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Title: Twenty years after

Author: Alexandre Dumas
 Auguste Maquet

 
Release date: March 1, 1998 [eBook #1259]
 Most recently updated: October 15, 2025

Language: English

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Twenty Years After

By Alexandre Dumas, Père

Second Volume of the D'Artagnan Series

LINKED INDEX OF PROJECT GUTENBERG VOLUMES:

ORDER TITLE PG EBOOK# DATES VOLUME CHAPTERS
1 The Three Musketeers 1257 1625-1628 1
2 Twenty Years After 1259 1648-1649 2
3 The Vicomte de Bragelonne 2609 1660 3 1-75
4 Ten Years Later 2681 1660-1661 3 76-140
5 Louise de la Vallière 2710 1661 3 141-208
6 The Man in the Iron Mask 2759 1661-1673 3 209-269

[Project Gutenberg eBook 1258 listed below, is of the same title as
eBook 2681 and its contents overlap those of two other volumes: it
includes all the chapters of eBook 2609 and the first 28 chapters of
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 TITLE PG EBOOK# DATES VOLUME CHAPTERS
 Ten Years Later 1258 1660-1661 3 1-104

CONTENTS

 Chapter I. The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu.
 Chapter II. A Nightly Patrol.
 Chapter III. Dead Animosities.
 Chapter IV. Anne of Austria at the Age of Forty-six.
 Chapter V. The Gascon and the Italian.
 Chapter VI. D'Artagnan in his Fortieth Year.
 Chapter VII. Touches upon the Strange Effects a Half-pistole may have.
 Chapter VIII. D'Artagnan, Going to a Distance to discover Aramis.
 Chapter IX. The Abbé D'Herblay.
 Chapter X. Monsieur Porthos du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds.
 Chapter XI. Wealth does not necessarily produce Happiness.
 Chapter XII. Porthos was Discontented with his Condition.
 Chapter XIII. Two Angelic Faces.
 Chapter XIV. The Castle of Bragelonne.
 Chapter XV. Athos as a Diplomatist.
 Chapter XVI. The Duc de Beaufort.
 Chapter XVII. Duc de Beaufort amused his Leisure Hours in the Donjon of Vincennes.
 Chapter XVIII. Grimaud begins his Functions.
 Chapter XIX. Pâtés made by the Successor of Father Marteau are described.
 Chapter XX. One of Marie Michon's Adventures.
 Chapter XXI. The Abbé Scarron.
 Chapter XXII. Saint Denis.
 Chapter XXIII. One of the Forty Methods of Escape of the Duc de Beaufort.
 Chapter XXIV. The timely Arrival of D'Artagnan in Paris.
 Chapter XXV. An Adventure on the High Road.
 Chapter XXVI. The Rencontre.
 Chapter XXVII. The four old Friends prepare to meet again.
 Chapter XXVIII. The Place Royale.
 Chapter XXIX. The Ferry across the Oise.
 Chapter XXX. Skirmishing.
 Chapter XXXI. The Monk.
 Chapter XXXII. The Absolution.
 Chapter XXXIII. Grimaud Speaks.
 Chapter XXXIV. On the Eve of Battle.
 Chapter XXXV. A Dinner in the Old Style.
 Chapter XXXVI. A Letter from Charles the First.
 Chapter XXXVII. Cromwell's Letter.
 Chapter XXXVIII. Henrietta Maria and Mazarin.
 Chapter XXXIX. How, sometimes, the Unhappy mistake Chance for Providence.
 Chapter XL. Uncle and Nephew.
 Chapter XLI. Paternal Affection.
 Chapter XLII. Another Queen in Want of Help.
 Chapter XLIII. In which it is proved that first Impulses are oftentimes the best.
 Chapter XLIV. Te Deum for the Victory of Lens.
 Chapter XLV. The Beggar of St. Eustache.
 Chapter XLVI. The Tower of St. Jacques de la Boucherie.
 Chapter XLVII. The Riot.
 Chapter XLVIII. The Riot becomes a Revolution.
 Chapter XLIX. Misfortune refreshes the Memory.
 Chapter L. The Interview.
 Chapter LI. The Flight.
 Chapter LII. The Carriage of Monsieur le Coadjuteur.
 Chapter LIII. How D'Artagnan and Porthos earned by selling Straw.
 Chapter LIV. In which we hear Tidings of Aramis.
 Chapter LV. The Scotchman.
 Chapter LVI. The Avenger.
 Chapter LVII. Oliver Cromwell.
 Chapter LVIII. Jesus Seigneur.
 Chapter LIX. Noble Natures never lose Courage, nor good Stomachs their Appetites.
 Chapter LX. Respect to Fallen Majesty.
 Chapter LXI. D'Artagnan hits on a Plan.
 Chapter LXII. London.
 Chapter LXIII. The Trial.
 Chapter LXIV. Whitehall.
 Chapter LXV. The Workmen.
 Chapter LXVI. Remember!
 Chapter LXVII. The Man in the Mask.
 Chapter LXVIII. Cromwell's House.
 Chapter LXIX. Conversational.
 Chapter LXX. The Skiff "Lightning."
 Chapter LXXI. Port Wine.
 Chapter LXXII. End of the Port Wine Mystery.
 Chapter LXXIII. Fatality.
 Chapter LXXIV. How Mousqueton had a Narrow Escape of being eaten.
 Chapter LXXV. The Return.
 Chapter LXXVI. The Ambassadors.
 Chapter LXXVII. The three Lieutenants of the Generalissimo.
 Chapter LXXVIII. The Battle of Charenton.
 Chapter LXXIX. The Road to Picardy.
 Chapter LXXX. The Gratitude of Anne of Austria.
 Chapter LXXXI. Cardinal Mazarin as King.
 Chapter LXXXII. Precautions.
 Chapter LXXXIII. Strength and Sagacity.
 Chapter LXXXIV. Strength and Sagacity-Continued.
 Chapter LXXXV. The Oubliettes of Cardinal Mazarin.
 Chapter LXXXVI. Conferences.
 Chapter LXXXVII. Thinking that Porthos will be at last a Baron, and D'Artagnan a Captain.
 Chapter LXXXVIII. Shows how with Threat and Pen more is effected than by the Sword.
 Chapter LXXXIX. Difficult for Kings to return to the Capitals of their Kingdoms.
 Chapter XC. Conclusion.

Chapter I.
The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu.

In a splendid chamber of the Palais Royal, formerly styled the Palais
Cardinal, a man was sitting in deep reverie, his head supported on his
hands, leaning over a gilt and inlaid table which was covered with
letters and papers. Behind this figure glowed a vast fireplace alive
with leaping flames; great logs of oak blazed and crackled on the
polished brass andirons whose flicker shone upon the superb habiliments
of the lonely tenant of the room, which was illumined grandly by twin
candelabra rich with wax-lights.

Any one who happened at that moment to contemplate that red simar-the
gorgeous robe of office-and the rich lace, or who gazed on that pale
brow, bent in anxious meditation, might, in the solitude of that
apartment, combined with the silence of the ante-chambers and the
measured paces of the guards upon the landing-place, have fancied that
the shade of Cardinal Richelieu lingered still in his accustomed haunt.

It was, alas! the ghost of former greatness. France enfeebled, the
authority of her sovereign contemned, her nobles returning to their
former turbulence and insolence, her enemies within her frontiers-all
proved the great Richelieu no longer in existence.

In truth, that the red simar which occupied the wonted place was his no
longer, was still more strikingly obvious from the isolation which
seemed, as we have observed, more appropri

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