandon Buckingham thus. He gave us some very fine horses.", "pos": 925034}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "And moreover, very handsome saddles,", "pos": 925135}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Besides. God desires the conversion and not the death of a sinner.", "pos": 925245}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Amen! and we will return to that subject later, if such be your pleasure; but what for the moment engaged my attention most earnestly, and I am sure you will understand me, D’Artagnan, was the getting from this woman a kind of carte blanche which she had extorted from the cardinal, and by means of which she could with impunity get rid of you and perhaps of us.", "pos": 925329}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "But this creature must be a demon!", "pos": 925708}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And this carte blanche, this carte blanche, does it remain in her hands?", "pos": 925819}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "No, it passed into mine; I will not say without trouble, for if I did I should tell a lie.", "pos": 925913}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My dear Athos, I shall no longer count the number of times I am indebted to you for my life.", "pos": 926006}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Then it was to go to her that you left us?", "pos": 926101}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Exactly.", "pos": 926159}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And you have that letter of the cardinal?", "pos": 926170}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Here it is,", "pos": 926231}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of this has done what he has done.", "pos": 926435}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "In fact, it is an absolution according to rule.", "pos": 926547}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That paper must be torn to pieces,", "pos": 926612}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "On the contrary, it must be preserved carefully. I would not give up this paper if covered with as many gold pieces.", "pos": 926715}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And what will she do now?", "pos": 926848}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Why, she is probably going to write to the cardinal that a damned Musketeer, named Athos, has taken her safe-conduct from her by force; she will advise him in the same letter to get rid of his two friends, Aramis and Porthos, at the same time. The cardinal will remember that these are the same men who have often crossed his path; and then some fine morning he will arrest D’Artagnan, and for fear he should feel lonely, he will send us to keep him company in the Bastille.", "pos": 926897}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Go to! It appears to me you make dull jokes, my dear,", "pos": 927403}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I do not jest,", "pos": 927473}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Do you know, that to twist that damned Milady’s neck would be a smaller sin than to twist those of these poor devils of Huguenots, who have committed no other crime than singing in French the psalms we sing in Latin?", "pos": 927502}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "What says the abbé?", "pos": 927737}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I say I am entirely of Porthos’s opinion,", "pos": 927781}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And I, too,", "pos": 927841}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Fortunately, she is far off, for I confess she would worry me if she were here.", "pos": 927872}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "She worries me in England as well as in France,", "pos": 927970}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "She worries me everywhere,", "pos": 928032}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "But when you held her in your power, why did you not drown her, strangle her, hang her? It is only the dead who do not return.", "pos": 928078}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You think so, Porthos?", "pos": 928223}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I have an idea,", "pos": 928323}
{"speaker": "Musketeers", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 928358}
{"speaker": "Grimaud", "text": "To arms!", "pos": 928393}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Shall we return to the camp? I don’t think the sides are equal.", "pos": 928614}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Impossible, for three reasons. The first, that we have not finished breakfast; the second, that we still have some very important things to say; and the third, that it yet wants ten minutes before the lapse of the hour.", "pos": 928696}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Well, then, we must form a plan of battle.", "pos": 928935}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That’s very simple. As soon as the enemy are within musket shot, we must fire upon them. If they continue to advance, we must fire again. We must fire as long as we have loaded guns. If those who remain of the troop persist in coming to the assault, we will allow the besiegers to get as far as the ditch, and then we will push down upon their heads that strip of wall which keeps its perpendicular by a miracle.", "pos": 928995}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Bravo! Decidedly, Athos, you were born to be a general, and the cardinal, who fancies himself a great soldier, is nothing beside you.", "pos": 929427}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Gentlemen, no divided attention, I beg; let each one pick out his man.", "pos": 929580}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I cover mine,", "pos": 929667}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "And I mine,", "pos": 929700}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "And I idem,", "pos": 929728}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Fire, then,", "pos": 929755}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Now, my friends, finish them at a blow. To the wall; to the wall! Can we have destroyed them all, from the first to the last?", "pos": 930439}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My faith, it appears so!", "pos": 930915}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "No, there go three or four, limping away.", "pos": 930959}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Gentlemen, we have been here an hour, and our wager is won; but we will be fair players. Besides, D’Artagnan has not told us his idea yet.", "pos": 931235}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My idea?", "pos": 931485}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes; you said you had an idea,", "pos": 931513}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, I remember. Well, I will go to England a second time; I will go and find Buckingham.", "pos": 931558}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You shall not do that, D’Artagnan,", "pos": 931668}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And why not? Have I not been there once?", "pos": 931725}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Yes; but at that period we were not at war. At that period Buckingham was an ally, and not an enemy. What you would now do amounts to treason.", "pos": 931768}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "But. I think I have an idea, in my turn.", "pos": 931979}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Silence for Monsieur Porthos’s idea!", "pos": 932038}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "I will ask leave of absence of Monsieur de Tréville, on some pretext or other which you must invent; I am not very clever at pretexts. Milady does not know me; I will get access to her without her suspecting me, and when I catch my beauty, I will strangle her.", "pos": 932090}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well. I am not far from approving the idea of Monsieur Porthos.", "pos": 932353}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "For shame! Kill a woman? No, listen to me; I have the true idea.", "pos": 932436}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Let us see your idea, Aramis,", "pos": 932518}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "We must inform the queen.", "pos": 932611}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ah, my faith, yes! we are coming nearer to it now.", "pos": 932639}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Inform the queen! and how? Have we relations with the court? Could we send anyone to Paris without its being known in the camp? From here to Paris it is a hundred and forty leagues; before our letter was at Angers we should be in a dungeon.", "pos": 932741}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "As to remitting a letter with safety to her Majesty. I will take that upon myself. I know a clever person at Tours—", "pos": 932998}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, do you not adopt this means, Athos?", "pos": 933179}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I do not reject it altogether, but I wish to remind Aramis that he cannot quit the camp, and that nobody but one of ourselves is trustworthy; that two hours after the messenger has set out, all the Capuchins, all the police, all the black caps of the cardinal, will know your letter by heart, and you and your clever person will be arrested.", "pos": 933240}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Without reckoning, that the queen would save Monsieur de Buckingham, but would take no heed of us.", "pos": 933598}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Gentlemen, what Porthos says is full of sense.", "pos": 933719}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Ah, ah! but what’s going on in the city yonder? They are beating the general alarm. You see, they are going to send a whole regiment against us,", "pos": 933787}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "You don’t think of holding out against a whole regiment, do you?", "pos": 934037}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Why not? I feel myself quite in a humor for it; and I would hold out before an army if we had taken the precaution to bring a dozen more bottles of wine.", "pos": 934118}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Upon my word, the drum draws near,", "pos": 934296}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Let it come. It is a quarter of an hour’s journey from here to the city, consequently a quarter of an hour’s journey from the city to hither. That is more than time enough for us to devise a plan. If we go from this place we shall never find another so suitable. Ah, stop! I have it, gentlemen; the right idea has just occurred to me. Tell us. Allow me to give Grimaud some indispensable orders. Grimaud, take those gentlemen, set them up against the wall, put their hats upon their heads, and their guns in their hands.", "pos": 934350}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, the great man! I comprehend now.", "pos": 935017}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "You comprehend?", "pos": 935076}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "And do you comprehend, Grimaud?", "pos": 935108}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That’s all that is necessary, now for my idea.", "pos": 935195}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "I should like, however, to comprehend,", "pos": 935258}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That is useless.", "pos": 935313}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Yes, yes! Athos’s idea!", "pos": 935332}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "This Milady, this woman, this creature, this demon, has a brother-in-law, as I think you told me, D’Artagnan?", "pos": 935405}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, I know him very well; and I also believe that he has not a very warm affection for his sister-in-law.", "pos": 935517}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "There is no harm in that. If he detested her, it would be all the better. In that case we are as well off as we wish.", "pos": 935626}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "And yet. I would like to know what Grimaud is about.", "pos": 935763}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Silence, Porthos!", "pos": 935834}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "What is her brother-in-law’s name?", "pos": 935867}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Lord de Winter.", "pos": 935904}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Where is he now?", "pos": 935922}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "He returned to London at the first sound of war.", "pos": 935941}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, there’s just the man we want. It is he whom we must warn. We will have him informed that his sister-in-law is on the point of having someone assassinated, and beg him not to lose sight of her. There is in London, I hope, some establishment like that of the Magdalens, or of the Repentant Daughters. He must place his sister in one of these, and we shall be in peace.", "pos": 935991}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, till she comes out.", "pos": 936380}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Ah, my faith! you require too much, D’Artagnan. I have given you all I have, and I beg leave to tell you that this is the bottom of my sack.", "pos": 936426}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "But I think it would be still better, to inform the queen and Lord de Winter at the same time.", "pos": 936583}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes; but who is to carry the letter to Tours, and who to London?", "pos": 936695}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I answer for Bazin,", "pos": 936762}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And I for Planchet,", "pos": 936797}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ay, if we cannot leave the camp, our lackeys may.", "pos": 936836}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "To be sure they may; and this very day we will write the letters. Give the lackeys money, and they will start.", "pos": 936904}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "We will give them money? Have you any money?", "pos": 937032}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Look out! I see black points and red points moving yonder. Why did you talk of a regiment, Athos? It is a veritable army!", "pos": 937207}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "My faith, yes, there they are. See the sneaks come, without drum or trumpet. Ah, ah! have you finished, Grimaud? Bravo! that does honor to your imagination.", "pos": 937351}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "All very well, but I should like to understand.", "pos": 937771}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Let us decamp first, and you will understand afterward.", "pos": 937837}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "A moment, gentlemen, a moment; give Grimaud time to clear away the breakfast. the black points and the red points are visibly enlarging. I am of D’Artagnan’s opinion; we have no time to lose in regaining our camp.", "pos": 937895}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "My faith. I have nothing to say against a retreat. We bet upon one hour, and we have stayed an hour and a half. Nothing can be said; let us be off, gentlemen, let us be off! What the devil shall we do now, gentlemen?", "pos": 938136}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Have you forgotten anything?", "pos": 938493}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "The white flag, morbleu! We must not leave a flag in the hands of the enemy, even if that flag be but a napkin.", "pos": 938537}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Come along, Athos, come along! now we have found everything except money, it would be stupid to be killed.", "pos": 939440}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "What’s that? what are they firing at now? I hear no balls whistle, and I see nobody!", "pos": 939852}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "They are firing at the corpses,", "pos": 939956}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "But the dead cannot return their fire.", "pos": 940005}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Certainly not! They will then fancy it is an ambuscade, they will deliberate; and by the time they have found out the pleasantry, we shall be out of the range of their balls. That renders it useless to get a pleurisy by too much haste.", "pos": 940046}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Oh, I comprehend now,", "pos": 940284}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That’s lucky, how many have we killed of them—a dozen? Or fifteen. And in exchange for all that not even a scratch! Ah, but what is the matter with your hand, D’Artagnan? It bleeds, seemingly.", "pos": 940337}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, it’s nothing,", "pos": 941006}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "A spent ball?", "pos": 941043}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Not even that.", "pos": 941059}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "What is it, then?", "pos": 941076}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Only grazed a little, my fingers were caught between two stones—that of the wall and that of my ring—and the skin was broken.", "pos": 941240}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That comes of wearing diamonds, my master,", "pos": 941390}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ah, to be sure, there is a diamond. Why the devil, then, do we plague ourselves about money, when there is a diamond?", "pos": 941461}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Stop a bit!", "pos": 941598}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Undoubtedly, as there is a diamond, let us sell it.", "pos": 941681}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "it is the queen’s diamond.", "pos": 941817}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "The stronger reason why it should be sold. The queen saving Monsieur de Buckingham, her lover; nothing more just. The queen saving us, her friends; nothing more moral. Let us sell the diamond. What says Monsieur the Abbé? I don’t ask Porthos; his opinion has been given.", "pos": 941846}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Why, I think, that his ring not coming from a mistress, and consequently not being a love token, D’Artagnan may sell it.", "pos": 942136}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "My dear Aramis, you speak like theology personified. Your advice, then, is—", "pos": 942293}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "To sell the diamond,", "pos": 942371}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, then, let us sell the diamond, and say no more about it.", "pos": 942410}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "My faith, it was time that idea came into Porthos’s head. Here we are at the camp; therefore, gentlemen, not a word more of this affair. We are observed; they are coming to meet us. We shall be carried in triumph.", "pos": 942626}
{"speaker": "La Houdinière", "text": "Well, monseigneur, three Musketeers and a Guardsman laid a wager with Monsieur de Busigny that they would go and breakfast in the bastion St. Gervais; and while breakfasting they held it for two hours against the enemy, and have killed I don’t know how many Rochellais.", "pos": 943824}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Did you inquire the names of those three Musketeers?", "pos": 944118}
{"speaker": "La Houdinière", "text": "Yes, monseigneur.", "pos": 944173}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "What are their names?", "pos": 944193}
{"speaker": "La Houdinière", "text": "Messieurs Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.", "pos": 944217}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Still my three brave fellows! And the Guardsman?", "pos": 944257}
{"speaker": "La Houdinière", "text": "D’Artagnan.", "pos": 944333}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Still my young scapegrace. Positively, these four men must be on my side. That’s well, Monsieur de Tréville, pray let that napkin be sent to me. I will have three fleur-de-lis embroidered on it in gold, and will give it to your company as a standard.", "pos": 944347}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Monseigneur, that will be unjust to the Guardsmen. Monsieur d’Artagnan is not with me; he serves under Monsieur Dessessart.", "pos": 944934}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Well, then, take him,", "pos": 945083}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "you had a triumphant idea! As you said, we have acquired glory, and were enabled to carry on a conversation of the highest importance.", "pos": 945587}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Which we can resume now without anybody suspecting us, for, with the help of God, we shall henceforth pass for cardinalists.", "pos": 945724}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "family affair. A family affair was not subject to the investigation of the cardinal; a family affair concerned nobody. People might employ themselves in a family affair before all the world. Therefore Athos had invented the phrase, family affair.", "pos": 946456}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "the lackeys.", "pos": 946735}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "the diamond.", "pos": 946782}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "What Aramis says is very sensible, we must speculate upon the faults of people, and not upon their virtues. Monsieur Abbé, you are a great moralist.", "pos": 949155}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Doubtless, for we not only require to be well served in order to succeed, but moreover, not to fail; for in case of failure, heads are in question, not for our lackeys—", "pos": 949323}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Speak lower, Aramis,", "pos": 949509}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "but for the master—for the masters, we may say. Are our lackeys sufficiently devoted to us to risk their lives for us? No.", "pos": 949595}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My faith. I would almost answer for Planchet.", "pos": 949720}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Why, good God! you will be deceived just the same. They will promise everything for the sake of the money, and on the road fear will prevent them from acting. Once taken, they will be pressed; when pressed, they will confess everything. What the devil! we are not children. To reach England— all France, covered with spies and creatures of the cardinal, must be crossed. A passport for embarkation must be obtained; and the party must be acquainted with English in order to ask the way to London. Really, I think the thing very difficult.", "pos": 949930}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "on the contrary, I think it very easy. It would be, no doubt, parbleu, if we write to Lord de Winter about affairs of vast importance, of the horrors of the cardinal—", "pos": 950684}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Speak lower!", "pos": 950853}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "of intrigues and secrets of state, but for God’s sake, do not forget, as you yourself said, Athos, that we only write to him concerning a family affair; that we only write to him to entreat that as soon as Milady arrives in London he will put it out of her power to injure us. I will write to him, then, nearly in these terms.", "pos": 950881}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Monsieur and dear friend— Dear friend to an Englishman, well commenced! Bravo, D’Artagnan! Only with that word you would be quartered instead of being broken on the wheel.", "pos": 951391}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Monsieur, quite short.", "pos": 951630}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You may even say, My Lord,", "pos": 951655}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My Lord, do you remember the little goat pasture of the Luxembourg?", "pos": 951727}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Good, the Luxembourg! One might believe this is an allusion to the queen-mother! That’s ingenious,", "pos": 951797}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My Lord, do you remember a certain little enclosure where your life was spared?", "pos": 951942}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "My dear D’Artagnan, you will never make anything but a very bad secretary. Where your life was spared! For shame! that’s unworthy. A man of spirit is not to be reminded of such services. A benefit reproached is an offense committed.", "pos": 952024}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The devil! you are insupportable. If the letter must be written under your censure, my faith, I renounce the task.", "pos": 952259}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "And you will do right. Handle the musket and the sword, my dear fellow. You will come off splendidly at those two exercises; but pass the pen over to Monsieur Abbé. That’s his province.", "pos": 952395}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Ay, ay! pass the pen to Aramis, who writes theses in Latin.", "pos": 952583}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, so be it. Draw up this note for us, Aramis; but by our Holy Father the Pope, cut it short, for I shall prune you in my turn, I warn you.", "pos": 952661}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I ask no better, but let me be properly acquainted with the subject. I have heard here and there that this sister-in-law was a hussy. I have obtained proof of it by listening to her conversation with the cardinal.", "pos": 952825}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Lower! sacré bleu!", "pos": 953127}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "But, the details escape me.", "pos": 953160}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "And me also.", "pos": 953210}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, this is what you have to say: My Lord, your sister-in-law is an infamous woman, who wished to have you killed that she might inherit your wealth; but she could not marry your brother, being already married in France, and having been—", "pos": 953470}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Repudiated by her husband,", "pos": 953800}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Because she had been branded.", "pos": 953841}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Bah! Impossible! What do you say—that she wanted to have her brother-in-law killed? She was married?", "pos": 953895}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "And her husband found out that she had a fleur-de-lis on her shoulder? Who has seen this fleur-de-lis?", "pos": 954045}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "D’Artagnan and I. Or rather, to observe the chronological order, I and D’Artagnan,", "pos": 954274}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "And does the husband of this frightful creature still live? He still lives.", "pos": 954374}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are you quite sure of it?", "pos": 954466}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am he.", "pos": 954494}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "This time. D’Artagnan has given us an excellent program, and the letter must be written at once.", "pos": 954601}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "The devil! You are right, Athos, and it is a rather difficult matter. The chancellor himself would be puzzled how to write such a letter, and yet the chancellor draws up an official report very readily. Never mind! Be silent, I will write. My Lord, The person who writes these few lines had the honor of crossing swords with you in the little enclosure of the Rue d’Enfer. As you have several times since declared yourself the friend of that person, he thinks it his duty to respond to that friendship by sending you important information. Twice you have nearly been the victim of a near relative, whom you believe to be your heir because you are ignorant that before she contracted a marriage in England she was already married in France. But the third time, which is the present, you may succumb. Your relative left La Rochelle for England during the night. Watch her arrival, for she has great and terrible projects. If you require to know positively what she is capable of, read her past history on her left shoulder.", "pos": 954742}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, now that will do wonderfully well. My dear Aramis, you have the pen of a secretary of state. Lord de Winter will now be upon his guard if the letter should reach him; and even if it should fall into the hands of the cardinal, we shall not be compromised. But as the lackey who goes may make us believe he has been to London and may stop at Châtellerault, let us give him only half the sum promised him, with the letter, with an