"Alexandre Dumas. The Three Musketeers." - читать интересную книгу автора

39. A VISION
40. A TERRIBLE VISION
41. THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
42. THE ANJOU WINE
43. THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT
44. THE UTILITY OF STOVEPIPES
45. A CONJUGAL SCENE
46. THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS
47. THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS
48. A FAMILY AFFAIR
49. FATALITY
50. CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER
51. OFFICER
52. CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY
53. CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY
54. CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY
55. CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY
56. CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
57. MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY
58. ESCAPE
59. WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH
60. IN FRANCE
61. THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE
62. TWO VARIETIES OF DEMONS
63. THE DROP OF WATER
64. THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK
65. TRIAL
66. EXECUTION
67. CONCLUSION
EPILOGUE


AUTHOR'S PREFACE

In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names' ending in OS
and IS, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to
relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them.
A short time ago, while making researches in the Royal Library for my
History of Louis XIV, I stumbled by chance upon the Memoirs of M.
D'Artagnan, printed--as were most of the works of that period, in which
authors could not tell the truth without the risk of a resi-dence, more or
less long, in the Bastille--at Amsterdam, by Pierre Rouge. The title
at-tracted me; I took them home with me, with the permission of the
guardian, and devoured them.
It is not my intention here to enter into an analysis of this curious
work; and I shall sat-isfy myself with referring such of my readers as
appreciate the pictures of the period to its pages. They will therein find
portraits penciled by the hand of a master; and although these squibs may
be, for the most part, traced upon the doors of barracks and the walls of
caba-rets, they will not find the likenesses of Louis XIII, Anne of