Part 52 (1/2)
”For a short ti time, who knows? But with 2,500 livres, and the 2,500 you have already received, you are paid according to our agreement We are quits, then, my friend”
”But the boat?”
”Do not trouble yourself about that”
”Our things are on board the felucca”
”Go and seek them, and then set off inan returned to Monk, saying,--”Monsieur, I await your orders, for I understand we are to go together, unless reeable to you”
”On the contrary, entlemen, on board,” cried Keyser's son
Charles bowed to the general with grace and dignity, saying,--”You will pardon me this unfortunate accident, and the violence to which you have been subjected, when you are convinced that I was not the cause of the On his side, Charles affected not to say a word to D'Artagnan in private, but aloud,--”Once more, thanks, monsieur le chevalier,” said he, ”thanks for your services They will be repaid you by the Lord God, who, I hope, reserves trials and troubles for me alone”
Monk followed Keyser and his son e to himself,--”Poor Planchet! poor Planchet! I am very much afraid we have made a bad speculation”
Chapter xxx The Shares of Planchet and Coe, Monk only spoke to D'Artagnan in cases of urgent necessity Thus, when the Frenchman hesitated to come and take his meals, poor in, Monk called hi,--”To table, nan, froreat occasions, extreeneral's conciseness a favorable augury of the result of his nan had plenty of ti this ti Charles, how he had conspired his departure with him, and lastly, how he had entered Monk's camp; and the poor lieutenant of musketeers plucked a hair from his mustache every time that he reflected that the horseht of the fath, after a passage of two nights and two days, the patron Keyser touched at the point where Monk, who had given all the orders during the voyage, had commanded they should land It was exactly at the mouth of the little river, near where Athos had chosen his abode
Daylight aning, a splendid sun, like a red steel buckler, was plunging the lower extremity of its disc beneath the blue line of the sea The felucca wasfair way up the river, tolerably wide in that part, but Monk, in his impatience, desired to be landed, and Keyser's boat set hinan upon the ned to obedience, followed Monk exactly as a chained bear follows his rus was a bitter one, and that the best of the and hasty strides; itreached English land They had already begun to perceive distinctly a few of the cottages of the sailors and fishermen spread over the little quay of this hunan cried out,--”God pardon me, there is a house on fire!”
Monk raised his eyes, and perceived there was, in fact, a house which the flaun at a little shed belonging to the house, the roof of which had caught The fresh evening breeze agitated the fire The two travelers quickened their steps, hearing loud cries, and seeing, as they drew nearer, soldiers with their glittering arms pointed towards the house on fire It was doubtless this nal the felucca
Monk stopped short for an instant, and, for the first tihts into words ”Eh! but,” said he, ”perhaps they are not my soldiers but Lambert's”
These words contained at once a sorrow, and apprehension, and a reproach perfectly intelligible to D'Artagnan In fact, during the general's absence, Laiven battle, conquered, and dispersed the parliament's army, and taken with his own the place of Monk's arest support At this doubt, which passed fronan reasoned in thisto happen; either Monk has spoken correctly, and there are no longer any but Lambertists in the country--that is to say, enemies, ould receive me wonderfully well, since it is to ed, and Monk, transported with joy at finding his camp still in the same place, will not prove too severe in his settle thus, the two travelers advanced, and began to le with a little knot of sailors, who looked on with sorrow at the burning house, but did not dare to say anything on account of the threats of the soldiers Monk addressed one of these sailors:--”What is going on here?” asked he
”Sir,” replied theMonk as an officer, under the thick cloak which enveloped hientlener becaet into his house under pretense of taking hihtened by their number, threatened death to the first who should cross the threshold of his door; and as there was one who did venture, the Frenchman stretched him on the earth with a pistol-shot”
”Ah! he is a French his hands
”Good!”
”How good?” replied the fisherue slipped”
”What then, sir?--why, the other ed as so many lions: they fired more than a hundred shots at the house; but the Frenchman was sheltered by the wall, and every time they tried to enter by the door they met with a shot from his lackey, whose aim is deadly, d'ye see?
Every time they threatened the , they met with a pistol-shot from the master Look and count--there are seven nan, ”wait a little, wait a little I will be with you; and ill settle with this rabble”
”One instant, sir,” said Monk, ”wait”