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The Three Musketeers

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D'Artagnan picked it up and offered it to Lord de Winter.
"What the devil would you have me do with that ?" said the Englishman.
"You can restore it to his family," said d'Artagnan.
"His family will care much about such a trifle as that! His family will inherit fifteen thousand louis a year from him.

Keep the purse for your lackeys." D'Artagnan put the purse into his pocket.
"And now, my young friend, for you will permit me, I hope, to give you that name," said Lord de Winter, "on this very evening, if agreeable to you, I will present you to my sister, Milady Clarik, for I am desirous that she should take you into her good graces; and as she is not in bad odor at court, she may perhaps on some future day speak a word that will not prove useless to you." D'Artagnan blushed with pleasure, and bowed a sign of assent.
At this time Athos came up to d'Artagnan.
"What do you mean to do with that purse ?" whispered he.
"Why, I meant to pass it over to you, my dear Athos." "Me! why to me ?" "Why, you killed him! They are the spoils of victory." "I, the heir of an enemy!" said Athos; "for whom, then, do you take me ?" "It is the custom in war," said d'Artagnan, "why should it not be the custom in a duel ?" "Even on the field of battle, I have never done that." Porthos shrugged his shoulders; Aramis by a movement of his lips endorsed Athos.
"Then," said d'Artagnan, "let us give the money to the lackeys, as Lord de Winter desired us to do." "Yes," said Athos; "let us give the money to the lackeys--not to our lackeys, but to the lackeys of the Englishmen." Athos took the purse, and threw it into the hand of the coachman.

"For you and your comrades." This greatness of spirit in a man who was quite destitute struck even Porthos; and this French generosity, repeated by Lord de Winter and his friend, was highly applauded, except by MM.

Grimaud, Bazin, Mousqueton and Planchet.
Lord de Winter, on quitting d'Artagnan, gave him his sister's address.
She lived in the Place Royale--then the fashionable quarter--at Number 6, and he undertook to call and take d'Artagnan with him in order to introduce him.

d'Artagnan appointed eight o'clock at Athos's residence.
This introduction to Milady Clarik occupied the head of our Gascon greatly.


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