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The Three Musketeers

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Lord de Winter did the same.
"Change these lackeys," said he; "she has spoken to them.

They are no longer sure." Planchet and Bazin were called, and took the places of Grimaud and Mousqueton.
On the bank of the river the executioner approached Milady, and bound her hands and feet.
Then she broke the silence to cry out, "You are cowards, miserable assassins--ten men combined to murder one woman.

Beware! If I am not saved I shall be avenged." "You are not a woman," said Athos, coldly and sternly.

"You do not belong to the human species; you are a demon escaped from hell, whither we send you back again." "Ah, you virtuous men!" said Milady; "please to remember that he who shall touch a hair of my head is himself an assassin." "The executioner may kill, without being on that account an assassin," said the man in the red cloak, rapping upon his immense sword.

"This is the last judge; that is all.


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