Twenty Years After

by Alexander Dumas

  VII In Which d’Artagnan Is Confounded, but Receives Aid from an Unexpected Quarter

  VIII The Differing Effects of a Half-Pistole When Bestowed upon a Beadle and a Choirboy

  IX In Which D’Artagnan, Seeking Aramis, Finds Him on Planchet’s Crupper

  X The Abbé d’Herblay

  XI Pas de Deux

  XII Monsieur Porthos du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds

  XIII In Which d’Artagnan Finds Porthos, and Learns That Money Can’t Buy Happiness

  XIV In Which We Find That, If Porthos Was Unhappy with His Situation, Mousqueton Was Not

  XV Angelic Youth

  XVI The Château de Bragelonne

  XVII The Diplomacy of Athos

  XVIII Monsieur de Beaufort

  XIX How the Duc de Beaufort Amused Himself in the Dungeon of Vincennes

  XX Grimaud Assumes His Post

  XXI What Was Hidden in the Pies of Père Marteau’s Successor

  XXII An Adventure of Marie Michon

  XXIII The Abbé Scarron

  XXIV Saint-Denis

  XXV One of the Duc de Beaufort’s Forty Methods of Escape

  XXVI A Timely Arrival and a Hasty Departure

  XXVII The King’s Highway

  XXVIII Encounter

  XXIX Good Councilor Broussel

  XXX Four Old Friends Prepare for a Council

  XXXI The Place Royale

  XXXII The Oise Ferry

  XXXIII Skirmish

  XXXIV The Monk

  XXXV The Absolution

  XXXVI Grimaud Speaks

  XXXVII The Eve of Battle

  XXXVIII A Dinner as of Old

  XXXIX The Letter from Charles I

  XL The Letter from Cromwell

  XLI Mazarin and Queen Henriette

  XLII How Those in Need Sometimes Mistake Blind Luck for God’s Will

  XLII The Uncle and the Nephew

  XLIV Paternity

  XLv Once More the Queen Asks for Aid

  XLVI In Which It Is Shown That the First Impulse Is Always the Right One

  Dramatis Personae

  Notes on the Text of Twenty Years After

  Acknowledgments

  Also by Lawrence Ellsworth

  Copyright