: Alexandre Dumas
: Dumas in English 13 Historical Novels
: Seltzer Books
: 9781455415410
: 1
: CHF 0.70
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: Historische Romane und Erzählungen
: English
: 7280
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This file includes: Marguerite de Valois, The Black Tulip, The Companions of Jehu, The Conspirators, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Forty-Five Guardsmen, The Prussian Terror, Celebrated Crimes (all eight volumes) and all six volumes of the Three Musketeers Series (The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte de Bragelone, Ten Years Later, Louise de la Valliere, and The Man in the Iron Mask. According to Wikipedia: 'Alexandre Dumas, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (24 July 1802 - 5 December 1870) was a French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were originally serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent.'

 CHAPTER VII.  THE NIGHT OF THE 24TH OF AUGUST, 1572.


 

 When La Mole and Coconnas had finished their supper--and it was meagre enough, for the fowls of La Belle Étoile had their pin feathers singed only on the sign--Coconnas whirled his chair around on one leg, stretched out his feet, leaned one elbow on the table, and drinking a last glass of wine, said:

 

"Do you mean to go to bed instantly, Monsieur de la Mole?"

 

"Ma foi! I am very much inclined, for it is possible that I may be called up in the night."

 

"An