[The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas]@TWC D-Link bookThe Three Musketeers 30 D'ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN 3/9
What is to be said? I must divert my attention!" "Amuse yourself with Milady, my dear d'Artagnan; I wish you may with all my heart, if that will amuse you." "Hear me, Athos," said d'Artagnan.
"Instead of shutting yourself up here as if you were under arrest, get on horseback and come and take a ride with me to St.Germain." "My dear fellow," said Athos, "I ride horses when I have any; when I have none, I go afoot." "Well," said d'Artagnan, smiling at the misanthropy of Athos, which from any other person would have offended him, "I ride what I can get; I am not so proud as you.
So AU REVOIR, dear Athos." "AU REVOIR," said the Musketeer, making a sign to Grimaud to uncork the bottle he had just brought. D'Artagnan and Planchet mounted, and took the road to St.Germain. All along the road, what Athos had said respecting Mme.Bonacieux recurred to the mind of the young man.
Although d'Artagnan was not of a very sentimental character, the mercer's pretty wife had made a real impression upon his heart.
As he said, he was ready to go to the end of the world to seek her; but the world, being round, has many ends, so that he did not know which way to turn.
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