Prostate Health
Prostate Articles
Antioxidant levels key for prostate cancer risk
Obesity and prostate health
Tomatoes for prostate health
Green tea and prostate health
Screening tests for prostate
Books
The Three Musketeers
Twenty Years Later
The Vicomte De Bragelonne
|
|
The Vicomte De Bragelonne 65 at Prostate Health
I know well. What sort of an affair, monsieur,without too much curiosity?""Planchet, it is a restoration.""Of monuments?""Yes, of monuments; we shall restore Whitehall.""That is important. And in a month, you think?""I shall undertake it.""That concerns you, monsieur, and when once you are engaged---- ""Yes, that concerns me. I know what I am about;nevertheless, I will freely consult with you.""You do me great honor; but I know very little aboutarchitecture.""Planchet, you are wrong; you are an excellent architect,quite as good as I am, for the case in question.""Thanks, monsieur. But your old friends of the musketeers?""I have been, I confess, tempted to speak of the thing tothose gentlemen, but they are all absent from their houses.It is vexatious, for I know none more bold or more able.""Ah! then it appears there will be an opposition, and theenterprise will be disputed?""Oh, yes, Planchet, yes.""I burn to know the details, monsieur.""Here they are, Planchet -- close all the doors tight.""Yes, monsieur." And Planchet double-locked them."That is well; now draw near." Planchet obeyed."And open the window, because the noise of the passers-byand the carts will deafen all who might hear us." Planchetopened the window as desired, and the gust of tumult whichfilled the chamber with cries, wheels, barkings, and stepsdeafened DArtagnan himself, as he had wished. He thenswallowed a glass of white wine and began in these terms:"Planchet, I have an idea.""Ah! monsieur, I recognize you so well in that!" repliedPlanchet, panting with emotion.CHAPTER 20Of the Society which was formed in the Rue des Lombards,at the Sign of the Pilon dOr, to carry out M. dArtagnans IdeaAfter a moments silence, in which DArtagnan appeared to becollecting, not one idea, but all his ideas -- "It cannotbe, my dear Planchet," said he, "that you have not heard ofhis majesty Charles I. of England?""Alas! yes, monsieur, since you left France in order toassist him, and that, in spite of that assistance, he fell,and was near dragging you down in his fall.""Exactly so; I see you have a good memory, Planchet.""Peste! the astonishing thing would be, if I could have lostthat memory, however bad it might have been. When one hasheard Grimaud, who, you know, is not given to talking,relate how the head of King Charles fell, how you sailed thehalf of a night in a scuttled vessel, and saw floating onthe water that good M. Mordaunt with a certain gold-hafteddagger buried in his breast, one is not very likely toforget such things.""And yet there are people who forget them, Planchet.""Yes, such as have not seen them, or have not heard Grimaudrelate them.""Well, it is all the better that you recollect all that; Ishall only have to remind you of one thing, and that is thatCharles I. had a son.""Without contradicting you, monsieur, he had two," saidPlanchet; "for I saw the second one in Paris, M. le Duke ofYork, one day, as he was going to the Palais Royal, and Iwas told that he was not the eldest son of Charles I. As tothe eldest, I have the honor of knowing him by name, but notpersonally.""That is exactly the point, Planchet, we must come to: it isto this eldest son, formerly called the Prince of Wales, andwho is now styled Charles II., king of England.""A king without a kingdom, monsieur," replied Planchet,sententiously."Yes, Planchet, and you may add an unfortunate prince, moreunfortunate than the poorest man of the people lost in theworst quarter of Paris."Planchet made a gesture full of that sort of compassionwhich we grant to strangers with whom we think we can neverpossibly find ourselves in contact. Besides, he did not seein this politico-sentimental operation any sign of thecommercial idea of M. dArtagnan, and it was in this ideathat DArtagnan, who was, from habit, pretty well acquaintedwith men and things, had principally interested Planchet."I am coming to our business. This young Prince of Wales, aking without a kingdom, as you have so well said, Planchet,has interested me. I, DArtagnan, have seen him beggingassistance of Mazarin, who is a miser, and the aid of Louis,who is a child, and it appeared to me, who am acquaintedwith such things, that in the intelligent eye of the fallenking, in the nobility of his whole person, a nobilityapparent above all
The Vicomte De Bragelonne page 64 The Vicomte De Bragelonne page 66 |
