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The Three Musketeers

55 CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY
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Beware! I have warned you! But be of good courage, my lad; in three days we shall be delivered from this creature, and where I shall send her she can harm nobody." "You hear him!" cried Milady, with vehemence, so that the baron might believe she was addressing heaven, and that Felton might understand she was addressing him.
Felton lowered his head and reflected.
The baron took the young officer by the arm, and turned his head over his shoulder, so as not to lose sight of Milady till he was gone out.
"Well," said the prisoner, when the door was shut, "I am not so far advanced as I believed.

De Winter has changed his usual stupidity into a strange prudence.

It is the desire of vengeance, and how desire molds a man! As to Felton, he hesitates.

Ah, he is not a man like that cursed d'Artagnan.

A Puritan only adores virgins, and he adores them by clasping his hands.


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