... ... ...ia State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any wa... ...free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania... ...hose wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an e... ...ual opportunity university. 3 Dumas Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas [Pere] The Vicomte de Bragelonne. V olume I. CHAPTER 1 The Letter. TOWARDS THE... ...woods of Chiverny, Monsieur crossed the Loire, went to breakfast at Chambord, with or without an appe- tite and the city of Blois heard no more of its... ...tments, where his valet changed his dress, and as Madame had not yet sent orders respecting breakfast, Monsieur stretched himself upon a chaise longue... ...looked at her turbulent companion with an eye as limpid, as pure, and as blue as the azure of the day. Her hair, of a shaded fairness, ar- ranged with... ...nd conduct her from the salon to the refectory. This formality being accomplished with great ceremony, the husband and wife breakfasted, and then sepa...

...Excerpt: Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, ...

...The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Three Musket... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ... an electronic transmission, in any way. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim M... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas [Pere] AUTHOR’S PRE... ... but he had reckoned without his guest. On the following morning at five o’clock D’Artagnan arose, and descending to the kitchen without help, asked, ... ...leep of the brave. This sleep, provincial as it was, brought him to nine o’clock in the morning; at which hour he rose, in order to repair to the resi... ...l, situated in the Rue du Vieux- Colombier, resembled a camp from by six o’clock in the morning in summer and eight o’clock in winter. From fifty to s...