agreement that he shall have the other half in exchange for the reply. Have you the diamond?", "pos": 956013}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I have what is still better. I have the price; Seven thousand livres, in louis of twelve francs.", "pos": 956573}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Seven thousand livres! That poor little diamond was worth seven thousand livres?", "pos": 956853}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "It appears so, since here they are. I don’t suppose that our friend D’Artagnan has added any of his own to the amount.", "pos": 956953}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But, gentlemen, in all this, we do not think of the queen. Let us take some heed of the welfare of her dear Buckingham. That is the least we owe her.", "pos": 957088}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That’s true, but that concerns Aramis.", "pos": 957259}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Well, what must I say?", "pos": 957314}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Oh, that’s simple enough! Write a second letter for that clever personage who lives at Tours.", "pos": 957371}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "My dear cousin.", "pos": 957625}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Ah, ah! This clever person is your relative, then?", "pos": 957643}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Cousin-german.", "pos": 957710}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Go on, to your cousin, then!", "pos": 957727}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "MY DEAR COUSIN, His Eminence, the cardinal, whom God preserve for the happiness of France and the confusion of the enemies of the kingdom, is on the point of putting an end to the hectic rebellion of La Rochelle. It is probable that the succor of the English fleet will never even arrive in sight of the place. I will even venture to say that I am certain M. de Buckingham will be prevented from setting out by some great event. His Eminence is the most illustrious politician of times past, of times present, and probably of times to come. He would extinguish the sun if the sun incommoded him. Give these happy tidings to your sister, my dear cousin. I have dreamed that the unlucky Englishman was dead. I cannot recollect whether it was by steel or by poison; only of this I am sure, I have dreamed he was dead, and you know my dreams never deceive me. Be assured, then, of seeing me soon return.", "pos": 957776}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Capital! you are the king of poets, my dear Aramis. You speak like the Apocalypse, and you are as true as the Gospel. There is nothing now to do but to put the address to this letter.", "pos": 958678}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "That is easily done. To Mlle. Michon, seamstress, Tours. Now, you will please to understand, gentlemen, that Bazin alone can carry this letter to Tours. My cousin knows nobody but Bazin, and places confidence in nobody but him; any other person would fail. Besides, Bazin is ambitious and learned; Bazin has read history, gentlemen, he knows that Sixtus the Fifth became Pope after having kept pigs. Well, as he means to enter the Church at the same time as myself, he does not despair of becoming Pope in his turn, or at least a cardinal. You can understand that a man who has such views will never allow himself to be taken, or if taken, will undergo martyrdom rather than speak.", "pos": 958879}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Very well. I consent to Bazin with all my heart, but grant me Planchet. Milady had him one day turned out of doors, with sundry blows of a good stick to accelerate his motions. Now, Planchet has an excellent memory; and I will be bound that sooner than relinquish any possible means of vengeance, he will allow himself to be beaten to death. If your arrangements at Tours are your arrangements, Aramis, those of London are mine. I request, then, that Planchet may be chosen, more particularly as he has already been to London with me, and knows how to speak correctly: London, sir, if you please, and my master, Lord D’Artagnan. With that you may be satisfied he can make his way, both going and returning.", "pos": 959730}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "In that case. Planchet must receive seven hundred livres for going, and seven hundred livres for coming back; and Bazin, three hundred livres for going, and three hundred livres for returning—that will reduce the sum to five thousand livres. We will each take a thousand livres to be employed as seems good, and we will leave a fund of a thousand livres under the guardianship of Monsieur Abbé here, for extraordinary occasions or common wants. Will that do?", "pos": 960458}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "My dear Athos, you speak like Nestor, who was, as everyone knows, the wisest among the Greeks.", "pos": 960933}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, then, it is agreed. Planchet and Bazin shall go. Everything considered, I am not sorry to retain Grimaud; he is accustomed to my ways, and I am particular. Yesterday’s affair must have shaken him a little; his voyage would upset him quite.", "pos": 961045}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "I will carry the letter in the lining of my coat, and if I am taken I will swallow it.", "pos": 961501}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, but then you will not be able to fulfill your commission,", "pos": 961607}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "You will give me a copy this evening, which I shall know by heart tomorrow.", "pos": 961690}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, what did I tell you? Now, you have eight days to get an interview with Lord de Winter; you have eight days to return—in all sixteen days. If, on the sixteenth day after your departure, at eight o’clock in the evening you are not here, no money—even if it be but five minutes past eight.", "pos": 961816}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Then, monsieur, you must buy me a watch.", "pos": 962150}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Take this, and be a good lad. Remember, if you talk, if you babble, if you get drunk, you risk your master’s head, who has so much confidence in your fidelity, and who answers for you. But remember, also, that if by your fault any evil happens to D’Artagnan, I will find you, wherever you may be, for the purpose of ripping up your belly.", "pos": 962210}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "And I, remember, I will skin you alive.", "pos": 962739}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "And I, remember that I will roast you at a slow fire, like a savage.", "pos": 962837}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "See, Planchet, these gentlemen only say this out of affection for me, but at bottom they all like you.", "pos": 963158}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Ah, monsieur. I will succeed or I will consent to be cut in quarters; and if they do cut me in quarters, be assured that not a morsel of me will speak.", "pos": 963274}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Listen. When you have given the letter to Lord de Winter and he has read it, you will further say to him: Watch over his Grace Lord Buckingham, for they wish to assassinate him. But this, Planchet, is so serious and important that I have not informed my friends that I would entrust this secret to you; and for a captain’s commission I would not write it.", "pos": 963883}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Be satisfied, monsieur, you shall see if confidence can be placed in me.", "pos": 964259}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Monsieur Aramis, the answer from your cousin.", "pos": 965517}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Good God! I quite despair of my poor Michon; she will never write like Monsieur de Voiture.", "pos": 965827}
{"speaker": "Swiss", "text": "What does you mean by boor Michon?", "pos": 965943}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Oh, pardieu, less than nothing, a charming little seamstress, whom I love dearly and from whose hand I requested a few lines as a sort of keepsake.", "pos": 966057}
{"speaker": "Swiss", "text": "The duvil! if she is as great a lady as her writing is large, you are a lucky fellow, gomrade!", "pos": 966222}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "See what she writes to me, Athos. MY COUSIN, My sister and I are skillful in interpreting dreams, and even entertain great fear of them; but of yours it may be said, I hope, every dream is an illusion. Adieu! Take care of yourself, and act so that we may from time to time hear you spoken of. MARIE MICHON", "pos": 966385}
{"speaker": "dragoon", "text": "And what dream does she mean?", "pos": 966820}
{"speaker": "Swiss", "text": "Yez; what’s the dream?", "pos": 966910}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Well, pardieu! it was only this: I had a dream, and I related it to her.", "pos": 966951}
{"speaker": "Swiss", "text": "Yez, yez, it’s simple enough to dell a dream, but I neffer dream.", "pos": 967041}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You are very fortunate. I wish I could say as much!", "pos": 967127}
{"speaker": "Swiss", "text": "Neffer, neffer!", "pos": 967289}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Really, you are not men but children, to let a woman terrify you so! And what does it amount to, after all? To be imprisoned. Well, but we should be taken out of prison; Madame Bonacieux was released. To be decapitated? Why, every day in the trenches we go cheerfully to expose ourselves to worse than that—for a bullet may break a leg, and I am convinced a surgeon would give us more pain in cutting off a thigh than an executioner in cutting off a head. Wait quietly, then; in two hours, in four, in six hours at latest, Planchet will be here. He promised to be here, and I have very great faith in Planchet, who appears to me to be a very good lad.", "pos": 968771}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "But if he does not come?", "pos": 969447}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, if he does not come, it will be because he has been delayed, that’s all. He may have fallen from his horse, he may have cut a caper from the deck; he may have traveled so fast against the wind as to have brought on a violent catarrh. Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.", "pos": 969491}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That’s all very well, but I am tired of fearing when I open a fresh bottle that the wine may come from the cellar of Milady.", "pos": 970022}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You are very fastidious, such a beautiful woman!", "pos": 970171}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "A woman of mark!", "pos": 970236}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "We are lost,", "pos": 970931}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You mean to say we have lost, they are beating the tattoo. Let us to bed!", "pos": 970984}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Planchet!", "pos": 971610}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Planchet!", "pos": 971665}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, yes, Planchet, to be sure, what is there so astonishing in that? He promised to be back by eight o’clock, and eight is striking. Bravo, Planchet, you are a lad of your word, and if ever you leave your master, I will promise you a place in my service.", "pos": 971706}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Oh, no, never. I will never leave Monsieur d’Artagnan.", "pos": 971979}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I have the note,", "pos": 972384}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That’s well, let us go home and read it.", "pos": 972440}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Now, my lad, you may claim your seven hundred livres, but you did not run much risk with such a note as that.", "pos": 973266}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "I am not to blame for having tried every means to compress it,", "pos": 973378}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well! tell us all about it.", "pos": 973458}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "Dame, that’s a long job, monsieur.", "pos": 973508}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You are right, Planchet, besides, the tattoo has been sounded, and we should be observed if we kept a light burning much longer than the others.", "pos": 973545}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "So be it. Go to bed, Planchet, and sleep soundly.", "pos": 973706}
{"speaker": "Planchet", "text": "My faith, monsieur! that will be the first time I have done so for sixteen days.", "pos": 973777}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And me, too!", "pos": 973860}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "And me, too!", "pos": 973892}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "And me, too!", "pos": 973921}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Well, if you will have the truth, and me, too!", "pos": 973949}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Who are you, sir, who has the kindness to trouble yourself so particularly on my account?", "pos": 980382}
{"speaker": "the young man", "text": "You may perceive, madame, by my uniform, that I am an officer in the English navy,", "pos": 980487}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But is it the custom for the officers in the English navy to place themselves at the service of their female compatriots when they land in a port of Great Britain, and carry their gallantry so far as to conduct them ashore?", "pos": 980595}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "Yes, madame, it is the custom, not from gallantry but prudence, that in time of war foreigners should be conducted to particular hôtels, in order that they may remain under the eye of the government until full information can be obtained about them.", "pos": 980821}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But I am not a foreigner, sir, my name is Lady Clarik, and this measure—", "pos": 981222}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "This measure is general, madame; and you will seek in vain to evade it.", "pos": 981385}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I will follow you, then, sir.", "pos": 981459}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "Row!", "pos": 981752}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Is this carriage for us?", "pos": 982067}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "Yes, madame,", "pos": 982108}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "The hôtel, then, is far away?", "pos": 982144}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "At the other end of the town.", "pos": 982176}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Very well,", "pos": 982208}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But we are no longer in the city, sir. I beg you to understand, sir, I will go no farther unless you tell me whither you are taking me. Oh, this is too much. Help! help!", "pos": 983178}
{"speaker": "the young man", "text": "Take care, madame, you will kill yourself in jumping.", "pos": 983830}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "In the name of heaven, sir, tell me if it is to you, if it is to your government, if it is to an enemy I am to attribute the violence that is done me?", "pos": 984286}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "No violence will be offered to you, madame, and what happens to you is the result of a very simple measure which we are obliged to adopt with all who land in England.", "pos": 984439}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Then you don’t know me, sir?", "pos": 984608}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "It is the first time I have had the honor of seeing you.", "pos": 984639}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "And on your honor, you have no cause of hatred against me?", "pos": 984698}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "None, I swear to you.", "pos": 984759}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Still, then, I am a prisoner, but I feel assured it will not be for long. My own conscience and your politeness, sir, are the guarantees of that.", "pos": 985530}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "In the name of heaven, sir, what means all that is passing? Put an end to my doubts; I have courage enough for any danger I can foresee, for every misfortune which I understand. Where am I, and why am I here? If I am free, why these bars and these doors? If I am a prisoner, what crime have I committed?", "pos": 987702}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "You are here in the apartment destined for you, madame. I received orders to go and take charge of you on the sea, and to conduct you to this castle. This order I believe I have accomplished with all the exactness of a soldier, but also with the courtesy of a gentleman. There terminates, at least to the present moment, the duty I had to fulfill toward you; the rest concerns another person.", "pos": 988021}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "And who is that other person? Can you not tell me his name?", "pos": 988416}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "That person is here, madame,", "pos": 988658}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What, my brother, is it you?", "pos": 989318}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Yes, fair lady! it is I, myself.", "pos": 989349}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But this castle, then?", "pos": 989455}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Is mine.", "pos": 989480}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "This chamber?", "pos": 989491}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Is yours.", "pos": 989507}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I am, then, your prisoner?", "pos": 989519}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Nearly so.", "pos": 989548}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But this is a frightful abuse of power!", "pos": 989561}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "No high-sounding words! Let us sit down and chat quietly, as brother and sister ought to do. All is well, I thank you; now leave us alone, Mr. Felton.", "pos": 989603}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes, let us chat, brother,", "pos": 991431}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "You have, then, decided to come to England again, in spite of the resolutions you so often expressed in Paris never to set your feet on British ground?", "pos": 991686}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "To begin with, tell me, how have you watched me so closely as to be aware beforehand not only of my arrival, but even of the day, the hour, and the port at which I should arrive?", "pos": 991916}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "But tell me, my dear sister, what makes you come to England?", "pos": 992232}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I come to see you,", "pos": 992309}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Ah, to see me?", "pos": 992566}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "To be sure, to see you. What is there astonishing in that?", "pos": 992610}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "And you had no other object in coming to England but to see me?", "pos": 992671}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "No.", "pos": 992737}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "So it was for me alone you have taken the trouble to cross the Channel?", "pos": 992743}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "For you alone.", "pos": 992817}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "The deuce! What tenderness, my sister!", "pos": 992834}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But am I not your nearest relative?", "pos": 992875}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "And my only heir, are you not?", "pos": 992978}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I do not understand, my Lord. What do you mean to say? Is there any secret meaning concealed beneath your words?", "pos": 993683}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Oh, my God, no! You wish to see me, and you come to England. I learn this desire, or rather I suspect that you feel it; and in order to spare you all the annoyances of a nocturnal arrival in a port and all the fatigues of landing, I send one of my officers to meet you, I place a carriage at his orders, and he brings you hither to this castle, of which I am governor, whither I come every day, and where, in order to satisfy our mutual desire of seeing each other, I have prepared you a chamber. What is there more astonishing in all that I have said to you than in what you have told me?", "pos": 993866}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "No; what I think astonishing is that you should expect my coming.", "pos": 994508}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "And yet that is the most simple thing in the world, my dear sister. Have you not observed that the captain of your little vessel, on entering the roadstead, sent forward, in order to obtain permission to enter the port, a little boat bearing his logbook and the register of his voyagers? I am commandant of the port. They brought me that book. I recognized your name in it. My heart told me what your mouth has just confirmed—that is to say, with what view you have exposed yourself to the dangers of a sea so perilous, or at least so troublesome at this moment—and I sent my cutter to meet you. You know the rest.", "pos": 994576}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "My brother, was not that my Lord Buckingham whom I saw on the jetty this evening as we arrived?", "pos": 995261}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Himself. Ah, I can understand how the sight of him struck you. You came from a country where he must be very much talked of, and I know that his armaments against France greatly engage the attention of your friend the cardinal.", "pos": 995376}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "My friend the cardinal!", "pos": 995632}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Is he not your friend? Ah, pardon! I thought so; but we will return to my Lord Duke presently. Let us not depart from the sentimental turn our conversation had taken. You came, you say, to see me?", "pos": 995753}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 995986}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Well, I reply that you shall be served to the height of your wishes, and that we shall see each other every day.", "pos": 995993}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Am I, then, to remain here eternally?", "pos": 996108}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Do you find yourself badly lodged, sister? Demand anything you want, and I will hasten to have you furnished with it.", "pos": 996188}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But I have neither my women nor my servants.", "pos": 996308}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "You shall have all, madame. Tell me on what footing your household was established by your first husband, and although I am only your brother-in-law, I will arrange one similar.", "pos": 996355}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "My first husband!", "pos": 996535}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Yes, your French husband. I don’t speak of my brother. If you have forgotten, as he is still living, I can write to him and he will send me information on the subject.", "pos": 996641}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "You jest!", "pos": 996855}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Do I look so?", "pos": 996896}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Or rather you insult me,", "pos": 996963}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "I insult you! In truth, madame, do you think that can be possible?", "pos": 997108}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Indeed, sir, you must be either drunk or mad. Leave the room, and send me a woman.", "pos": 997215}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Women are very indiscreet, my sister. Cannot I serve you as a waiting maid? By that means all our secrets will remain in the family.", "pos": 997315}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Insolent!", "pos": 997450}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Come! I know you are accustomed to assassinate people; but I warn you I shall defend myself, even against you.", "pos": 997643}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "You are right. You have all the appearance of being cowardly enough to lift your hand against a woman.", "pos": 997767}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Perhaps so; and I have an excuse, for mine would not be the first hand of a man that has been placed upon you, I imagine. Oh, growl as much as you please, but don’t try to bite, for I warn you that it would be to your disadvantage. There are here no procurators who regulate successions beforehand. There is no knight-errant to come and seek a quarrel with me on account of the fair lady I detain a prisoner; but I have judges quite ready who will quickly dispose of a woman so shameless as to glide, a bigamist, into the bed of Lord de Winter, my brother. And these judges, I warn you, will soon send you to an executioner who will make both your shoulders alike. Yes, I can very well understand that after having inherited the fortune of my brother it would be very agreeable to you to be my heir likewise; but know beforehand, if you kill me or cause me to be killed, my precautions are taken. Not a penny of what I possess will pass into your hands. Were you not already rich enough—you who possess nearly a million? And could you not stop your fatal career, if you did not do evil for the infinite and supreme joy of doing it? Oh, be assured, if the memory of my brother were not sacred to me, you should rot in a state dungeon or satisfy the curiosity of sailors at Tyburn. I will be silent, but you must endure your captivity quietly. In fifteen or twenty days I shall set out for La Rochelle with the army; but on the eve of my departure a vessel which I shall see depart will take you hence and convey you to our colonies in the south. And be assured that you shall be accompanied by one who will blow your brains out at the first attempt you make to return to England or the Continent. Yes, at present, you will remain in this castle. The walls are thick, the doors strong, and the bars solid; besides, your window opens immediately over the sea. The men of my crew, who are devoted to me for life and death, mount guard around this apartment, and watch all the passages that lead to the courtyard. Even if you gained the yard, there would still be three iron gates for you to pass. The order is positive. A step, a gesture, a word, on your part, denoting an effort to escape, and you are to be fired upon. If they kill you, English justice will be under an obligation to me for having saved it trouble. Ah! I see your features regain their calmness, your countenance recovers its assurance. You are saying to yourself: 'Fifteen days, twenty days? Bah! I have an inventive mind; before that is expired some idea will occur to me. I have an infernal spirit. I shall meet with a victim. Before fifteen days are gone by I shall be away from here.' Ah, try it! The officer who commands here in my absence you have already seen, and therefore know him. He knows how, as you must have observed, to obey an order—for you did not, I am sure, come from Portsmouth hither without endeavoring to make him speak. What do you say of him? Could a statue of marble have been more impassive and more mute? You have already tried the power of your seductions upon many men, and unfortunately you have always succeeded; but I give you leave to try them upon this one. Pardieu! if you succeed with him, I pronounce you the demon himself. Call Mr. Felton. Wait a minute longer, and I will introduce him to you. Come in, my dear John, come in, and shut the door. Now, look at this woman. She is young; she is beautiful; she possesses all earthly seductions. Well, she is a monster, who, at twenty-five years of age, has been guilty of as many crimes as you could read of in a year in the archives of our tribunals. Her voice prejudices her hearers in her favor; her beauty serves as a bait to her victims; her body even pays what she promises—I must do her that justice. She will try to seduce you, perhaps she will try to kill you. I have extricated you from misery, Felton; I have caused you to be named lieutenant; I once saved your life, you know on what occasion. I am for you not only a protector, but a friend; not only a benefactor, but a father. This woman has come back again into England for the purpose of conspiring against my life. I hold this serpent in my hands. Well, I call you, and say to you: Friend Felton, John, my child, guard me, and more particularly guard yourself, against this woman. Swear, by your hopes of salvation, to keep her safely for the chastisement she has merited. John Felton, I trust your word! John Felton, I put faith in your loyalty!", "pos": 997887}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "My Lord, my Lord, I swear all shall be done as you desire.", "pos": 1003581}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "She is not to leave this chamber, understand, John. She is to correspond with nobody; she is to speak to no one but you—if you will do her the honor to address a word to her.", "pos": 1004039}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "That is sufficient, my Lord! I have sworn.", "pos": 1004239}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "And now, madame, try to make your peace with God, for you are judged by men!", "pos": 1004284}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Divide in order to reign.", "pos": 1009759}
