Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.
Alexandre DumasPeople in general," he said, "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.
Alexandre DumasSo he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
Alexandre DumasThe difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
Alexandre DumasCatherine wished to discover whether her son were really ill or
feigning. But he, worthy son of such a mother, played his part
to perfection. She had wept, he had a fever.
If you break this door you will find me dead on the threshold."
And be easy, madame, you shall be revenged," said Bussy.
D'Artagnan looked his friend earnestly in the face. "You know one
thing," continued the comte, leaning upon the arm of the captain; "you
know that in the course of my life I have been afraid of but few things.
Well! I have an incessant gnawing, insurmountable fear that an hour will
come in which I shall hold the dead body of that boy in my arms.
He has not recovered the blow?" said he to Athos.
He is struck to death."
Oh! your fears exaggerate, I hope. Raoul is of a tempered nature. Around all hearts as noble as his, there is a second envelope that forms a cuirass. The first bleeds, the second resists."
No," replied Athos, "Raoul will die of it."
_Mordioux!_" said D'Artagnan, in a melancholy tone. And he did not add a word to this exclamation. Then, a minute after, "Why do you let him go?"
Because he insists on going."
And why do you not go with him?"
Because I could not bear to see him die.
Grimaud left the chamber, and led the way to the hall, where, according
to the custom of the province, the body was laid out, previously to
being put away forever. D'Artagnan was struck at seeing two open coffins
in the hall. In reply to the mute invitation of Grimaud, he approached,
and saw in one of them Athos, still handsome in death, and, in the
other, Raoul with his eyes closed, his cheeks pearly as those of the
Palls of Virgil, with a smile on his violet lips. He shuddered at seeing
the father and son, those two departed souls, represented on earth by
two silent, melancholy bodies, incapable of touching each other, however
close they might be.
......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.
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