Twenty years after - edizione con copertina flessibile

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VIII. How D'artagnan, On Going To A Distance To Find Out Aramis, Discovers That His Friend Was Riding Behind Planchet. The plan adopted by D'Artagnan was soon perfected He resolved not to reach Noisy in the day, for fear of being recognised: he had therefore plenty of time before him, for Noisy is only three or four leagues from Paris, on the road to Meaux He began his day by breakfasting very substantially?a bad beginning when one wants to employ the head, but an excellent precaution when one wants to work the body; and about two o'clock he had his two horses saddled, and followed by Planchet, he quitted Paris by the Barriere de la Villette. At about a league and a half from the city, D'Artagnan, finding that in his impatience he had set out too soon, stopped to give the horses breathing time. The inn was full of disreputable-looking people, who seemed as if they were on the point of commencing some nightly expeditioa A man, wrapped in a cloak, appeared at the door; but seeing a stranger, he beckoned to his companions, and two men who were drinking in the inn went out to speak to him. D'Artagnan, on his side, went up to the landlady?praised her wine?which was a horrible production from the country of Mon- treuil?and heard from her that there were only two houses of importance in the village; one of these belonged to the Archbishop of Paris, and was at that time the abode of his niece, the Duchess of Longueville; the other was a convent of Jesuits, and was the property?a by no means unusual circumstance?of these worthy fathers. At four o'clock D'Artagnan recommenced his journey. He proceeded slowly, and in a deep reverie. Planchet was also lost in thought, but the subject of their reflections was not the same. One word which their landlady had pronoun...