{"speaker": "Grimaud", "text": "Officer!", "pos": 1015283}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You are speaking, you scoundrel!", "pos": 1015309}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "It appears that Messieurs the Musketeers keep guard. Are the English expected by land, or do the Musketeers consider themselves superior officers?", "pos": 1015723}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Monseigneur. Monseigneur, the Musketeers, when they are not on duty, or when their duty is over, drink and play at dice, and they are certainly superior officers to their lackeys.", "pos": 1015883}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Lackeys? Lackeys who have the order to warn their masters when anyone passes are not lackeys, they are sentinels.", "pos": 1016189}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Your Eminence may perceive that if we had not taken this precaution, we should have been exposed to allowing you to pass without presenting you our respects or offering you our thanks for the favor you have done us in uniting us. D’Artagnan, you, who but lately were so anxious for such an opportunity for expressing your gratitude to Monseigneur, here it is; avail yourself of it.", "pos": 1016330}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "It does not signify, gentlemen, it does not signify, gentlemen. I do not like to have simple soldiers, because they have the advantage of serving in a privileged corps, thus to play the great lords; discipline is the same for them as for everybody else.", "pos": 1017081}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Discipline, Monseigneur, has, I hope, in no way been forgotten by us. We are not on duty, and we believed that not being on duty we were at liberty to dispose of our time as we pleased. If we are so fortunate as to have some particular duty to perform for your Eminence, we are ready to obey you. Your Eminence may perceive, that we have not come out without our arms.", "pos": 1017595}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Your Eminence may believe, that we would have come to meet you, if we could have supposed it was Monseigneur coming toward us with so few attendants.", "pos": 1018172}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Do you know what you look like, all together, as you are armed and guarded by your lackeys? You look like four conspirators.", "pos": 1018403}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Oh, as to that, Monseigneur, it is true, we do conspire, as your Eminence might have seen the other morning. Only we conspire against the Rochellais.", "pos": 1018551}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Ah, you gentlemen of policy! the secret of many unknown things might perhaps be found in your brains, if we could read them as you read that letter which you concealed as soon as you saw me coming.", "pos": 1018717}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "One might think you really suspected us, monseigneur, and we were undergoing a real interrogatory. If it be so, we trust your Eminence will deign to explain yourself, and we should then at least be acquainted with our real position.", "pos": 1019052}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "And if it were an interrogatory! Others besides you have undergone such, Monsieur Athos, and have replied thereto.", "pos": 1019287}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Thus I have told your Eminence that you had but to question us, and we are ready to reply.", "pos": 1019428}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "What was that letter you were about to read, Monsieur Aramis, and which you so promptly concealed?", "pos": 1019521}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "A woman’s letter, monseigneur.", "pos": 1019622}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Ah, yes, I see, we must be discreet with this sort of letters; but nevertheless, we may show them to a confessor, and you know I have taken orders.", "pos": 1019655}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Monseigneur, the letter is a woman’s letter, but it is neither signed Marion de Lorme, nor Madame d’Aiguillon.", "pos": 1019826}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Well, well! you are brave young men, proud in daylight, faithful in darkness. We can find no fault with you for watching over yourselves, when you watch so carefully over others. Gentlemen, I have not forgotten the night in which you served me as an escort to the Red Dovecot. If there were any danger to be apprehended on the road I am going, I would request you to accompany me; but as there is none, remain where you are, finish your bottles, your game, and your letter. Adieu, gentlemen!", "pos": 1020629}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "That Grimaud kept bad watch!", "pos": 1021685}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Would you have given up the letter, Aramis?", "pos": 1021889}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "I. I had made up my mind. If he had insisted upon the letter being given up to him, I would have presented the letter to him with one hand, and with the other I would have run my sword through his body.", "pos": 1021952}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I expected as much, and that was why I threw myself between you and him. Indeed, this man is very much to blame for talking thus to other men; one would say he had never had to do with any but women and children.", "pos": 1022200}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "My dear Athos, I admire you, but nevertheless we were in the wrong, after all.", "pos": 1022429}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "How, in the wrong? Whose, then, is the air we breathe? Whose is the ocean upon which we look? Whose is the sand upon which we were reclining? Whose is that letter of your mistress? Do these belong to the cardinal? Upon my honor, this man fancies the world belongs to him. There you stood, stammering, stupefied, annihilated. One might have supposed the Bastille appeared before you, and that the gigantic Medusa had converted you into stone. Is being in love conspiring? You are in love with a woman whom the cardinal has caused to be shut up, and you wish to get her out of the hands of the cardinal. That’s a match you are playing with his Eminence; this letter is your game. Why should you expose your game to your adversary? That is never done. Let him find it out if he can! We can find out his!", "pos": 1022510}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, that’s all very sensible, Athos,", "pos": 1023327}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "In that case, let there be no more question of what’s past, and let Aramis resume the letter from his cousin where the cardinal interrupted him.", "pos": 1023385}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You had only read a line or two, read the letter again from the commencement.", "pos": 1023672}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Willingly,", "pos": 1023771}
{"speaker": "Marie Michon", "text": "MY DEAR COUSIN, I think I shall make up my mind to set out for Béthune, where my sister has placed our little servant in the convent of the Carmelites; this poor child is quite resigned, as she knows she cannot live elsewhere without the salvation of her soul being in danger. Nevertheless, if the affairs of our family are arranged, as we hope they will be, I believe she will run the risk of being damned, and will return to those she regrets, particularly as she knows they are always thinking of her. Meanwhile, she is not very wretched; what she most desires is a letter from her intended. I know that such viands pass with difficulty through convent gratings; but after all, as I have given you proofs, my dear cousin, I am not unskilled in such affairs, and I will take charge of the commission. My sister thanks you for your good and eternal remembrance. She has experienced much anxiety; but she is now at length a little reassured, having sent her secretary away in order that nothing may happen unexpectedly. Adieu, my dear cousin. Tell us news of yourself as often as you can; that is to say, as often as you can with safety. I embrace you.", "pos": 1023797}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, what do I not owe you, Aramis? Dear Constance! I have at length, then, intelligence of you. She lives; she is in safety in a convent; she is at Béthune! Where is Béthune, Athos?", "pos": 1024967}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Why, upon the frontiers of Artois and of Flanders. The siege once over, we shall be able to make a tour in that direction.", "pos": 1025170}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "And that will not be long, it is to be hoped, for they have this morning hanged a spy who confessed that the Rochellais were reduced to the leather of their shoes. Supposing that after having eaten the leather they eat the soles, I cannot see much that is left unless they eat one another.", "pos": 1025295}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Poor fools! poor fools! As if the Catholic religion was not the most advantageous and the most agreeable of all religions! All the same, they are brave fellows! But what the devil are you about, Aramis? Why, you are squeezing that letter into your pocket!", "pos": 1025603}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes. Athos is right, it must be burned. And yet if we burn it, who knows whether Monsieur Cardinal has not a secret to interrogate ashes?", "pos": 1026091}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "He must have one,", "pos": 1026250}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "What will you do with the letter, then?", "pos": 1026282}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Come here, Grimaud. As a punishment for having spoken without permission, my friend, you will please to eat this piece of paper; then to recompense you for the service you will have rendered us, you shall afterward drink this glass of wine. First, here is the letter. Eat heartily. Bravo, Monsieur Grimaud! and now take this. That’s well. We dispense with your saying grace. And now, unless Monsieur Cardinal should form the ingenious idea of ripping up Grimaud, I think we may be pretty much at our ease respecting the letter.", "pos": 1026339}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "These four men must positively be mine.", "pos": 1027367}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Go to, go to! I must have been mad to allow myself to be carried away so. No violence; violence is the proof of weakness. In the first place, I have never succeeded by that means. Perhaps if I employed my strength against women I might perchance find them weaker than myself, and consequently conquer them; but it is with men that I struggle, and I am but a woman to them. Let me fight like a woman, then; my strength is in my weakness. Come, nothing is lost; I am still beautiful.", "pos": 1031081}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Place that table there. You will bring lights, and relieve the sentinel. Ah, ah! she is asleep; that’s well. When she wakes she can sup.", "pos": 1033225}
{"speaker": "a soldier", "text": "But, my lieutenant, this woman is not asleep.", "pos": 1033902}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "What, not asleep! what is she doing, then?", "pos": 1034028}
{"speaker": "a soldier", "text": "She has fainted. Her face is very pale, and I have listened in vain; I do not hear her breathe.", "pos": 1034088}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "You are right. Go and tell Lord de Winter that his prisoner has fainted—for this event not having been foreseen, I don’t know what to do.", "pos": 1034186}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Ah, you are awake, madame, then I have nothing more to do here. If you want anything you can ring.", "pos": 1035225}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, my God, my God! how I have suffered!", "pos": 1035337}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "You will be served, thus, madame, three times a day. In the morning at nine o’clock, in the day at one o’clock, and in the evening at eight. If that does not suit you, you can point out what other hours you prefer, and in this respect your wishes will be complied with.", "pos": 1035638}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But am I to remain always alone in this vast and dismal chamber?", "pos": 1035921}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "A woman of the neighbourhood has been sent for, who will be tomorrow at the castle, and will return as often as you desire her presence.", "pos": 1036002}
{"speaker": "the prisoner", "text": "I thank you, sir,", "pos": 1036141}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Well, what is it—what is going on here? Is this corpse come to life already? Felton, my lad, did you not perceive that you were taken for a novice, and that the first act was being performed of a comedy of which we shall doubtless have the pleasure of following out all the developments?", "pos": 1036453}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "I thought so, my lord, but as the prisoner is a woman, after all, I wish to pay her the attention that every man of gentle birth owes to a woman, if not on her account, at least on my own.", "pos": 1036836}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "So, that beautiful hair so skillfully disheveled, that white skin, and that languishing look, have not yet seduced you, you heart of stone?", "pos": 1037144}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "No, my Lord, your Lordship may be assured that it requires more than the tricks and coquetry of a woman to corrupt me.", "pos": 1037317}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "In that case, my brave lieutenant, let us leave Milady to find out something else, and go to supper; but be easy! She has a fruitful imagination, and the second act of the comedy will not delay its steps after the first.", "pos": 1037473}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, I will be a match for you! be assured of that, you poor spoiled monk, you poor converted soldier, who has cut his uniform out of a monk’s frock!", "pos": 1037796}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "By the way, you must not, Milady, let this check take away your appetite. Taste that fowl and those fish. On my honor, they are not poisoned. I have a very good cook, and he is not to be my heir; I have full and perfect confidence in him. Do as I do. Adieu, dear sister, till your next swoon!", "pos": 1037985}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Ha, ha! ha, ha! Don’t you see, my brave Felton; don’t you see what I told you? That knife was for you, my lad; she would have killed you. Observe, this is one of her peculiarities, to get rid thus, after one fashion or another, of all the people who bother her. If I had listened to you, the knife would have been pointed and of steel. Then no more of Felton; she would have cut your throat, and after that everybody else’s. See, John, see how well she knows how to handle a knife.", "pos": 1038870}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "You were right, my Lord, you were right, my Lord, and I was wrong.", "pos": 1039572}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I am lost. I am lost! I am in the power of men upon whom I can have no more influence than upon statues of bronze or granite; they know me by heart, and are steeled against all my weapons. It is, however, impossible that this should end as they have decreed!", "pos": 1039906}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Weak or strong, that man has, then, a spark of pity in his soul; of that spark I will make a flame that shall devour him. As to the other, he knows me, he fears me, and knows what he has to expect of me if ever I escape from his hands. It is useless, then, to attempt anything with him. But Felton—that’s another thing. He is a young, ingenuous, pure man who seems virtuous; him there are means of destroying.", "pos": 1041011}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I am in a fever. I have not slept a single instant during all this long night. I suffer horribly. Are you likely to be more humane to me than others were yesterday? All I ask is permission to remain abed.", "pos": 1042371}
{"speaker": "the woman", "text": "Would you like to have a physician called?", "pos": 1042590}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Go and fetch a physician? What could be the good of that? These gentlemen declared yesterday that my illness was a comedy; it would be just the same today, no doubt—for since yesterday evening they have had plenty of time to send for a doctor.", "pos": 1042990}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Then, say yourself, madame, what treatment you wish followed.", "pos": 1043248}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Eh, how can I tell? My God! I know that I suffer, that’s all. Give me anything you like, it is of little consequence.", "pos": 1043349}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Go and fetch Lord de Winter,", "pos": 1043469}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, no, no! no, sir, do not call him, I conjure you. I am well, I want nothing; do not call him.", "pos": 1043548}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Meanwhile, madame, if you really suffer, a physician shall be sent for; and if you deceive us—well, it will be the worse for you. But at least we shall not have to reproach ourselves with anything.", "pos": 1043834}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I fancy I begin to see my way. Now it is time that the malady should be over, let me rise, and obtain some success this very day. I have but ten days, and this evening two of them will be gone.", "pos": 1044373}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Lord de Winter, who is a Catholic, like yourself, madame, thinking that the deprivation of the rites and ceremonies of your church might be painful to you, has consented that you should read every day the ordinary of your Mass; and here is a book which contains the ritual.", "pos": 1045382}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I? I, sir? My Mass? Lord de Winter, the corrupted Catholic, knows very well that I am not of his religion, and this is a snare he wishes to lay for me!", "pos": 1046744}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "And of what religion are you, then, madame?", "pos": 1047014}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I will tell it, on the day when I shall have suffered sufficiently for my faith. I am in the hands of my enemies. Well, let my God save me, or let me perish for my God! That is the reply I beg you to make to Lord de Winter. And as to this book, you may carry it back and make use of it yourself, for doubtless you are doubly the accomplice of Lord de Winter—the accomplice in his persecutions, the accomplice in his heresies.", "pos": 1047176}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "It appears, it appears we have made a little apostasy!", "pos": 1048390}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What do you mean, sir!", "pos": 1048587}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "I mean to say that since we last met you have changed your religion. You have not by chance married a Protestant for a third husband, have you?", "pos": 1048612}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Explain yourself, my Lord, for though I hear your words, I declare I do not understand them.", "pos": 1048758}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Then you have no religion at all; I like that best,", "pos": 1048891}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Certainly that is most in accord with your own principles,", "pos": 1048979}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Oh, I confess it is all the same to me.", "pos": 1049066}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, you need not avow this religious indifference, my Lord; your debaucheries and crimes would vouch for it.", "pos": 1049108}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "What, you talk of debaucheries, Madame Messalina, Lady Macbeth! Either I misunderstand you or you are very shameless!", "pos": 1049219}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "You only speak thus because you are overheard, and you wish to interest your jailers and your hangmen against me.", "pos": 1049339}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "My jailers and my hangmen! Heyday, madame! you are taking a poetical tone, and the comedy of yesterday turns to a tragedy this evening. As to the rest, in eight days you will be where you ought to be, and my task will be completed.", "pos": 1049480}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Infamous task! impious task!", "pos": 1049714}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "My word. I think the hussy is going mad! Come, come, calm yourself, Madame Puritan, or I’ll remove you to a dungeon. It’s my Spanish wine that has got into your head, is it not? But never mind; that sort of intoxication is not dangerous, and will have no bad effects.", "pos": 1049815}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes, go, go! the effects are drawing near, on the contrary; but you, weak fool, will not see them until it is too late to shun them.", "pos": 1050299}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Thou leavest thy servants, Lord, To see if they be strong; But soon thou dost afford Thy hand to lead them on.", "pos": 1051847}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "Hold your tongue, madame! Your song is as dismal as a ‘De profundis’; and if besides the pleasure of being in garrison here, we must hear such things as these, no mortal can hold out.", "pos": 1052628}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Silence! What are you meddling with, stupid? Did anybody order you to prevent that woman from singing? No. You were told to guard her—to fire at her if she attempted to fly. Guard her! If she flies, kill her; but don’t exceed your orders.", "pos": 1052814}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "For all my tears, my cares, My exile, and my chains, I have my youth, my prayers, And God, who counts my pains. One day our doors will ope, With God come our desire; And if betrays that hope, To death we can aspire.", "pos": 1053467}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Why do you sing thus, and with such a voice?", "pos": 1054343}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Your pardon, sir. I forgot that my songs are out of place in this castle. I have perhaps offended you in your creed; but it was without wishing to do so, I swear. Pardon me, then, a fault which is perhaps great, but which certainly was involuntary.", "pos": 1054399}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Yes, yes, you disturb, you agitate the people who live in the castle.", "pos": 1054921}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I will be silent, then,", "pos": 1055157}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "No, no, madame, only do not sing so loud, particularly at night.", "pos": 1055330}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "You have done right, Lieutenant. Such songs disturb the mind; and yet we become accustomed to them, her voice is so beautiful.", "pos": 1055537}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Ah, ah! after having played comedy, after having played tragedy, we are now playing melancholy? Yes, yes. I understand. You would like very well to be at liberty on that beach! You would like very well to be in a good ship dancing upon the waves of that emerald-green sea; you would like very well, either on land or on the ocean, to lay for me one of those nice little ambuscades you are so skillful in planning. Patience, patience! In four days’ time the shore will be beneath your feet, the sea will be open to you—more open than will perhaps be agreeable to you, for in four days England will be relieved of you.", "pos": 1057756}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Lord, Lord, pardon this man, as I myself pardon him.", "pos": 1058522}
{"speaker": "Baron", "text": "Yes, pray, accursed woman! your prayer is so much the more generous from your being, I swear to you, in the power of a man who will never pardon you!", "pos": 1058635}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "My God, my God! thou knowest in what holy cause I suffer; give me, then, strength to suffer. God of vengeance! God of goodness! wilt thou allow the frightful projects of this man to be accomplished?", "pos": 1059064}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "I do not like to disturb those who pray, madame, do not disturb yourself on my account, I beseech you.", "pos": 1059558}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "How do you know I was praying, sir? You were deceived, sir; I was not praying.", "pos": 1059689}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Do you think, then, madame, do you think I assume the right of preventing a creature from prostrating herself before her Creator? God forbid! Besides, repentance becomes the guilty; whatever crimes they may have committed, for me the guilty are sacred at the feet of God!", "pos": 1059812}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Guilty? I? Guilty? Oh, my God, thou knowest whether I am guilty! Say I am condemned, sir, if you please; but you know that God, who loves martyrs, sometimes permits the innocent to be condemned.", "pos": 1060155}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Were you condemned, were you innocent, were you a martyr, the greater would be the necessity for prayer; and I myself would aid you with my prayers.", "pos": 1060438}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, you are a just man! I can hold out no longer, for I fear I shall be wanting in strength at the moment when I shall be forced to undergo the struggle, and confess my faith. Listen, then, to the supplication of a despairing woman. You are abused, sir; but that is not the question. I only ask you one favor; and if you grant it me, I will bless you in this world and in the next.", "pos": 1060607}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Speak to the master, madame, happily I am neither charged with the power of pardoning nor punishing. It is upon one higher placed than I am that God has laid this responsibility.", "pos": 1061037}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "To you—no, to you alone! Listen to me, rather than add to my destruction, rather than add to my ignominy!", "pos": 1061233}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "If you have merited this shame, madame, if you have incurred this ignominy, you must submit to it as an offering to God.", "pos": 1061341}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What do you say? Oh, you do not understand me! When I speak of ignominy, you think I speak of some chastisement, of imprisonment or death. Would to heaven! Of what consequence to me is imprisonment or death?", "pos": 1061464}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "It is I who no longer understand you, madame,", "pos": 1061674}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Or, rather, who pretend not to understand me, sir!", "pos": 1061735}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "No, madame, on the honor of a soldier, on the faith of a Christian.", "pos": 1061839}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What, you are ignorant of Lord de Winter’s designs upon me?", "pos": 1061909}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "I am.", "pos": 1061971}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Impossible; you are his confidant!", "pos": 1061979}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "I never lie, madame.", "pos": 1062016}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, he conceals them too little for you not to divine them.", "pos": 1062039}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "I seek to divine nothing, madame; I wait till I am confided in, and apart from that which Lord de Winter has said to me before you, he has confided nothing to me.", "pos": 1062101}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Why, then, you are not his accomplice; you do not know that he destines me to a disgrace which all the punishments of the world cannot equal in horror?", "pos": 1062265}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "You are deceived, madame. Lord de Winter is not capable of such a crime.", "pos": 1062476}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Good, without thinking what it is, he calls it a crime! The friend of that wretch is capable of everything.", "pos": 1062576}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Whom do you call that wretch?", "pos": 1062726}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Are there, then, in England two men to whom such an epithet can be applied?", "pos": 1062772}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "You mean George Villiers?", "pos": 1062850}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Whom Pagans and unbelieving Gentiles call Duke of Buckingham. I could not have thought that there was an Englishman in all England who would have required so long an explanation to make him understand of whom I was speaking.", "pos": 1062920}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "The hand of the Lord is stretched over him, he will not escape the chastisement he deserves.", "pos": 1063165}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, my God, my God! when I supplicate thee to pour upon this man the chastisement which is his due, thou knowest it is not my own vengeance I pursue, but the deliverance of a whole nation that I implore!", "pos": 1063521}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Do you know him, then?", "pos": 1063743}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "At length he interrogates me! Oh, know him? Yes, yes! to my misfortune, to my eternal misfortune! Sir, be kind, be clement, listen to my prayer! That knife, which the fatal prudence of the baron deprived me of, because he knows the use I would make of it! Oh, hear me to the end! that knife, give it to me for a minute only, for mercy’s, for pity’s sake! I will embrace your knees! You shall shut the door that you may be certain I contemplate no injury to you! My God! to you—the only just, good, and compassionate being I have met with! To you—my preserver, perhaps! One minute that knife, one minute, a single minute, and I will restore it to you through the grating of the door. Only one minute, Mr. Felton, and you will have saved my honor!", "pos": 1063782}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "To kill yourself? to kill yourself?", "pos": 1064904}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I have told, sir. I have told my secret! He knows all! My God, I am lost! He still doubts. I have not been earnest enough. Oh, not a word, not a word of all that I have said to you to this man, or I am lost, and it would be you—you—", "pos": 1065036}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Ah! at length you are mine! If he tells the baron. I am lost—for the baron, who knows very well that I shall not kill myself, will place me before him with a knife in my hand, and he will discover that all this despair is but acted. Oh, yes, but we won’t tell him! Sir, is your presence an indispensable accessory of my captivity? Could you not spare me the increase of torture which your visits cause me?", "pos": 1066169}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "How, dear sister! Did not you sentimentally inform me with that pretty mouth of yours, so cruel to me today, that you came to England solely for the pleasure of seeing me at your ease, an enjoyment of which you told me you so sensibly felt the deprivation that you had risked everything for it—seasickness, tempest, captivity? Well, here I am; be satisfied. Besides, this time, my visit has a motive. Here. I want to show you the kind of passport which I have drawn up, and which will serve you henceforward as the rule of order in the life I consent to leave you. Order to conduct— The name is blank. If you have any preference you can point it out to me; and if it be not within a thousand leagues of London, attention will be paid to your wishes. I will begin again, then: Order to conduct to—the person named Charlotte Backson, branded by the justice of the kingdom of France, but liberated after chastisement. She is to dwell in this place without ever going more than three leagues from it. In case of any attempt to escape, the penalty of death is to be applied. She will receive five shillings per day for lodging and food", "pos": 1066955}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "That order does not concern me, since it bears another name than mine.", "pos": 1068563}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "A name? Have you a name, then?", "pos": 1068662}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I bear that of your brother.", "pos": 1068695}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Ay, but you are mistaken. My brother is only your second husband; and your first is still living. Tell me his name, and I will put it in the place of the name of Charlotte Backson. No? You will not? You are silent? Well, then you must be registered as Charlotte Backson. Yes, yes, yes, you look for the signature, and you say to yourself: ‘All is not lost, for that order is not signed. It is only shown to me to terrify me, that’s all.’ You are mistaken. Tomorrow this order will be sent to the Duke of Buckingham. The day after tomorrow it will return signed by his hand and marked with his seal; and four-and-twenty hours afterward I will answer for its being carried into execution. Adieu, madame. That is all I had to say to you.", "pos": 1068726}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "And I reply to you, sir, that this abuse of power, this exile under a fictitious name, are infamous!", "pos": 1069985}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Would you like better to be hanged in your true name, Milady? You know that the English laws are inexorable on the abuse of marriage. Speak freely. Although my name, or rather that of my brother, would be mixed up with the affair, I will risk the scandal of a public trial to make myself certain of getting rid of you. Oh, I see you prefer peregrination. That’s well madame; and there is an old proverb that says, ‘Traveling trains youth.’ My faith! you are not wrong after all, and life is sweet. That’s the reason why I take such care you shall not deprive me of mine. There only remains, then, the question of the five shillings to be settled. You think me rather parsimonious, don’t you? That’s because I don’t care to leave you the means of corrupting your jailers. Besides, you will always have your charms left to seduce them with. Employ them, if your check with regard to Felton has not disgusted you with attempts of that kind.", "pos": 1070088}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Felton has not told him. Nothing is lost, then.", "pos": 1071084}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "And now, madame, till I see you again! Tomorrow I will come and announce to you the departure of my messenger.", "pos": 1071160}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "It is he. And I began the same religious chant which had so strongly excited Felton the evening before. But although her voice—sweet, full, and sonorous—vibrated as harmoniously and as affectingly as ever, the door remained shut.", "pos": 1072245}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "What is this, madame?", "pos": 1073761}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "That? Nothing. Ennui is the mortal enemy of prisoners; I had ennui, and I amused myself with twisting that rope.", "pos": 1073802}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "What were you doing on that armchair?", "pos": 1074394}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Of what consequence?", "pos": 1074444}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "But. I wish to know.", "pos": 1074483}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Do not question me, you know that we who are true Christians are forbidden to lie.", "pos": 1074524}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Well, then. I will tell you what you were doing, or rather what you meant to do; you were going to complete the fatal project you cherish in your mind. Remember, madame, if our God forbids falsehood, he much more severely condemns suicide.", "pos": 1074630}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "When God sees one of his creatures persecuted unjustly, placed between suicide and dishonor, believe me, sir. God pardons suicide, for then suicide becomes martyrdom.", "pos": 1074887}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "You say either too much or too little; speak, madame. In the name of heaven, explain yourself.", "pos": 1075104}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "That I may relate my misfortunes for you to treat them as fables; that I may tell you my projects for you to go and betray them to my persecutor? No, sir. Besides, of what importance to you is the life or death of a condemned wretch? You are only responsible for my body, is it not so? And provided you produce a carcass that may be recognized as mine, they will require no more of you; nay, perhaps you will even have a double reward.", "pos": 1075201}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "I, madame, I? You suppose that I would ever accept the price of your life? Oh, you cannot believe what you say!", "pos": 1075639}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Let me act as I please, Felton, let me act as I please. Every soldier must be ambitious, must he not? You are a lieutenant? Well, you will follow me to the grave with the rank of captain.", "pos": 1075769}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "What have I, then, done to you, that you should load me with such a responsibility before God and before men? In a few days you will be away from this place; your life, madame, will then no longer be under my care, and, then you can do what you will with it.", "pos": 1075982}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "So, you, a pious man, you who are called a just man, you ask but one thing—and that is that you may not be inculpated, annoyed, by my death!", "pos": 1076298}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "It is my duty to watch over your life, madame, and I will watch.", "pos": 1076524}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But do you understand the mission you are fulfilling? Cruel enough, if I am guilty; but what name can you give it, what name will the Lord give it, if I am innocent?", "pos": 1076591}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "I am a soldier, madame, and fulfill the orders I have received.", "pos": 1076759}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Do you believe, then, that at the day of the Last Judgment God will separate blind executioners from iniquitous judges? You are not willing that I should kill my body, and you make yourself the agent of him who would kill my soul.", "pos": 1076825}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "But I repeat it again to you, no danger threatens you; I will answer for Lord de Winter as for myself.", "pos": 1077058}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Dunce, dunce! who dares to answer for another man, when the wisest, when those most after God’s own heart, hesitate to answer for themselves, and who ranges himself on the side of the strongest and the most fortunate, to crush the weakest and the most unfortunate.", "pos": 1077199}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Impossible, madame, impossible. A prisoner, you will not recover your liberty through me; living, you will not lose your life through me.", "pos": 1077482}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes, but I shall lose that which is much dearer to me than life, I shall lose my honor, Felton; and it is you, you whom I make responsible, before God and before men, for my shame and my infamy.", "pos": 1077708}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Let this victim to Baal be sent, To the lions the martyr be thrown! Thy God shall teach thee to repent! From th’ abyss he’ll give ear to my moan.", "pos": 1079152}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Who art thou? Who art thou? Art thou a messenger from God; art thou a minister from hell; art thou an angel or a demon; callest thou thyself Eloa or Astarte?", "pos": 1079364}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Do you not know me, Felton? I am neither an angel nor a demon; I am a daughter of earth, I am a sister of thy faith, that is all.", "pos": 1079556}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Yes, yes! I doubted, but now I believe.", "pos": 1079688}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "You believe, and still you are an accomplice of that child of Belial who is called Lord de Winter! You believe, and yet you leave me in the hands of mine enemies, of the enemy of England, of the enemy of God! You believe, and yet you deliver me up to him who fills and defiles the world with his heresies and debaucheries—to that infamous Sardanapalus whom the blind call the Duke of Buckingham, and whom believers name Antichrist! I deliver you up to Buckingham? I? what mean you by that? They have eyes, but they see not; ears have they, but they hear not.", "pos": 1079745}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Yes, yes! Yes, I recognize the voice which speaks to me in my dreams; yes, I recognize the features of the angel who appears to me every night, crying to my soul, which cannot sleep: ‘Strike, save England, save thyself—for thou wilt die without having appeased God!’ Speak, speak! I can understand you now.", "pos": 1080325}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But no, it is not for me to be the Judith to deliver Bethulia from this Holofernes. The sword of the eternal is too heavy for my arm. Allow me, then, to avoid dishonor by death; let me take refuge in martyrdom. I do not ask you for liberty, as a guilty one would, nor for vengeance, as would a pagan. Let me die; that is all. I supplicate you, I implore you on my knees—let me die, and my last sigh shall be a blessing for my preserver.", "pos": 1081655}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Alas! I can do but one thing, which is to pity you if you prove to me you are a victim! But Lord de Winter makes cruel accusations against you. You are a Christian; you are my sister in religion. I feel myself drawn toward you—I, who have never loved anyone but my benefactor—I who have met with nothing but traitors and impious men. But you, madame, so beautiful in reality, you, so pure in appearance, must have committed great iniquities for Lord de Winter to pursue you thus.", "pos": 1082479}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "They have eyes, but they see not; ears have they, but they hear not.", "pos": 1082976}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "But, speak, then, speak!", "pos": 1083105}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Confide my shame to you, for often the crime of one becomes the shame of another—confide my shame to you, a man, and I a woman? Oh, never! never!—I could not!", "pos": 1083159}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "To me, to a brother?", "pos": 1083452}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Well, then. I confide in my brother; I will dare to—", "pos": 1083712}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "You have been here a very long time, John. Has this woman been relating her crimes to you? In that case I can comprehend the length of the conversation.", "pos": 1084307}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Ah, you fear your prisoner should escape! Well, ask your worthy jailer what favor I this instant solicited of him.", "pos": 1084585}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "You demanded a favor?", "pos": 1084714}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Yes, my Lord,", "pos": 1084768}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "And what favor, pray?", "pos": 1084817}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "A knife, which she would return to me through the grating of the door a minute after she had received it,", "pos": 1084863}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "There is someone, then, concealed here whose throat this amiable lady is desirous of cutting,", "pos": 1084987}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "There is myself,", "pos": 1085134}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "I have given you the choice between America and Tyburn. Choose Tyburn, madame. Believe me, the cord is more certain than the knife.", "pos": 1085169}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "You are right. I have often thought of it. And I will think of it again.", "pos": 1085445}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Mistrust yourself, John. I have placed reliance upon you, my friend. Beware! I have warned you! But be of good courage, my lad; in three days we shall be delivered from this creature, and where I shall send her she can harm nobody.", "pos": 1085667}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "You hear him! Well. I am not so far advanced as I believed. De Winter has changed his usual stupidity into a strange prudence. It is the desire of vengeance, and how desire molds a man! As to Felton, he hesitates. Ah, he is not a man like that cursed D’Artagnan. A Puritan only adores virgins, and he adores them by clasping his hands. A Musketeer loves women, and he loves them by clasping his arms round them. What do you want with me?", "pos": 1085912}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Listen. I have just sent away the sentinel that I might remain here without anybody knowing it, in order to speak to you without being overheard. The baron has just related a frightful story to me. Either you are a demon, or the baron—my benefactor, my father—is a monster. I have known you four days; I have loved him four years. I therefore may hesitate between you. Be not alarmed at what I say; I want to be convinced. Tonight, after twelve, I will come and see you, and you shall convince me.", "pos": 1087172}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "No, Felton, no, my brother, the sacrifice is too great, and I feel what it must cost you. No, I am lost; do not be lost with me. My death will be much more eloquent than my life, and the silence of the corpse will convince you much better than the words of the prisoner.", "pos": 1087795}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Be silent, madame, and do not speak to me thus; I came to entreat you to promise me upon your honor, to swear to me by what you hold most sacred, that you will make no attempt upon your life.", "pos": 1088080}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I will not promise, for no one has more respect for a promise or an oath than I have; and if I make a promise I must keep it.", "pos": 1088290}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Well, only promise till you have seen me again. If, when you have seen me again, you still persist—well, then you shall be free, and I myself will give you the weapon you desire.", "pos": 1088433}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Well, for you I will wait.", "pos": 1088629}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Swear.", "pos": 1088673}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I swear it, by our God. Are you satisfied?", "pos": 1088682}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Well, till tonight.", "pos": 1088727}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "My God, what a senseless fanatic! My God, it is I—I—and this fellow who will help me to avenge myself.", "pos": 1089345}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "you will not escape tonight!", "pos": 1094739}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Listen. On no pretense leave the door, for you know that last night my Lord punished a soldier for having quit his post for an instant, although I, during his absence, watched in his place. I recommend you therefore to keep the strictest watch. For my part I am going to pay a second visit to this woman, who I fear entertains sinister intentions upon her own life, and I have received orders to watch her. If I call, come. If anyone comes, call me. I promised to come, and I have come.", "pos": 1095340}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "You promised me something else.", "pos": 1096480}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "What, my God! You promised to bring a knife, and to leave it with me after our interview. Say no more of that, madame. There is no situation, however terrible it may be, which can authorize a creature of God to inflict death upon himself. I have reflected, and I cannot, must not be guilty of such a sin.", "pos": 1096514}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Ah, you have reflected! and I also have reflected.", "pos": 1096951}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Upon what?", "pos": 1097080}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "That I can have nothing to say to a man who does not keep his word.", "pos": 1097093}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Oh, my God!", "pos": 1097163}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "You may retire. I will not talk.", "pos": 1097194}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Here is the knife. Let me see it,", "pos": 1097244}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Upon my honor, I will instantly return it to you. You shall place it on that table, and you may remain between it and me. Well, this is fine and good steel. You are a faithful friend, Felton. Now, listen to me. Felton, imagine that your sister, the daughter of your father, speaks to you. While yet young, unfortunately handsome, I was dragged into a snare. I resisted. Ambushes and violences multiplied around me, but I resisted. The religion I serve, the God I adore, were blasphemed because I called upon that religion and that God, but still I resisted. Then outrages were heaped upon me, and as my soul was not subdued they wished to defile my body forever. Finally—", "pos": 1097459}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Finally, finally, what did they do?", "pos": 1098718}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "At length, one evening my enemy resolved to paralyze the resistance he could not conquer. One evening he mixed a powerful narcotic with my water. Scarcely had I finished my repast, when I felt myself sink by degrees into a strange torpor. Although I was without mistrust, a vague fear seized me, and I tried to struggle against sleepiness. I arose. I wished to run to the window and call for help, but my legs refused their office. It appeared as if the ceiling sank upon my head and crushed me with its weight. I stretched out my arms. I tried to speak. I could only utter inarticulate sounds, and irresistible faintness came over me. I supported myself by a chair, feeling that I was about to fall, but this support was soon insufficient on account of my weak arms. I fell upon one knee, then upon both. I tried to pray, but my tongue was frozen. God doubtless neither heard nor saw me, and I sank upon the floor a prey to a slumber which resembled death. Of all that passed in that sleep, or the time which glided away while it lasted, I have no remembrance. The only thing I recollect is that I awoke in bed in a round chamber, the furniture of which was sumptuous, and into which light only penetrated by an opening in the ceiling. No door gave entrance to the room. It might be called a magnificent prison. It was a long time before I was able to make out what place I was in, or to take account of the details I describe. My mind appeared to strive in vain to shake off the heavy darkness of the sleep from which I could not rouse myself. I had vague perceptions of space traversed, of the rolling of a carriage, of a horrible dream in which my strength had become exhausted; but all this was so dark and so indistinct in my mind that these events seemed to belong to another life than mine, and yet mixed with mine in fantastic duality. At times the state into which I had fallen appeared so strange that I believed myself dreaming. I arose trembling. My clothes were near me on a chair; I neither remembered having undressed myself nor going to bed. Then by degrees the reality broke upon me, full of chaste terrors. I was no longer in the house where I had dwelt. As well as I could judge by the light of the sun, the day was already two-thirds gone. It was the evening before when I had fallen asleep; my sleep, then, must have lasted twenty-four hours! What had taken place during this long sleep? I dressed myself as quickly as possible; my slow and stiff motions all attested that the effects of the narcotic were not yet entirely dissipated. The chamber was evidently furnished for the reception of a woman; and the most finished coquette could not have formed a wish, but on casting her eyes about the apartment, she would have found that wish accomplished. Certainly I was not the first captive that had been shut up in this splendid prison; but you may easily comprehend, Felton, that the more superb the prison, the greater was my terror. Yes, it was a prison, for I tried in vain to get out of it. I sounded all the walls, in the hopes of discovering a door, but everywhere the walls returned a full and flat sound. I made the tour of the room at least twenty times, in search of an outlet of some kind; but there was none. I sank exhausted with fatigue and terror into an armchair. Meantime, night came on rapidly, and with night my terrors increased. I did not know but I had better remain where I was seated. It appeared that I was surrounded with unknown dangers into which I was about to fall at every instant. Although I had eaten nothing since the evening before, my fears prevented my feeling hunger. No noise from without by which I could measure the time reached me; I only supposed it must be seven or eight o’clock in the evening, for it was in the month of October and it was quite dark. All at once the noise of a door, turning on its hinges, made me start. A globe of fire appeared above the glazed opening of the ceiling, casting a strong light into my chamber; and I perceived with terror that a man was standing within a few paces of me. A table, with two covers, bearing a supper ready prepared, stood, as if by magic, in the middle of the apartment. That man was he who had pursued me during a whole year, who had vowed my dishonor, and who, by the first words that issued from his mouth, gave me to understand he had accomplished it the preceding night.", "pos": 1098771}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Scoundrel!", "pos": 1103180}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, yes, scoundrel! Oh, yes, scoundrel! He believed, having triumphed over me in my sleep, that all was completed. He came, hoping that I would accept my shame, as my shame was consummated; he came to offer his fortune in exchange for my love. All that the heart of a woman could contain of haughty contempt and disdainful words, I poured out upon this man. Doubtless he was accustomed to such reproaches, for he listened to me calm and smiling, with his arms crossed over his breast. Then, when he thought I had said all, he advanced toward me; I sprang toward the table, I seized a knife, I placed it to my breast. Take one step more, and in addition to my dishonor, you shall have my death to reproach yourself with. There was, no doubt, in my look, my voice, my whole person, that sincerity of gesture, of attitude, of accent, which carries conviction to the most perverse minds, for he paused.", "pos": 1103210}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your death?", "pos": 1104255}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "oh, no, you are too charming a mistress to allow me to consent to lose you thus, after I have had the happiness to possess you only a single time. Adieu, my charmer; I will wait to pay you my next visit till you are in a better humor.", "pos": 1104278}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "At these words he blew a whistle; the globe of fire which lighted the room reascended and disappeared. I found myself again in complete darkness. The same noise of a door opening and shutting was repeated the instant afterward; the flaming globe descended afresh, and I was completely alone. This moment was frightful; if I had any doubts as to my misfortune, these doubts had vanished in an overwhelming reality. I was in the power of a man whom I not only detested, but despised—of a man capable of anything, and who had already given me a fatal proof of what he was able to do.", "pos": 1104515}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "But who, then, was this man?", "pos": 1105099}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I passed the night on a chair, starting at the least noise, for toward midnight the lamp went out, and I was again in darkness. But the night passed away without any fresh attempt on the part of my persecutor. Day came; the table had disappeared, only I had still the knife in my hand. This knife was my only hope. I was worn out with fatigue. Sleeplessness inflamed my eyes; I had not dared to sleep a single instant. The light of day reassured me; I went and threw myself on the bed, without parting with the emancipating knife, which I concealed under my pillow. When I awoke, a fresh meal was served. This time, in spite of my terrors, in spite of my agony, I began to feel a devouring hunger. It was forty-eight hours since I had taken any nourishment. I ate some bread and some fruit; then, remembering the narcotic mixed with the water I had drunk, I would not touch that which was placed on the table, but filled my glass at a marble fountain fixed in the wall over my dressing table. And yet, notwithstanding these precautions, I remained for some time in a terrible agitation of mind. But my fears were this time ill-founded; I passed the day without experiencing anything of the kind I dreaded. I took the precaution to half empty the carafe, in order that my suspicions might not be noticed. The evening came on, and with it darkness; but however profound was this darkness, my eyes began to accustom themselves to it. I saw, amid the shadows, the table sink through the floor; a quarter of an hour later it reappeared, bearing my supper. In an instant, thanks to the lamp, my chamber was once more lighted. I was determined to eat only such things as could not possibly have anything soporific introduced into them. Two eggs and some fruit composed my repast; then I drew another glass of water from my protecting fountain, and drank it. At the first swallow, it appeared to me not to have the same taste as in the morning. Suspicion instantly seized me. I paused, but I had already drunk half a glass. I threw the rest away with horror, and waited, with the dew of fear upon my brow. No doubt some invisible witness had seen me draw the water from that fountain, and had taken advantage of my confidence in it, the better to assure my ruin, so coolly resolved upon, so cruelly pursued. Half an hour had not passed when the same symptoms began to appear; but as I had only drunk half a glass of the water, I contended longer, and instead of falling entirely asleep, I sank into a state of drowsiness which left me a perception of what was passing around me, while depriving me of the strength either to defend myself or to fly. I dragged myself toward the bed, to seek the only defense I had left—my saving knife; but I could not reach the bolster. I sank on my knees, my hands clasped round one of the bedposts; then I felt that I was lost. And what was most frightful, was that at this time I retained a consciousness of the danger that threatened me; was that my soul, if I may say so, waked in my sleeping body; was that I saw, that I heard. It is true that all was like a dream, but it was not the less frightful. I saw the lamp ascend, and leave me in darkness; then I heard the well-known creaking of the door although I had heard that door open but twice. I felt instinctively that someone approached me; it is said that the doomed wretch in the deserts of America thus feels the approach of the serpent. I wished to make an effort; I attempted to cry out. By an incredible effort of will I even raised myself up, but only to sink down again immediately, and to fall into the arms of my persecutor.", "pos": 1105144}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Tell me who this man was!", "pos": 1108977}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Only this time it was no longer an inert body, without feeling, that the villain had to deal with. I have told you that without being able to regain the complete exercise of my faculties, I retained the sense of my danger. I struggled, then, with all my strength, and doubtless opposed, weak as I was, a long resistance, for I heard him cry out, ‘These miserable Puritans! I knew very well that they tired out their executioners, but I did not believe them so strong against their lovers!’ Alas! this desperate resistance could not last long. I felt my strength fail, and this time it was not my sleep that enabled the coward to prevail, but my swoon. My first impulse, on coming to myself, was to feel under my pillow for the knife I had not been able to reach; if it had not been useful for defense, it might at least serve for expiation. But on taking this knife, Felton, a terrible idea occurred to me. I have sworn to tell you all, and I will tell you all. I have promised you the truth; I will tell it, were it to destroy me.", "pos": 1109405}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "The idea came into your mind to avenge yourself on this man, did it not?", "pos": 1110625}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes. The idea was not that of a Christian, I knew; but without doubt, that eternal enemy of our souls, that lion roaring constantly around us, breathed it into my mind. In short, what shall I say to you, Felton? This idea occurred to me, and did not leave me; it is of this homicidal thought that I now bear the punishment.", "pos": 1110714}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Continue, continue! I am eager to see you attain your vengeance!", "pos": 1111127}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, I resolved that it should take place as soon as possible. I had no doubt he would return the following night. During the day I had nothing to fear. When the hour of breakfast came, therefore, I did not hesitate to eat and drink. I had determined to make believe sup, but to eat nothing. I was forced, then, to combat the fast of the evening with the nourishment of the morning. Only I concealed a glass of water, which remained after my breakfast, thirst having been the chief of my sufferings when I remained forty-eight hours without eating or drinking. The day passed away without having any other influence on me than to strengthen the resolution I had formed; only I took care that my face should not betray the thoughts of my heart, for I had no doubt I was watched. Several times, even, I felt a smile on my lips. Felton, I dare not tell you at what idea I smiled; you would hold me in horror—", "pos": 1111209}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Go on! go on! you see plainly that I listen, and that I am anxious to know the end.", "pos": 1112119}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Evening came; the ordinary events took place. During the darkness, as before, my supper was brought. Then the lamp was lighted, and I sat down to table. I only ate some fruit. I pretended to pour out water from the jug, but I only drank that which I had saved in my glass. The substitution was made so carefully that my spies, if I had any, could have no suspicion of it. After supper I exhibited the same marks of languor as on the preceding evening; but this time, as I yielded to fatigue, or as if I had become familiarized with danger, I dragged myself toward my bed, let my robe fall, and lay down. I found my knife where I had placed it, under my pillow, and while feigning to sleep, my hand grasped the handle of it convulsively. Two hours passed away without anything fresh happening. Oh, my God! who could have said so the evening before? I began to fear that he would not come. At length I saw the lamp rise softly, and disappear in the depths of the ceiling; my chamber was filled with darkness and obscurity, but I made a strong effort to penetrate this darkness and obscurity. Nearly ten minutes passed; I heard no other noise but the beating of my own heart. I implored heaven that he might come. At length I heard the well-known noise of the door, which opened and shut; I heard, notwithstanding the thickness of the carpet, a step which made the floor creak; I saw, notwithstanding the darkness, a shadow which approached my bed.", "pos": 1112220}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Haste! haste! do you not see that each of your words burns me like molten lead?", "pos": 1113674}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Then, then I collected all my strength; I recalled to my mind that the moment of vengeance, or rather, of justice, had struck. I looked upon myself as another Judith; I gathered myself up, my knife in my hand, and when I saw him near me, stretching out his arms to find his victim, then, with the last cry of agony and despair, I struck him in the middle of his breast. The miserable villain! He had foreseen all. His breast was covered with a coat-of-mail; the knife was bent against it.", "pos": 1113771}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, ah!", "pos": 1114283}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you want to take my life, do you, my pretty Puritan? But that’s more than dislike, that’s ingratitude! Come, come, calm yourself, my sweet girl! I thought you had softened. I am not one of those tyrants who detain women by force. You don’t love me. With my usual fatuity I doubted it; now I am convinced. Tomorrow you shall be free.", "pos": 1114380}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I had but one wish; that was that he should kill me. Beware! for my liberty is your dishonor.", "pos": 1114715}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Explain yourself, my pretty sibyl!", "pos": 1114824}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes; for as soon as I leave this place I will tell everything. I will proclaim the violence you have used toward me. I will describe my captivity. I will denounce this place of infamy. You are placed on high, my Lord, but tremble! Above you there is the king; above the king there is God! However perfect master he was over himself, my persecutor allowed a movement of anger to escape him. I could not see the expression of his countenance, but I felt the arm tremble upon which my hand was placed.", "pos": 1114862}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then you shall not leave this place,", "pos": 1115365}
{"speaker": "I", "text": "Very well, then the place of my punishment will be that of my tomb. I will die here, and you will see if a phantom that accuses is not more terrible than a living being that threatens!", "pos": 1115413}
{"speaker": "My Enemy", "text": "You shall have no weapon left in your power.", "pos": 1115612}
{"speaker": "I", "text": "There is a weapon which despair has placed within the reach of every creature who has the courage to use it. I will allow myself to die with hunger.", "pos": 1115660}
{"speaker": "The Wretch", "text": "Come, is not peace much better than such a war as that? I will restore you to liberty this moment; I will proclaim you a piece of immaculate virtue; I will name you the Lucretia of England.", "pos": 1115812}
{"speaker": "I", "text": "And I will say that you are the Sextus. I will denounce you before men, as I have denounced you before God; and if it be necessary that, like Lucretia, I should sign my accusation with my blood, I will sign it.", "pos": 1116024}
{"speaker": "My Enemy", "text": "Ah!", "pos": 1116238}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "that’s quite another thing. My faith! everything considered, you are very well off here. You shall want for nothing, and if you let yourself die of hunger that will be your own fault.", "pos": 1116278}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Well, well! Are we softened a little? Will we not pay for our liberty with a single promise of silence? Come, I am a good sort of a prince, and although I like not Puritans I do them justice; and it is the same with Puritanesses, when they are pretty. Come, take a little oath for me on the cross; I won’t ask anything more of you. On the cross, on the cross I swear that no promise, no menace, no force, no torture, shall close my mouth! On the cross I swear to denounce you everywhere as a murderer, as a thief of honor, as a base coward! On the cross I swear, if I ever leave this place, to call down vengeance upon you from the whole human race! Beware! I have an extraordinary means which I will not employ but in the last extremity to close your mouth, or at least to prevent anyone from believing a word you may utter. Listen! I give you the rest of tonight and all day tomorrow. Reflect: promise to be silent, and riches, consideration, even honor, shall surround you; threaten to speak, and I will condemn you to infamy. You? You? To interminable, ineffaceable infamy! You? Oh, leave me! Begone, if you do not desire to see me dash my head against that wall before your eyes! Very well, it is your own doing. Till tomorrow evening, then! Till tomorrow evening, then!", "pos": 1117081}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Well, well! Have you made your mind up to take the oath I requested of you? You have said Puritans have but one word. Mine you have heard, and that is to pursue you—on earth to the tribunal of men, in heaven to the tribunal of God. You persist, then? I swear it before the God who hears me. I will take the whole world as a witness of your crime, and that until I have found an avenger. You are a prostitute, and you shall undergo the punishment of prostitutes! Branded in the eyes of the world you invoke, try to prove to that world that you are neither guilty nor mad! Executioner, do your duty.", "pos": 1119914}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Here, here, Felton, behold the new martyrdom invented for a pure young girl, the victim of the brutality of a villain. Learn to know the heart of men, and henceforth make yourself less easily the instrument of their unjust vengeance.", "pos": 1121169}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Pardon! Pardon! Pardon for what? Pardon me for having joined with your persecutors. So beautiful! so young!", "pos": 1122514}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What, brother! must I name him again? Have you not yet divined who he is? What? he—again he—always he? What—the truly guilty? The truly guilty, is the ravager of England, the persecutor of true believers, the base ravisher of the honor of so many women—he who, to satisfy a caprice of his corrupt heart, is about to make England shed so much blood, who protects the Protestants today and will betray them tomorrow— Buckingham! It is, then, Buckingham! Buckingham, the executioner of this angelic creature! And thou hast not hurled thy thunder at him, my God! And thou hast left him noble, honored, powerful, for the ruin of us all! God abandons him who abandons himself. But he will draw upon his head the punishment reserved for the damned! He wills that human vengeance should precede celestial justice. Men fear him and spare him. I. I do not fear him, nor will I spare him. Listen, Felton, for by the side of base and contemptible men there are often found great and generous natures. I had an affianced husband, a man whom I loved, and who loved me—a heart like yours, Felton, a man like you. I went to him and told him all; he knew me, that man did, and did not doubt an instant. He was a nobleman, a man equal to Buckingham in every respect. He said nothing; he only girded on his sword, wrapped himself in his cloak, and went straight to Buckingham Palace. Yes, yes. I understand how he would act. But with such men it is not the sword that should be employed; it is the poniard. Hear me, this man has gone, and for the moment has consequently escaped my vengeance; but let us be united, as we were to have been, and then leave it to Lord de Winter to maintain his own honor and that of his wife. Lord de Winter! Yes. Lord de Winter; and now you can understand it all, can you not? Buckingham remained nearly a year absent. A week before his return Lord de Winter died, leaving me his sole heir. Whence came the blow? God who knows all, knows without doubt; but as for me, I accuse nobody. Oh, what an abyss; what an abyss! Lord de Winter died without revealing anything to his brother. The terrible secret was to be concealed till it burst, like a clap of thunder, over the head of the guilty. Your protector had seen with pain this marriage of his elder brother with a portionless girl. I was sensible that I could look for no support from a man disappointed in his hopes of an inheritance. I went to France, with a determination to remain there for the rest of my life. But all my fortune is in England. Communication being closed by the war, I was in want of everything. I was then obliged to come back again. Six days ago, I landed at Portsmouth. Well? Well; Buckingham heard by some means, no doubt, of my return. He spoke of me to Lord de Winter, already prejudiced against me, and told him that his sister-in-law was a prostitute, a branded woman. The noble and pure voice of my husband was no longer here to defend me. Lord de Winter believed all that was told him with so much the more ease that it was his interest to believe it. He caused me to be arrested, had me conducted hither, and placed me under your guard. You know the rest. The day after tomorrow he banishes me, he transports me; the day after tomorrow he exiles me among the infamous. Oh, the train is well laid; the plot is clever. My honor will not survive it! You see, then, Felton, I can do nothing but die. Felton, give me that knife! No, no. No, you shall live honored and pure; you shall live to triumph over your enemies. Oh, death, death! oh, death, rather than shame! Felton, my brother, my friend, I conjure you! No, no; you shall live and you shall be avenged. Felton, I bring misfortune to all who surround me! Felton, abandon me! Felton, let me die! Well, then, we will live and die together! Hark, we have been overheard! Someone is coming! All is over! We are lost! Then run to the door, and open it yourself.", "pos": 1123421}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "And by what right will you prevent me from dying? Ah, here we are, at the last act of the tragedy. You see, Felton, the drama has gone through all the phases I named; but be easy, no blood will flow. You are mistaken, my Lord, blood will flow; and may that blood fall back on those who cause it to flow!", "pos": 1129695}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Ay! I see; but you shall not kill me today. You have no longer a weapon; and besides, I am on my guard. You had begun to pervert my poor Felton. He was yielding to your infernal influence; but I will save him. He will never see you again; all is over. Get your clothes together. Tomorrow you will go. I had fixed the embarkation for the twenty-fourth; but I have reflected that the more promptly the affair takes place the more sure it will be. Tomorrow, by twelve o’clock, I shall have the order for your exile, signed, Buckingham. If you speak a single word to anyone before going aboard ship, my sergeant will blow your brains out. He has orders to do so. If when on the ship you speak a single word to anyone before the captain permits you, the captain will have you thrown into the sea. That is agreed upon. Au revoir, then; that is all I have to say today. Tomorrow I will see you again, to take my leave.", "pos": 1135113}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Felton! I am saved.", "pos": 1137077}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Yes, but silence, silence! I must have time to file through these bars. Only take care that I am not seen through the wicket.", "pos": 1137112}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, it is a proof that the Lord is on our side, Felton. They have closed up the grating with a board.", "pos": 1137255}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "That is well; God has made them senseless,", "pos": 1137377}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But what must I do?", "pos": 1137435}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Nothing, nothing, only shut the window. Go to bed, or at least lie down in your clothes. As soon as I have done I will knock on one of the panes of glass. But will you be able to follow me?", "pos": 1137471}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, yes!", "pos": 1137663}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Your wound?", "pos": 1137674}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Gives me pain, but will not prevent my walking.", "pos": 1137688}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Be ready, then, at the first signal.", "pos": 1137738}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Are you ready?", "pos": 1138415}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes. Must I take anything with me?", "pos": 1138446}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Money, if you have any.", "pos": 1138483}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes; fortunately they have left me all I had.", "pos": 1138509}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "So much the better, for I have expended all mine in chartering a vessel.", "pos": 1138557}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Here!", "pos": 1138632}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Now, will you come?", "pos": 1138758}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I am ready.", "pos": 1138791}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "I expected this,", "pos": 1139070}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "It’s nothing, it’s nothing! I will descend with my eyes shut.", "pos": 1139102}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Have you confidence in me?", "pos": 1139181}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "You ask that?", "pos": 1139223}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Put your two hands together. Cross them; that’s right!", "pos": 1139239}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What are you doing?", "pos": 1139399}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Pass your arms around my neck, and fear nothing.", "pos": 1139450}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But I shall make you lose your balance, and we shall both be dashed to pieces.", "pos": 1139501}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Don’t be afraid. I am a sailor.", "pos": 1139582}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What is the matter?", "pos": 1139902}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Silence. I hear footsteps.", "pos": 1139938}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "We are discovered!", "pos": 1139982}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "No, it is nothing.", "pos": 1140043}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But what, then, is the noise?", "pos": 1140079}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "That of the patrol going their rounds.", "pos": 1140111}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Where is their road?", "pos": 1140152}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Just under us.", "pos": 1140175}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "They will discover us!", "pos": 1140192}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "No, if it does not lighten.", "pos": 1140217}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But they will run against the bottom of the ladder.", "pos": 1140247}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Fortunately it is too short by six feet.", "pos": 1140301}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Here they are! My God!", "pos": 1140344}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Silence! Now, we are safe.", "pos": 1140369}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "To the sloop, and row quickly.", "pos": 1141748}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Where am I?", "pos": 1142456}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Saved!", "pos": 1142480}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, saved, saved! Yes, there is the sky; here is the sea! The air I breathe is the air of liberty! Ah, thanks, Felton, thanks! But what is the matter with my hands! it seems as if my wrists had been crushed in a vice.", "pos": 1142516}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Alas!", "pos": 1142858}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, it’s nothing, nothing! I remember now.", "pos": 1142947}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "It is there,", "pos": 1143064}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What vessel is that?", "pos": 1143215}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "The one I have hired for you.", "pos": 1143252}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Where will it take me?", "pos": 1143284}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Where you please, after you have put me on shore at Portsmouth.", "pos": 1143309}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What are you going to do at Portsmouth?", "pos": 1143375}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Accomplish the orders of Lord de Winter,", "pos": 1143431}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What orders?", "pos": 1143508}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "You do not understand?", "pos": 1143537}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "No; explain yourself, I beg.", "pos": 1143576}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "As he mistrusted me, he determined to guard you himself, and sent me in his place to get Buckingham to sign the order for your transportation.", "pos": 1143607}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But if he mistrusted you, how could he confide such an order to you?", "pos": 1143752}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "How could I know what I was the bearer of?", "pos": 1143823}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "That’s true! And you are going to Portsmouth?", "pos": 1143868}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "I have no time to lose. Tomorrow is the twenty-third, and Buckingham sets sail tomorrow with his fleet.", "pos": 1143916}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "He sets sail tomorrow! Where for?", "pos": 1144022}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "For La Rochelle.", "pos": 1144058}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "He need not sail!", "pos": 1144077}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Be satisfied, he will not sail.", "pos": 1144150}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Felton, you are as great as Judas Maccabeus! If you die, I will die with you; that is all I can say to you.", "pos": 1144346}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Silence! we are here. Captain, this is the person of whom I spoke to you, and whom you must convey safe and sound to France.", "pos": 1144469}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "For a thousand pistoles,", "pos": 1144834}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "I have paid you five hundred of them.", "pos": 1144879}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "That’s correct,", "pos": 1144919}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "And here are the other five hundred,", "pos": 1144955}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "No. I make but one bargain; and I have agreed with this young man that the other five hundred shall not be due to me till we arrive at Boulogne.", "pos": 1145049}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "And shall we arrive there?", "pos": 1145216}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "Safe and sound, as true as my name’s Jack Butler.", "pos": 1145245}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Well, if you keep your word, instead of five hundred, I will give you a thousand pistoles.", "pos": 1145297}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "Hurrah for you, then, my beautiful lady, and may God often send me such passengers as your Ladyship!", "pos": 1145405}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Meanwhile, convey me to the little bay of—; you know it was agreed you should put in there.", "pos": 1145529}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "A pressing message from Lord de Winter.", "pos": 1149535}
{"speaker": "Patrick", "text": "Lieutenant Felton, from Lord de Winter,", "pos": 1150805}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "From Lord de Winter! let him come in. Why didn’t the baron come himself? I expected him this morning.", "pos": 1150861}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "He desired me to tell your Grace, that he very much regretted not having that honor, but that he was prevented by the guard he is obliged to keep at the castle.", "pos": 1151185}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Yes, I know that, he has a prisoner.", "pos": 1151366}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "It is of that prisoner that I wish to speak to your Grace,", "pos": 1151424}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Well, then, speak!", "pos": 1151501}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "That which I have to say of her can only be heard by yourself, my Lord!", "pos": 1151522}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Leave us, Patrick, but remain within sound of the bell. I shall call you presently. We are alone, sir, speak!", "pos": 1151596}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "My Lord, the Baron de Winter wrote to you the other day to request you to sign an order of embarkation relative to a young woman named Charlotte Backson.", "pos": 1151766}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Yes, sir; and I answered him, to bring or send me that order and I would sign it.", "pos": 1151937}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Here it is, my Lord.", "pos": 1152021}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Give it to me,", "pos": 1152044}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Pardon, my Lord, but does your Grace know that the name of Charlotte Backson is not the true name of this young woman?", "pos": 1152273}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Yes, sir, I know it,", "pos": 1152428}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Then your Grace knows her real name?", "pos": 1152499}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "I know it", "pos": 1152569}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "And knowing that real name, my Lord, will you sign it all the same?", "pos": 1152641}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Doubtless, and rather twice than once.", "pos": 1152729}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "I cannot believe, that your Grace knows that it is to Milady de Winter this relates.", "pos": 1152789}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "I know it perfectly, although I am astonished that you know it.", "pos": 1152941}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "And will your Grace sign that order without remorse?", "pos": 1153007}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Do you know, sir, that you are asking me very strange questions, and that I am very foolish to answer them?", "pos": 1153108}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Reply to them, my Lord, the circumstances are more serious than you perhaps believe.", "pos": 1153218}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Without remorse. The baron knows, as well as myself, that Milady de Winter is a very guilty woman, and it is treating her very favorably to commute her punishment to transportation.", "pos": 1153434}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "You will not sign that order, my Lord!", "pos": 1153664}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "I will not sign this order! And why not?", "pos": 1153749}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Because you will look into yourself, and you will do justice to the lady.", "pos": 1153792}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "I should do her justice by sending her to Tyburn. This lady is infamous.", "pos": 1153868}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "My Lord, Milady de Winter is an angel; you know that she is, and I demand her liberty of you.", "pos": 1153962}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Bah! Are you mad, to talk to me thus?", "pos": 1154058}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "My Lord, excuse me! I speak as I can; I restrain myself. But, my Lord, think of what you’re about to do, and beware of going too far!", "pos": 1154115}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "What do you say? God pardon me! I really think he threatens me!", "pos": 1154251}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "No, my Lord, I still plead. And I say to you: one drop of water suffices to make the full vase overflow; one slight fault may draw down punishment upon the head spared, despite many crimes.", "pos": 1154337}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Mr. Felton, you will withdraw, and place yourself at once under arrest.", "pos": 1154529}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "You will hear me to the end, my Lord. You have seduced this young girl; you have outraged, defiled her. Repair your crimes toward her; let her go free, and I will exact nothing else from you.", "pos": 1154622}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "You will exact!", "pos": 1154816}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "My Lord, my Lord, beware! All England is tired of your iniquities; my Lord, you have abused the royal power, which you have almost usurped; my Lord, you are held in horror by God and men. God will punish you hereafter, but I will punish you here!", "pos": 1154962}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Ah, this is too much!", "pos": 1155266}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "I ask it humbly of you, my Lord, sign the order for the liberation of Milady de Winter. Remember that she is a woman whom you have dishonored.", "pos": 1155366}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Withdraw, sir, or I will call my attendant, and have you placed in irons.", "pos": 1155522}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "You shall not call. Beware, my Lord, you are in the hands of God!", "pos": 1155617}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "In the hands of the devil, you mean!", "pos": 1155788}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Sign, my Lord; sign the liberation of Milady de Winter,", "pos": 1155935}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "By force? You are joking! Holloa, Patrick!", "pos": 1156039}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Sign, my Lord!", "pos": 1156084}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Never.", "pos": 1156101}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "Never?", "pos": 1156110}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Help!", "pos": 1156119}
{"speaker": "Patrick", "text": "A letter from France, my Lord.", "pos": 1156399}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "From France! Ah, traitor, you have killed me!", "pos": 1156432}
{"speaker": "Patrick", "text": "Murder!", "pos": 1156674}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "I knew it! I guessed it! But too late by a minute, unfortunate, unfortunate that I am!", "pos": 1157119}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Laporte. Laporte, do you come from her?", "pos": 1157633}
{"speaker": "Laporte", "text": "Yes, monseigneur, but too late, perhaps.", "pos": 1157710}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Silence, Laporte, you may be overheard. Patrick, let no one enter. Oh, I cannot tell what she says to me! My God, I am dying!", "pos": 1157809}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Too late by a minute! too late by a minute! Oh, my God, my God! what a misfortune!", "pos": 1158382}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Gentlemen, leave me alone with Patrick and Laporte—ah, is that you, De Winter? You sent me a strange madman this morning! See the state in which he has put me.", "pos": 1159189}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Oh, my Lord! I shall never console myself.", "pos": 1159362}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "And you would be quite wrong, my dear De Winter. I do not know the man who deserves being regretted during the whole life of another man; but leave us, I pray you.", "pos": 1159426}
{"speaker": "Laporte", "text": "You will live, my Lord, you will live!", "pos": 1159795}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "What has she written to me? what has she written to me? Read me her letter.", "pos": 1159923}
{"speaker": "Laporte", "text": "Oh, my Lord!", "pos": 1160102}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Obey, Laporte, do you not see I have no time to lose? Read! read! I cannot see. Read, then! For soon, perhaps, I shall not hear, and I shall die without knowing what she has written to me.", "pos": 1160131}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "MY LORD, By that which, since I have known you, have suffered by you and for you, I conjure you, if you have any care for my repose, to countermand those great armaments which you are preparing against France, to put an end to a war of which it is publicly said religion is the ostensible cause, and of which, it is generally whispered, your love for me is the concealed cause. This war may not only bring great catastrophes upon England and France, but misfortune upon you, my Lord, for which I should never console myself. Be careful of your life, which is menaced, and which will be dear to me from the moment I am not obliged to see an enemy in you. Your affectionate ANNE", "pos": 1160508}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Have you nothing else to say to me by the living voice, Laporte?", "pos": 1161360}
{"speaker": "Laporte", "text": "The queen charged me to tell you to watch over yourself, for she had advice that your assassination would be attempted.", "pos": 1161427}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "And is that all—is that all?", "pos": 1161549}
{"speaker": "Laporte", "text": "She likewise charged me to tell you that she still loved you.", "pos": 1161613}
{"speaker": "Buckingham", "text": "Ah. God be praised! My death, then, will not be to her as the death of a stranger! Patrick, bring me the casket in which the diamond studs were kept. Now the scent bag of white satin, on which her cipher is embroidered in pearls. Here, Laporte, these are the only tokens I ever received from her—this silver casket and these two letters. You will restore them to her Majesty; and as a last memorial you will add— And you will add to them this knife,", "pos": 1161677}
{"speaker": "Surgeon", "text": "All is useless, he is dead.", "pos": 1163292}
{"speaker": "Patrick", "text": "Dead, dead!", "pos": 1163333}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Wretch! what have you done?", "pos": 1163628}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "I have avenged myself!", "pos": 1163808}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Avenged yourself. Rather say that you have served as an instrument to that accursed woman; but I swear to you that this crime shall be her last.", "pos": 1163842}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "I don’t know what you mean, and I am ignorant of whom you are speaking, my Lord. I killed the Duke of Buckingham because he twice refused you yourself to appoint me captain; I have punished him for his injustice, that is all.", "pos": 1164007}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "One last favor, my Lord!", "pos": 1165043}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "What?", "pos": 1165092}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "What o’clock is it?", "pos": 1165120}
{"speaker": "Baron", "text": "It wants ten minutes to nine,", "pos": 1165172}
{"speaker": "Felton", "text": "God has so willed it!", "pos": 1165455}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Be punished alone, for the first, miserable man! but I swear to you by the memory of my brother whom I have loved so much that your accomplice is not saved.", "pos": 1165779}
{"speaker": "Marie Michon", "text": "MY DEAR COUSIN, Here is the authorization from my sister to withdraw our little servant from the convent of Béthune, the air of which you think is bad for her. My sister sends you this authorization with great pleasure, for she is very partial to the little girl, to whom she intends to be more serviceable hereafter. I salute you,", "pos": 1169083}
{"speaker": "Anne of Austria", "text": "The superior of the convent of Béthune will place in the hands of the person who shall present this note to her the novice who entered the convent upon my recommendation and under my patronage.", "pos": 1169525}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "A very great lady has told me that this means that somebody is talking of you somewhere.", "pos": 1171684}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Good Lord!", "pos": 1172423}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "MONSEIGNEUR, Let your Eminence be reassured. His Grace the Duke of Buckingham will not set out for France. I report to the convent of the Carmelites at Béthune, where I will await your orders.", "pos": 1178150}
{"speaker": "Abbess", "text": "I am very ignorant of these matters, but however distant from the court we may be, however remote from the interests of the world we may be placed, we have very sad examples of what you have related. And one of our boarders has suffered much from the vengeance and persecution of the cardinal!", "pos": 1182237}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "One of your boarders? oh, my God! Poor woman! I pity her, then.", "pos": 1182563}
{"speaker": "Abbess", "text": "Monsieur Cardinal has perhaps plausible motives for acting thus; and though she has the look of an angel, we must not always judge people by the appearance.", "pos": 1182798}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Good! who knows! I am about, perhaps, to discover something here; I am in the vein. Alas, I know it is so. It is said that we must not trust to the face; but in what, then, shall we place confidence, if not in the most beautiful work of the Lord? As for me, I shall be deceived all my life perhaps, but I shall always have faith in a person whose countenance inspires me with sympathy.", "pos": 1182983}
{"speaker": "Abbess", "text": "You would, then, be tempted to believe that this young person is innocent?", "pos": 1183455}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "The cardinal pursues not only crimes; there are certain virtues which he pursues more severely than certain offenses.", "pos": 1183552}
{"speaker": "Abbess", "text": "Permit me, madame, to express my surprise.", "pos": 1183684}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "At what?", "pos": 1183746}
{"speaker": "Abbess", "text": "At the language you use.", "pos": 1183801}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What do you find so astonishing in that language? And yet I speak ill of him. Is an order for me to confine myself to a sort of prison, from which he will release me by one of his satellites. Whither should I go? Do you believe there is a spot on the earth which the cardinal cannot reach if he takes the trouble to stretch forth his hand? If I were a man, that would barely be possible; but what can a woman do? This young boarder of yours, has she tried to fly?", "pos": 1183828}
{"speaker": "Abbess", "text": "No, that is true; but she—that is another thing; I believe she is detained in France by some love affair.", "pos": 1184646}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Ah, if she loves she is not altogether wretched.", "pos": 1184782}
{"speaker": "Abbess", "text": "Then, I behold another poor victim?", "pos": 1184896}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Alas, yes.", "pos": 1184934}
{"speaker": "Abbess", "text": "You are not an enemy of our holy faith?", "pos": 1185069}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Who—I? I a Protestant? Oh, no! I call to witness the God who hears us, that on the contrary I am a fervent Catholic!", "pos": 1185151}
{"speaker": "Abbess", "text": "Then, madame, be reassured; the house in which you are shall not be a very hard prison, and we will do all in our power to make you cherish your captivity. You will find here, moreover, the young woman of whom I spoke, who is persecuted, no doubt, in consequence of some court intrigue. She is amiable and well-behaved.", "pos": 1185298}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What is her name?", "pos": 1185620}
{"speaker": "Abbess", "text": "She was sent to me by someone of high rank, under the name of Kitty. I have not tried to discover her other name.", "pos": 1185640}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Kitty! What? Are you sure?", "pos": 1185756}
{"speaker": "Abbess", "text": "That she is called so? Yes, madame. Do you know her?", "pos": 1185801}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "And when can I see this young lady, for whom I already feel so great a sympathy?", "pos": 1186246}
{"speaker": "Abbess", "text": "Why, this evening, today even. But you have been traveling these four days, as you told me yourself. This morning you rose at five o’clock; you must stand in need of repose. Go to bed and sleep; at dinnertime we will rouse you.", "pos": 1186342}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "How, madame. I have scarcely seen you, and you already wish to deprive me of your company, upon which I had counted a little, I must confess, for the time I have to pass here?", "pos": 1188940}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "No, madame, only I thought I had chosen my time ill; you were asleep, you are fatigued.", "pos": 1189130}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Well, what can those who sleep wish for—a happy awakening? This awakening you have given me; allow me, then, to enjoy it at my ease,", "pos": 1189242}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "How unfortunate I am!", "pos": 1189483}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I have been here six months without the shadow of recreation. You arrive, and your presence was likely to afford me delightful company; yet I expect, in all probability, to quit the convent at any moment. How, you are going soon?", "pos": 1189517}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "At least I hope so,", "pos": 1189765}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I think I learned you had suffered persecutions from the cardinal, that would have been another motive for sympathy between us.", "pos": 1189868}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "What I have heard, then, from our good mother is true; you have likewise been a victim of that wicked priest.", "pos": 1190018}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Hush! let us not, even here, speak thus of him. All my misfortunes arise from my having said nearly what you have said before a woman whom I thought my friend, and who betrayed me. Are you also the victim of a treachery?", "pos": 1190130}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "No, but of my devotion—of a devotion to a woman I loved, for whom I would have laid down my life, for whom I would give it still.", "pos": 1190368}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "And who has abandoned you—is that it?", "pos": 1190519}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "I have been sufficiently unjust to believe so; but during the last two or three days I have obtained proof to the contrary, for which I thank God—for it would have cost me very dear to think she had forgotten me. But you, madame, you appear to be free, and if you were inclined to fly it only rests with yourself to do so.", "pos": 1190559}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Whither would you have me go, without friends, without money, in a part of France with which I am unacquainted, and where I have never been before?", "pos": 1190908}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "Oh, as to friends, you would have them wherever you want, you appear so good and are so beautiful!", "pos": 1191058}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "That does not prevent, my being alone or being persecuted.", "pos": 1191179}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "Hear me, we must trust in heaven. There always comes a moment when the good you have done pleads your cause before God; and see, perhaps it is a happiness for you, humble and powerless as I am, that you have met with me, for if I leave this place, well—I have powerful friends, who, after having exerted themselves on my account, may also exert themselves for you.", "pos": 1191318}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, when I said I was alone, it is not for want of friends in high places; but these friends themselves tremble before the cardinal. The queen herself does not dare to oppose the terrible minister. I have proof that her Majesty, notwithstanding her excellent heart, has more than once been obliged to abandon to the anger of his Eminence persons who had served her.", "pos": 1191704}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "Trust me, madame; the queen may appear to have abandoned those persons, but we must not put faith in appearances. The more they are persecuted, the more she thinks of them; and often, when they least expect it, they have proof of a kind remembrance.", "pos": 1192141}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Alas! I believe so; the queen is so good!", "pos": 1192393}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "Oh, you know her, then, that lovely and noble queen, that you speak of her thus!", "pos": 1192452}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "That is to say, that I have not the honor of knowing her personally; but I know a great number of her most intimate friends. I am acquainted with Monsieur de Putange; I met Monsieur Dujart in England; I know Monsieur de Tréville.", "pos": 1192570}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "Monsieur de Tréville! do you know Monsieur de Tréville?", "pos": 1192850}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes, perfectly well—intimately even.", "pos": 1192932}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "The captain of the king’s Musketeers?", "pos": 1192971}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "The captain of the king’s Musketeers.", "pos": 1193011}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "Why, then, only see! we shall soon be well acquainted, almost friends. If you know Monsieur de Tréville, you must have visited him?", "pos": 1193051}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Often! All those he is in the habit of receiving!", "pos": 1193205}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "Name a few of those whom you know, and you will see if they are my friends.", "pos": 1193520}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Well! I know Monsieur de Louvigny, Monsieur de Courtivron, Monsieur de Ferussac.", "pos": 1193598}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "Don’t you know a gentleman named Athos? have I said anything that has wounded you?", "pos": 1193774}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "No; but the name struck me, because I also have known that gentleman, and it appeared strange to me to meet with a person who appears to know him well.", "pos": 1194104}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "Oh, yes, very well; not only him, but some of his friends, Messieurs Porthos and Aramis!", "pos": 1194258}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Indeed! you know them likewise? I know them. That is to say. I am not really very intimate with any of them. I know them from having heard one of their friends, Monsieur d’Artagnan, say a great deal about them.", "pos": 1194349}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "You know Monsieur d’Artagnan! Pardon me, madame; you know him by what title?", "pos": 1194780}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Why, why, by the title of friend.", "pos": 1195025}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "You deceive me, madame, you have been his mistress!", "pos": 1195092}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "It is you who have been his mistress, madame!", "pos": 1195165}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "I?", "pos": 1195240}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes, you! I know you now. You are Madame Bonacieux!", "pos": 1195262}
{"speaker": "novice", "text": "Well, yes, madame. Are we rivals?", "pos": 1195424}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Speak, madame! Have you been, or are you, his mistress?", "pos": 1195649}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, no! Never, never!", "pos": 1195799}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "I believe you, but why, then, did you cry out so?", "pos": 1195891}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Do you not understand? Can you not understand that Monsieur d’Artagnan, being my friend, might take me into his confidence? Do you not perceive that I know all—your abduction from the little house at St. Germain, his despair, that of his friends, and their useless inquiries up to this moment? How could I help being astonished when, without having the least expectation of such a thing, I meet you face to face—you, of whom we have so often spoken together, you whom he loves with all his soul, you whom he had taught me to love before I had seen you! Ah, dear Constance, I have found you, then; I see you at last!", "pos": 1195966}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, pardon me, pardon me! Pardon me, I love him so much!", "pos": 1196934}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, you beautiful, good little creature! How delighted I am to have found you! Let me look at you! Oh, yes it is you indeed! From what he has told me, I know you now. I recognize you perfectly.", "pos": 1197285}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Then you know what I have suffered, since he has told you what he has suffered; but to suffer for him is happiness.", "pos": 1197766}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes, that is happiness.", "pos": 1197936}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "And then, my punishment is drawing to a close. Tomorrow, this evening, perhaps, I shall see him again; and then the past will no longer exist.", "pos": 1197998}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "This evening? What do you mean? Do you expect news from him?", "pos": 1198171}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "I expect himself.", "pos": 1198290}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Himself? D’Artagnan here?", "pos": 1198310}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Himself!", "pos": 1198338}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "But that’s impossible! He is at the siege of La Rochelle with the cardinal. He will not return till after the taking of the city.", "pos": 1198349}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Ah, you fancy so! But is there anything impossible for my D’Artagnan, the noble and loyal gentleman?", "pos": 1198481}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, I cannot believe you!", "pos": 1198584}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Well, read, then!", "pos": 1198612}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes, yes, the letter is precise. Do you know what that warning was?", "pos": 1199306}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "No, I only suspect he has warned the queen against some fresh machinations of the cardinal.", "pos": 1199391}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes, that’s it, no doubt!", "pos": 1199485}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "can it be he?", "pos": 1199718}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "He, he! can it be he?", "pos": 1199884}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Alas, no! it is a man I don’t know, although he seems to be coming here. Yes, he checks his pace; he stops at the gate; he rings.", "pos": 1199969}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "You are sure it is not he?", "pos": 1200150}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, yes, very sure!", "pos": 1200189}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Perhaps you did not see well.", "pos": 1200212}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, if I were to see the plume of his hat, the end of his cloak, I should know him!", "pos": 1200244}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes, he has entered. It is for you or me! My God, how agitated you seem! Yes, I admit it. I have not your confidence; I fear the cardinal.", "pos": 1200372}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Hush! somebody is coming.", "pos": 1200519}
{"speaker": "superior", "text": "Did you come from Boulogne?", "pos": 1200625}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes. Who wants me?", "pos": 1200679}
{"speaker": "superior", "text": "A man who will not tell his name, but who comes from the cardinal.", "pos": 1200754}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "And who wishes to speak with me?", "pos": 1200823}
{"speaker": "superior", "text": "Who wishes to speak to a lady recently come from Boulogne.", "pos": 1200858}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Then let him come in, if you please.", "pos": 1200919}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, my God, my God! Can it be bad news?", "pos": 1200958}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I fear it.", "pos": 1201024}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "I will leave you with this stranger; but as soon as he is gone, if you will permit me, I will return.", "pos": 1201037}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Permit you? I beseech you. it is you! Yes, it is I. From La Rochelle; and you? From England. Dead or desperately wounded, as I left without having been able to hear anything of him. A fanatic has just assassinated him.", "pos": 1201141}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "Ah, this is a fortunate chance—one that will delight his Eminence! Have you informed him of it?", "pos": 1201818}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I wrote to him from Boulogne. But what brings you here?", "pos": 1201948}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "His Eminence was uneasy, and sent me to find you.", "pos": 1202006}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I only arrived yesterday. And what have you been doing since yesterday? I have not lost my time.", "pos": 1202058}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "Oh, I don’t doubt that.", "pos": 1202161}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Do you know whom I have encountered here?", "pos": 1202187}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "Guess.", "pos": 1202237}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "That young woman whom the queen took out of prison. Yes; Madame Bonacieux, with whose retreat the cardinal was unacquainted.", "pos": 1202259}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "here is a chance which may pair off with the other! Monsieur Cardinal is indeed a privileged man!", "pos": 1202460}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Imagine my astonishment, when I found myself face to face with this woman!", "pos": 1202560}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "Does she know you?", "pos": 1202657}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "No.", "pos": 1202678}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "Then she looks upon you as a stranger?", "pos": 1202684}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I am her best friend.", "pos": 1202740}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "Upon my honor, it takes you, my dear countess, to perform such miracles!", "pos": 1202764}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "And it is well I can, Chevalier, for do you know what is going on here?", "pos": 1202857}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "No.", "pos": 1202946}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "They will come for her tomorrow or the day after, with an order from the queen.", "pos": 1202952}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "Indeed! And who?", "pos": 1203034}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "D’Artagnan and his friends.", "pos": 1203053}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "Indeed, they will go so far that we shall be obliged to send them to the Bastille.", "pos": 1203083}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Why is it not done already?", "pos": 1203168}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "What would you? The cardinal has a weakness for these men which I cannot comprehend.", "pos": 1203198}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Indeed!", "pos": 1203285}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1203295}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Well, then, tell him this, Rochefort. Tell him that our conversation at the inn of the Red Dovecot was overheard by these four men; tell him that after his departure one of them came up to me and took from me by violence the safe-conduct which he had given me; tell him they warned Lord de Winter of my journey to England; that this time they nearly foiled my mission as they foiled the affair of the studs; tell him that among these four men two only are to be feared—D’Artagnan and Athos; tell him that the third, Aramis, is the lover of Madame de Chevreuse—he may be left alone, we know his secret, and it may be useful; as to the fourth, Porthos, he is a fool, a simpleton, a blustering booby, not worth troubling himself about. But these four men must be now at the siege of La Rochelle? I thought so, too; but a letter which Madame Bonacieux has received from Madame the Constable, and which she has had the imprudence to show me, leads me to believe that these four men, on the contrary, are on the road hither to take her away.", "pos": 1203302}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The devil! What’s to be done?", "pos": 1204343}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What did the cardinal say about me?", "pos": 1204375}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was to take your dispatches, written or verbal, and return by post; and when he shall know what you have done, he will advise what you have to do.", "pos": 1204413}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I must, then, remain here?", "pos": 1204564}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Here, or in the neighborhood.", "pos": 1204593}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You cannot take me with you?", "pos": 1204625}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, the order is imperative. Near the camp you might be recognized; and your presence, you must be aware, would compromise the cardinal.", "pos": 1204656}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I must wait here, or in the neighborhood?", "pos": 1204795}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Only tell me beforehand where you will wait for intelligence from the cardinal; let me know always where to find you.", "pos": 1204844}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Observe, it is probable that I may not be able to remain here.", "pos": 1204964}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why?", "pos": 1205029}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You forget that my enemies may arrive at any minute.", "pos": 1205036}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s true; but is this little woman, then, to escape his Eminence?", "pos": 1205091}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Bah!", "pos": 1205162}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you forget that I am her best friend.", "pos": 1205226}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, that’s true! I may then tell the cardinal, with respect to this little woman—", "pos": 1205266}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That he may be at ease.", "pos": 1205350}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is that all?", "pos": 1205376}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He will know what that means.", "pos": 1205391}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He will guess, at least. Now, then, what had I better do?", "pos": 1205423}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Return instantly. It appears to me that the news you bear is worth the trouble of a little diligence.", "pos": 1205483}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My chaise broke down coming into Lilliers.", "pos": 1205587}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Capital!", "pos": 1205632}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What, capital?", "pos": 1205643}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, I want your chaise.", "pos": 1205660}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And how shall I travel, then?", "pos": 1205687}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On horseback.", "pos": 1205719}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You talk very comfortably,—a hundred and eighty leagues!", "pos": 1205735}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What’s that?", "pos": 1205794}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "One can do it! Afterward?", "pos": 1205809}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Afterward? Why, in passing through Lilliers you will send me your chaise, with an order to your servant to place himself at my disposal.", "pos": 1205837}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well.", "pos": 1205976}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have, no doubt, some order from the cardinal about you?", "pos": 1205984}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have my full power.", "pos": 1206046}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Show it to the abbess, and tell her that someone will come and fetch me, either today or tomorrow, and that I am to follow the person who presents himself in your name.", "pos": 1206070}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very well.", "pos": 1206241}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Don’t forget to treat me harshly in speaking of me to the abbess.", "pos": 1206254}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To what purpose?", "pos": 1206322}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am a victim of the cardinal. It is necessary to inspire confidence in that poor little Madame Bonacieux.", "pos": 1206341}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s true. Now, will you make me a report of all that has happened?", "pos": 1206450}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why, I have related the events to you. You have a good memory; repeat what I have told you. A paper may be lost.", "pos": 1206522}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are right; only let me know where to find you that I may not run needlessly about the neighborhood.", "pos": 1206637}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s correct; wait!", "pos": 1206743}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you want a map?", "pos": 1206767}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, I know this country marvelously!", "pos": 1206788}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You? When were you here?", "pos": 1206827}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was brought up here.", "pos": 1206854}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Truly?", "pos": 1206879}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is worth something, you see, to have been brought up somewhere.", "pos": 1206888}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You will wait for me, then?", "pos": 1206957}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let me reflect a little! Ay, that will do—at Armentières.", "pos": 1206987}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where is that Armentières?", "pos": 1207047}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A little town on the Lys; I shall only have to cross the river, and I shall be in a foreign country.", "pos": 1207076}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Capital! but it is understood you will only cross the river in case of danger.", "pos": 1207179}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is well understood.", "pos": 1207260}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And in that case, how shall I know where you are?", "pos": 1207287}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You do not want your lackey?", "pos": 1207339}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is he a sure man?", "pos": 1207370}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To the proof.", "pos": 1207390}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Give him to me. Nobody knows him. I will leave him at the place I quit, and he will conduct you to me.", "pos": 1207406}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And you say you will wait for me at Armentières?", "pos": 1207511}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At Armentières.", "pos": 1207562}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Write that name on a bit of paper, lest I should forget it. There is nothing compromising in the name of a town. Is it not so?", "pos": 1207580}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Eh, who knows? Never mind,", "pos": 1207709}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will compromise myself.", "pos": 1207794}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well,", "pos": 1207822}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "said Rochefort, taking the paper from Milady, folding it, and placing it in the lining of his hat, “you may be easy. I will do as children do, for fear of losing the paper—repeat the name along the route. Now, is that all?”", "pos": 1207829}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I believe so.", "pos": 1208054}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let us see: Buckingham dead or grievously wounded; your conversation with the cardinal overheard by the four Musketeers; Lord de Winter warned of your arrival at Portsmouth; D’Artagnan and Athos to the Bastille; Aramis the lover of Madame de Chevreuse; Porthos an ass; Madame Bonacieux found again; to send you the chaise as soon as possible; to place my lackey at your disposal; to make you out a victim of the cardinal in order that the abbess may entertain no suspicion; Armentières, on the banks of the Lys. Is that all, then?", "pos": 1208070}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In truth, my dear Chevalier, you are a miracle of memory. A propos, add one thing—", "pos": 1208603}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What?", "pos": 1208688}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I saw some very pretty woods which almost touch the convent garden. Say that I am permitted to walk in those woods. Who knows? Perhaps I shall stand in need of a back door for retreat.", "pos": 1208696}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You think of everything.", "pos": 1208883}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And you forget one thing.", "pos": 1208910}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What?", "pos": 1208938}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To ask me if I want money.", "pos": 1208946}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s true. How much do you want?", "pos": 1208975}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All you have in gold.", "pos": 1209012}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have five hundred pistoles, or thereabouts.", "pos": 1209036}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have as much. With a thousand pistoles one may face everything. Empty your pockets.", "pos": 1209084}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There.", "pos": 1209172}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Right. And you go—", "pos": 1209181}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In an hour—time to eat a morsel, during which I shall send for a post horse.", "pos": 1209202}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Capital! Adieu, Chevalier.", "pos": 1209281}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Adieu, Countess.", "pos": 1209310}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Commend me to the cardinal.", "pos": 1209329}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Commend me to Satan.", "pos": 1209359}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Well,", "pos": 1209851}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "what you dreaded has happened. This evening, or tomorrow, the cardinal will send someone to take you away.", "pos": 1209881}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Who told you that, my dear?", "pos": 1209990}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "I heard it from the mouth of the messenger himself.", "pos": 1210034}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Come and sit down close to me,", "pos": 1210088}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Here I am.", "pos": 1210134}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Wait till I assure myself that nobody hears us.", "pos": 1210147}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Why all these precautions?", "pos": 1210197}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "You shall know. Then, he has well played his part.", "pos": 1210226}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Who has?", "pos": 1210422}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "He who just now presented himself to the abbess as a messenger from the cardinal.", "pos": 1210433}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "It was, then, a part he was playing?", "pos": 1210517}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes, my child.", "pos": 1210556}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "That man, then, was not—", "pos": 1210573}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "That man, is my brother.", "pos": 1210600}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Your brother!", "pos": 1210662}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "No one must know this secret, my dear, but yourself. If you reveal it to anyone in the world, I shall be lost, and perhaps yourself likewise.", "pos": 1210700}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, my God!", "pos": 1210844}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Listen. This is what has happened: My brother, who was coming to my assistance to take me away by force if it were necessary, met with the emissary of the cardinal, who was coming in search of me. He followed him. At a solitary and retired part of the road he drew his sword, and required the messenger to deliver up to him the papers of which he was the bearer. The messenger resisted; my brother killed him.", "pos": 1210858}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh!", "pos": 1211270}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Remember, that was the only means. Then my brother determined to substitute cunning for force. He took the papers, and presented himself here as the emissary of the cardinal, and in an hour or two a carriage will come to take me away by the orders of his Eminence.", "pos": 1211309}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "I understand. It is your brother who sends this carriage.", "pos": 1211576}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Exactly; but that is not all. That letter you have received, and which you believe to be from Madame de Chevreuse—", "pos": 1211636}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Well?", "pos": 1211753}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "It is a forgery.", "pos": 1211761}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "How can that be?", "pos": 1211780}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes, a forgery; it is a snare to prevent your making any resistance when they come to fetch you.", "pos": 1211799}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "But it is D’Artagnan that will come.", "pos": 1211898}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Do not deceive yourself. D’Artagnan and his friends are detained at the siege of La Rochelle.", "pos": 1211937}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "How do you know that?", "pos": 1212033}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "My brother met some emissaries of the cardinal in the uniform of Musketeers. You would have been summoned to the gate; you would have believed yourself about to meet friends; you would have been abducted, and conducted back to Paris.", "pos": 1212057}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, my God! My senses fail me amid such a chaos of iniquities. I feel, if this continues. I shall go mad!", "pos": 1212293}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Stop—", "pos": 1212459}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "What?", "pos": 1212467}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I hear a horse’s steps; it is my brother setting off again. I should like to offer him a last salute. Come! Adieu, brother! The good George!", "pos": 1212475}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Dear lady, pardon me for interrupting you; but what do you advise me to do? Good heaven! You have more experience than I have. Speak; I will listen.", "pos": 1213081}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "In the first place, it is possible I may be deceived, and that D’Artagnan and his friends may really come to your assistance.", "pos": 1213232}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, that would be too much! so much happiness is not in store for me!", "pos": 1213375}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Then you comprehend it would be only a question of time, a sort of race, which should arrive first. If your friends are the more speedy, you are to be saved; if the satellites of the cardinal, you are lost.", "pos": 1213471}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, yes, yes; lost beyond redemption! What, then, to do? What to do?", "pos": 1213680}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "There would be a very simple means, very natural—", "pos": 1213751}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Tell me what!", "pos": 1213803}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "To wait, concealed in the neighborhood, and assure yourself who are the men who come to ask for you.", "pos": 1213819}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "But where can I wait?", "pos": 1213922}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, there is no difficulty in that. I shall stop and conceal myself a few leagues hence until my brother can rejoin me. Well, I take you with me; we conceal ourselves, and wait together.", "pos": 1213946}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "But I shall not be allowed to go; I am almost a prisoner.", "pos": 1214135}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "As they believe that I go in consequence of an order from the cardinal, no one will believe you anxious to follow me.", "pos": 1214195}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Well?", "pos": 1214315}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Well! The carriage is at the door; you bid me adieu; you mount the step to embrace me a last time; my brother’s servant, who comes to fetch me, is told how to proceed; he makes a sign to the postillion, and we set off at a gallop.", "pos": 1214323}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "But D’Artagnan! D’Artagnan! if he comes?", "pos": 1214556}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Shall we not know it?", "pos": 1214599}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "How?", "pos": 1214623}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Nothing easier. We will send my brother’s servant back to Béthune, whom, as I told you, we can trust. He shall assume a disguise, and place himself in front of the convent. If the emissaries of the cardinal arrive, he will take no notice; if it is Monsieur d’Artagnan and his friends, he will bring them to us.", "pos": 1214630}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "He knows them, then?", "pos": 1214943}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Doubtless. Has he not seen Monsieur d’Artagnan at my house?", "pos": 1214966}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, yes, yes; you are right. Thus all may go well—all may be for the best; but we do not go far from this place?", "pos": 1215028}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Seven or eight leagues at the most. We will keep on the frontiers, for instance; and at the first alarm we can leave France.", "pos": 1215143}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "And what can we do there?", "pos": 1215270}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Wait.", "pos": 1215298}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "But if they come?", "pos": 1215306}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "My brother’s carriage will be here first.", "pos": 1215326}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "If I should happen to be any distance from you when the carriage comes for you—at dinner or supper, for instance?", "pos": 1215370}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Do one thing.", "pos": 1215486}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 1215502}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Tell your good superior that in order that we may be as much together as possible, you ask her permission to share my repast.", "pos": 1215518}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Will she permit it?", "pos": 1215646}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What inconvenience can it be?", "pos": 1215668}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, delightful! In this way we shall not be separated for an instant.", "pos": 1215700}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Well, go down to her, then, to make your request. I feel my head a little confused; I will take a turn in the garden.", "pos": 1215772}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Go; and where shall I find you?", "pos": 1215892}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Here, in an hour.", "pos": 1215926}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Here, in an hour. Oh, you are so kind, and I am so grateful!", "pos": 1215946}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "How can I avoid interesting myself for one who is so beautiful and so amiable? Are you not the beloved of one of my best friends?", "pos": 1216009}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Dear D’Artagnan! Oh, how he will thank you!", "pos": 1216141}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I hope so. Now, then, all is agreed; let us go down.", "pos": 1216187}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "You are going into the garden?", "pos": 1216242}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1216275}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Go along this corridor, down a little staircase, and you are in it.", "pos": 1216282}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Excellent; thank you!", "pos": 1216352}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Do you hear anything?", "pos": 1218593}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Yes, the rolling of a carriage.", "pos": 1218627}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "It is the one my brother sends for us.", "pos": 1218661}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, my God! Come, come! courage! Go to your chamber, you have perhaps some jewels you would like to take.", "pos": 1218702}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "I have his letters,", "pos": 1218911}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Well, go and fetch them, and come to my apartment. We will snatch some supper; we shall perhaps travel part of the night, and must keep our strength up.", "pos": 1218943}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Great God! my heart beats so I cannot walk.", "pos": 1219098}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Courage, courage! remember that in a quarter of an hour you will be safe; and think that what you are about to do is for his sake.", "pos": 1219200}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, yes, everything for him. You have restored my courage by a single word; go, I will rejoin you.", "pos": 1219333}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Milady ran up to her apartment quickly; she there found Rochefort’s lackey, and gave him his instructions. He was to wait at the gate; if by chance the Musketeers should appear, the carriage was to set off as fast as possible, pass around the convent, and go and wait for Milady at a little village which was situated at the other side of the wood. In this case Milady would cross the garden and gain the village on foot. As we have already said, Milady was admirably acquainted with this part of France. If the Musketeers did not appear, things were to go on as had been agreed; Mme. Bonacieux was to get into the carriage as if to bid her adieu, and she was to take away Mme. Bonacieux. Mme. Bonacieux came in; and to remove all suspicion, if she had any, Milady repeated to the lackey, before her, the latter part of her instructions. Milady asked some questions about the carriage. It was a chaise drawn by three horses, driven by a postillion; Rochefort’s lackey would precede it, as courier. You see, everything is ready. The abbess suspects nothing, and believes that I am taken by order of the cardinal. This man goes to give his last orders; take the least thing, drink a finger of wine, and let us be gone.", "pos": 1219434}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, yes, let us be gone.", "pos": 1221086}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Milady made her a sign to sit down opposite, poured her a small glass of Spanish wine, and helped her to the wing of a chicken. See, if everything does not second us! Here is night coming on; by daybreak we shall have reached our retreat, and nobody can guess where we are. Come, courage! take something. But at the moment the glass touched her lips, her hand remained suspended; she heard something on the road which sounded like the rattling of a distant gallop. Then it grew nearer, and it seemed to her, almost at the same time, that she heard the neighing of horses.", "pos": 1221150}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, my God! what is that noise?", "pos": 1222203}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "That of either our friends or our enemies. Stay where you are, I will tell you.", "pos": 1222260}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, my God, my God what is it?", "pos": 1223120}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "It is the uniform of the cardinal’s Guards. Not an instant to be lost! Fly, fly!", "pos": 1223178}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, yes, let us fly!", "pos": 1223261}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Come, then, come, then! Thanks to the garden, we yet can flee; I have the key, but make haste! in five minutes it will be too late! For the last time, will you come?", "pos": 1223437}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, my God, my God! you see my strength fails me; you see plainly I cannot walk. Flee alone!", "pos": 1223968}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Flee alone, and leave you here? No, no, never! Drink. This wine will give you strength, drink! This is not the way that I wished to avenge myself, but, my faith! we do what we can!", "pos": 1224063}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "D’Artagnan! D’Artagnan! is it you? This way! this way!", "pos": 1225459}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Constance? Constance? where are you? where are you? My God!", "pos": 1225529}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, D’Artagnan, my beloved D’Artagnan! You have come, then, at last! You have not deceived me! It is indeed thee!", "pos": 1226047}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, yes, Constance. Reunited!", "pos": 1226163}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, it was in vain she told me you would not come! I hoped in silence. I was not willing to fly. Oh, I have done well! How happy I am!", "pos": 1226196}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "She! What she?", "pos": 1226402}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Why, my companion. She who out of friendship for me wished to take me from my persecutors. She who, mistaking you for the cardinal’s Guards, has just fled away.", "pos": 1226437}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Your companion! Of what companion are you speaking, dear Constance?", "pos": 1226600}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Of her whose carriage was at the gate; of a woman who calls herself your friend; of a woman to whom you have told everything.", "pos": 1226746}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Her name, her name! My God, can you not remember her name?", "pos": 1226874}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, it was pronounced in my hearing once. Stop—but—it is very strange—oh, my God, my head swims! I cannot see!", "pos": 1226955}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Help, help, my friends! her hands are icy cold. She is ill! Great God, she is losing her senses!", "pos": 1227069}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Oh! oh, no, it is impossible! God would not permit such a crime!", "pos": 1227583}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Water, water! Water!", "pos": 1227664}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Oh, poor woman, poor woman!", "pos": 1227707}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "She revives! Oh, my God, my God, I thank thee!", "pos": 1227835}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Madame! madame, in the name of heaven, whose empty glass is this?", "pos": 1227907}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Mine, monsieur,", "pos": 1227989}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "But who poured the wine for you that was in this glass?", "pos": 1228047}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "She.", "pos": 1228105}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "But who is she?", "pos": 1228112}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Oh, I remember! the Comtesse de Winter.", "pos": 1228130}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And what do you believe?", "pos": 1228521}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I believe everything,", "pos": 1228579}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "D’Artagnan, D’Artagnan! where art thou? Do not leave me! You see I am dying!", "pos": 1228671}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "In the name of heaven, run, call! Aramis! Porthos! Call for help!", "pos": 1229045}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Useless! useless! For the poison which she pours there is no antidote.", "pos": 1229113}
{"speaker": "Mme. Bonacieux", "text": "Yes, yes! Help, help! help!", "pos": 1229200}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Constance, Constance!", "pos": 1229467}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "I was not deceived, here is Monsieur d’Artagnan; and you are his friends, Messieurs Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Gentlemen, you are, as I am, in search of a woman who, must have passed this way, for I see a corpse. Gentlemen, since you do not recognize a man who probably owes his life to you twice, I must name myself. I am Lord de Winter, brother-in-law of that woman.", "pos": 1230154}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Be welcome, my Lord, you are one of us.", "pos": 1231012}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "I set out five hours after her from Portsmouth. I arrived three hours after her at Boulogne. I missed her by twenty minutes at St. Omer. Finally, at Lilliers I lost all trace of her. I was going about at random, inquiring of everybody, when I saw you gallop past. I recognized Monsieur d’Artagnan. I called to you, but you did not answer me; I wished to follow you, but my horse was too much fatigued to go at the same pace with yours. And yet it appears, in spite of all your diligence, you have arrived too late.", "pos": 1231065}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You see!", "pos": 1231605}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Are they both dead?", "pos": 1231735}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "No, fortunately Monsieur d’Artagnan has only fainted.", "pos": 1231788}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Ah, indeed, so much the better!", "pos": 1231861}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Friend, be a man! Women weep for the dead; men avenge them!", "pos": 1232251}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Oh, yes! yes! If it be to avenge her, I am ready to follow you.”", "pos": 1232313}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "we abandon to your pious care the body of that unfortunate woman. She was an angel on earth before being an angel in heaven. Treat her as one of your sisters. We will return someday to pray over her grave.” weep, heart full of love, youth, and life! Alas, would I could weep like you!”", "pos": 1232839}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "shall we not pursue that woman?”", "pos": 1233540}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I have measures to take.”", "pos": 1233595}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "she will escape us, and it will be your fault, Athos.”", "pos": 1233667}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I will be accountable for her.” let everyone retire to his own apartment. D’Artagnan needs to be alone, to weep and to sleep. I take charge of everything; be easy.”", "pos": 1233723}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "if there are any measures to take against the countess, it concerns me; she is my sister-in-law.”", "pos": 1234331}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "—she is my wife!” and leave me to act. You must perceive that in my quality of a husband this concerns me. Only, D’Artagnan, if you have not lost it, give me the paper which fell from that man’s hat, upon which is written the name of the village of—”", "pos": 1234452}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I comprehend! that name written in her hand.”", "pos": 1234971}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "there is a god in heaven still!”", "pos": 1235047}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "To wait,", "pos": 1241079}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What is to be done?", "pos": 1244977}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "To wait! Patience! one of our party is still wanting. Wait for me. I will soon be back,", "pos": 1245017}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "What’s the manner? Has she left Armentières? Silence, D’Artagnan! I have charged myself with this affair. It is for me, then, to interrogate Grimaud. Where is she? Far from here? Alone? Gentlemen, she is alone within half a league of us, in the direction of the river.", "pos": 1248361}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That’s well. Lead us, Grimaud.", "pos": 1248923}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Is she there, Grimaud? Silence, then! Here we are!", "pos": 1249217}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "She is there,", "pos": 1249782}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "And Bazin?", "pos": 1249807}
{"speaker": "Mousqueton", "text": "While I watched the window, he guarded the door.", "pos": 1249833}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Good! You are good and faithful servants.", "pos": 1249884}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Put back that weapon, D’Artagnan! this woman must be tried, not assassinated. Wait an instant, my friend, and you shall be satisfied. Come in, gentlemen.", "pos": 1251342}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What do you want?", "pos": 1251917}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "We want. Charlotte Backson, who first was called Comtesse de la Fère, and afterwards Milady de Winter, Baroness of Sheffield.", "pos": 1251954}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "That is I! that is I! what do you want?", "pos": 1252096}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "We wish to judge you according to your crime, you shall be free to defend yourself. Justify yourself if you can. M. d’Artagnan, it is for you to accuse her first.", "pos": 1252176}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Before God and before men. I accuse this woman of having poisoned Constance Bonacieux, who died yesterday evening.", "pos": 1252376}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "We bear witness to this,", "pos": 1252542}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I accuse this woman of having attempted to poison me, in wine which she sent me from Villeroy, with a forged letter, as if that wine came from my friends. God preserved me, but a man named Brisemont died in my place.", "pos": 1252659}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "We bear witness to this,", "pos": 1252878}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Before God and before men. Before God and before men, I accuse this woman of having urged me to the murder of the Baron de Wardes; but as no one else can attest the truth of this accusation, I attest it myself. I have done.", "pos": 1252960}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Your turn, my Lord,", "pos": 1253236}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "Before God and before men. I accuse this woman of having caused the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham. assassinated. On receiving the warning letter you wrote to me, I had this woman arrested, and gave her in charge to a loyal servant. She corrupted this man; she placed the poniard in his hand; she made him kill the duke. And at this moment, perhaps, Felton is paying with his head for the crime of this fury! My brother, who made you his heir, died in three hours of a strange disorder which left livid traces all over the body. My sister, how did your husband die? Assassin of Buckingham, assassin of Felton, assassin of my brother, I demand justice upon you, and I swear that if it be not granted to me, I will execute it myself.", "pos": 1253294}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "my turn. I married that woman when she was a young girl; I married her in opposition to the wishes of all my family; I gave her my wealth, I gave her my name; and one day I discovered that this woman was branded—this woman was marked with a fleur-de-lis on her left shoulder.", "pos": 1254612}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh. I defy you to find any tribunal which pronounced that infamous sentence against me. I defy you to find him who executed it.", "pos": 1254890}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Silence!", "pos": 1255052}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is for me to reply to that!", "pos": 1255084}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "What man is that? What man is that?", "pos": 1255172}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ask that woman,", "pos": 1256146}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "for you may plainly see she knows me!", "pos": 1256195}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "The executioner of Lille, the executioner of Lille! Oh, grace, grace, pardon!", "pos": 1256235}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I told you well that she would know me. Yes, I am the executioner of Lille, and this is my history.", "pos": 1256607}
{"speaker": "The executioner", "text": "I then swore that this woman who had ruined him, who was more than his accomplice, since she had urged him to the crime, should at least share his punishment. I suspected where she was concealed. I followed her, I caught her, I bound her; and I imprinted the same disgraceful mark upon her that I had imprinted upon my poor brother. The day after my return to Lille, my brother in his turn succeeded in making his escape; I was accused of complicity, and was condemned to remain in his place till he should be again a prisoner. My poor brother was ignorant of this sentence. He rejoined this woman; they fled together into Berry, and there he obtained a little curacy. This woman passed for his sister. The Lord of the estate on which the chapel of the curacy was situated saw this pretend sister, and became enamoured of her—amorous to such a degree that he proposed to marry her. Then she quitted him she had ruined for him she was destined to ruin, and became the Comtesse de la Fère— Then,", "pos": 1257818}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "what is the penalty you demand against this woman?”", "pos": 1259555}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "The punishment of death,” replied D’Artagnan.", "pos": 1259608}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "what is the penalty you demand against this woman?”", "pos": 1259693}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "The punishment of death,” replied Lord de Winter.", "pos": 1259746}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "you who are her judges, what is the sentence you pronounce upon this woman?”", "pos": 1259845}
{"speaker": "The Musketeers", "text": "The punishment of death,” replied the Musketeers, in a hollow voice.", "pos": 1259923}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "A thousand pistoles to each of you, if you will assist my escape; but if you deliver me up to your masters, I have near at hand avengers who will make you pay dearly for my death.", "pos": 1262711}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Change these lackeys,” said he; “she has spoken to them. They are no longer sure.", "pos": 1263031}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "You are cowards, miserable assassins—ten men combined to murder one woman. Beware! If I am not saved I shall be avenged.", "pos": 1263323}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You are not a woman,” said Athos, coldly and sternly. “You do not belong to the human species; you are a demon escaped from hell, whither we send you back again.", "pos": 1263446}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Ah, you virtuous men!” said Milady; “please to remember that he who shall touch a hair of my head is himself an assassin.", "pos": 1263610}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The executioner may kill, without being on that account an assassin,” said the man in the red cloak, rapping upon his immense sword. “This is the last judge; that is all. Nachrichter, as say our neighbors, the Germans.", "pos": 1263734}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "If I am guilty, if I have committed the crimes you accuse me of,” shrieked Milady, “take me before a tribunal. You are not judges! You cannot condemn me! Because I am not willing to die!” cried Milady. “Because I am too young to die!", "pos": 1264171}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I will enter a cloister; I will become a nun,” said Milady.", "pos": 1264605}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You were in a cloister,” said the executioner, “and you left it to ruin my brother.", "pos": 1264666}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "Oh, my God!” cried she, “my God! are you going to drown me?", "pos": 1264886}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I cannot behold this frightful spectacle!” said he. “I cannot consent that this woman should die thus!", "pos": 1265315}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "D’Artagnan, D’Artagnan!” cried she; “remember that I loved you!", "pos": 1265481}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "If you take one step farther, D’Artagnan,” said he, “we shall cross swords together.", "pos": 1265666}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Willingly, monseigneur,” said the executioner; “for as I am a good Catholic, I firmly believe I am acting justly in performing my functions on this woman.", "pos": 1265848}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "I pardon you,” said he, “the ill you have done me. I pardon you for my blasted future, my lost honor, my defiled love, and my salvation forever compromised by the despair into which you have cast me. Die in peace!", "pos": 1266053}
{"speaker": "Lord de Winter", "text": "I pardon you,” said he, “for the poisoning of my brother, and the assassination of his Grace, Lord Buckingham. I pardon you for the death of poor Felton; I pardon you for the attempts upon my own person. Die in peace!", "pos": 1266306}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Pardon me, madame, for having by a trick unworthy of a gentleman provoked your anger; and I, in exchange, pardon you the murder of my poor love and your cruel vengeance against me. I pardon you, and I weep for you. Die in peace!", "pos": 1266555}
{"speaker": "Milady", "text": "I am lost!” murmured Milady in English. “I must die! Where am I to die?” said she.", "pos": 1266786}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On the other bank,” replied the executioner.", "pos": 1267044}
{"speaker": "M. de Tréville", "text": "Well, gentlemen,” said the brave captain, “I hope you have been well amused during your excursion.", "pos": 1269210}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Prodigiously,” replied Athos in the name of himself and his comrades.", "pos": 1269311}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "it is false; he has just written to me!", "pos": 1269824}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Holloa, Monsieur d’Artagnan!” said he, “is not that you whom I see yonder? Ah, monsieur!” said the young man, “I meet you, then, at last! This time you shall not escape me!", "pos": 1271636}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "Neither is it my intention, monsieur, for this time I was seeking you; in the name of the king, I arrest you.", "pos": 1272137}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "How! what do you say?” cried D’Artagnan.", "pos": 1272249}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "I say that you must surrender your sword to me, monsieur, and that without resistance. This concerns your head, I warn you.", "pos": 1272291}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Who are you, then?” demanded D’Artagnan, lowering the point of his sword, but without yet surrendering it.", "pos": 1272417}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "I am the Chevalier de Rochefort,” answered the other, “the equerry of Monsieur le Cardinal Richelieu, and I have orders to conduct you to his Eminence.", "pos": 1272525}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "We are returning to his Eminence, monsieur the Chevalier,” said Athos, advancing; “and you will please to accept the word of Monsieur d’Artagnan that he will go straight to La Rochelle. I must place him in the hands of guards who will take him into camp. We will be his guards, monsieur, upon our word as gentlemen; but likewise, upon our word as gentlemen,” added Athos, knitting his brow, “Monsieur d’Artagnan shall not leave us.", "pos": 1272679}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "Gentlemen,” said he, “if Monsieur d’Artagnan will surrender his sword to me and join his word to yours, I shall be satisfied with your promise to convey Monsieur d’Artagnan to the quarters of Monseigneur the Cardinal.", "pos": 1273317}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You have my word, monsieur, and here is my sword.", "pos": 1273537}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "This suits me the better,” said Rochefort, “as I wish to continue my journey.", "pos": 1273589}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "If it is for the purpose of rejoining Milady,” said Athos, coolly, “it is useless; you will not find her.", "pos": 1273669}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "What has become of her, then?” asked Rochefort, eagerly.", "pos": 1273777}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Return to camp and you shall know.", "pos": 1273835}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "We shall wait for you, D’Artagnan,” said Athos, loud enough for the cardinal to hear him.", "pos": 1275039}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "So they tell me, monseigneur.", "pos": 1275820}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Do you know why?", "pos": 1275852}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, monseigneur, for the only thing for which I could be arrested is still unknown to your Eminence.", "pos": 1275871}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Holloa! what does that mean?", "pos": 1276021}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "If Monseigneur will have the goodness to tell me, in the first place, what crimes are imputed to me, I will then tell him the deeds I have really done.", "pos": 1276063}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Crimes are imputed to you which had brought down far loftier heads than yours, monsieur,", "pos": 1276217}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "What, monseigneur?", "pos": 1276327}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "You are charged with having corresponded with the enemies of the kingdom; you are charged with having surprised state secrets; you are charged with having tried to thwart the plans of your general.", "pos": 1276420}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "And who charges me with this, monseigneur? a woman branded by the justice of the country; a woman who has espoused one man in France and another in England; a woman who poisoned her second husband and who attempted both to poison and assassinate me!", "pos": 1276620}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "What do you say, monsieur? and of what woman are you speaking thus?", "pos": 1276941}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Of Milady de Winter, yes, of Milady de Winter, of whose crimes your Eminence is doubtless ignorant, since you have honored her with your confidence.", "pos": 1277045}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Monsieur, if Milady de Winter has committed the crimes you lay to her charge, she shall be punished.", "pos": 1277218}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "She has been punished, monseigneur.", "pos": 1277342}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "And who has punished her?", "pos": 1277380}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "We.", "pos": 1277408}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "She is in prison?", "pos": 1277414}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "She is dead.", "pos": 1277434}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Dead! dead! Did you not say she was dead?", "pos": 1277449}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Three times she attempted to kill me, and I pardoned her; but she murdered the woman I loved. Then my friends and I took her, tried her, and condemned her.", "pos": 1277555}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "So, you have constituted yourselves judges, without remembering that they who punish without license to punish are assassins?", "pos": 1278147}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Monseigneur, I swear to you that I never for an instant had the intention of defending my head against you. I willingly submit to any punishment your Eminence may please to inflict upon me. I do not hold life dear enough to be afraid of death.", "pos": 1278363}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Yes, I know you are a man of a stout heart, monsieur. I can therefore tell you beforehand you shall be tried, and even condemned.", "pos": 1278609}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Another might reply to your Eminence that he had his pardon in his pocket. I content myself with saying: Command, monseigneur; I am ready.", "pos": 1278796}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Your pardon?", "pos": 1278937}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Yes, monseigneur,", "pos": 1278979}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "And signed by whom—by the king?", "pos": 1279016}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "No, by your Eminence.", "pos": 1279130}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "By me? You are insane, monsieur.", "pos": 1279154}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Monseigneur will doubtless recognize his own handwriting.", "pos": 1279189}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Dec. 3, 1627 It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of this has done what he has done. RICHELIEU", "pos": 1279505}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "He is meditating by what sort of punishment he shall cause me to die. Well, my faith! he shall see how a gentleman can die.", "pos": 1279757}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I am lost! That is my condemnation, he will spare me the ennui of the Bastille, or the tediousness of a trial. That’s very kind of him.", "pos": 1280762}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Here, monsieur. I have taken from you one carte blanche to give you another. The name is wanting in this commission; you can write it yourself.", "pos": 1281203}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Monseigneur, my life is yours; henceforth dispose of it. But this favor which you bestow upon me I do not merit. I have three friends who are more meritorious and more worthy—", "pos": 1281550}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "You are a brave youth, D’Artagnan. Do with this commission what you will; only remember, though the name be blank, it is to you I give it.", "pos": 1281739}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I shall never forget it. Your Eminence may be certain of that.", "pos": 1282001}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Rochefort! Rochefort, you see Monsieur d’Artagnan. I receive him among the number of my friends. Greet each other, then; and be wise if you wish to preserve your heads.", "pos": 1282134}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "We shall meet again, shall we not, monsieur?", "pos": 1282570}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "When you please,", "pos": 1282617}
{"speaker": "Rochefort", "text": "An opportunity will come,", "pos": 1282653}
{"speaker": "Cardinal Richelieu", "text": "Hey?", "pos": 1282700}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Here I am, my friends, not only free, but in favor. Tell us about it.", "pos": 1282868}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "This evening; but for the moment, let us separate. Here, my dear Athos, this naturally belongs to you.", "pos": 1282964}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "Friend, for Athos this is too much; for the Comte de la Fère it is too little. Keep the commission; it is yours. Alas! you have purchased it dearly enough.", "pos": 1283453}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Ah, ah! is that you, dear friend?", "pos": 1283794}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "How do you think these garments fit me?", "pos": 1283849}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Wonderfully, but I come to offer you a dress which will become you still better.", "pos": 1283891}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "What?", "pos": 1283993}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "That of a lieutenant of Musketeers. Here, my friend, write your name upon it and become my chief.", "pos": 1284016}
{"speaker": "Porthos", "text": "Yes, yes, that would flatter me very much; but I should not have time enough to enjoy the distinction. During our expedition to Béthune the husband of my duchess died; so, my dear, the coffer of the defunct holding out its arms to me, I shall marry the widow. Look here! I was trying on my wedding suit. Keep the lieutenancy, my dear, keep it.", "pos": 1284364}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "You, our friend, our intelligence, our invisible protector, accept this commission. You have merited it more than any of us by your wisdom and your counsels, always followed by such happy results.", "pos": 1284982}
{"speaker": "Aramis", "text": "Alas, dear friend! our late adventures have disgusted me with military life. This time my determination is irrevocably taken. After the siege I shall enter the house of the Lazarists. Keep the commission, D’Artagnan; the profession of arms suits you. You will be a brave and adventurous captain.", "pos": 1285181}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "Well, they likewise have refused me.", "pos": 1285688}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "That, dear friend, is because nobody is more worthy than yourself.", "pos": 1285738}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I shall then have no more friends. Alas! nothing but bitter recollections.", "pos": 1285896}
{"speaker": "Athos", "text": "You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.", "pos": 1286082}
{"speaker": "D'Artagnan", "text": "I shall probably kill you the fourth,", "pos": 1287664}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is much better both for you and for me to stop where we are,", "pos": 1287764}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Corbleu! I am more your friend than you think—for after our very first encounter, I could by saying a word to the cardinal have had your throat cut!", "pos": 1287856}