The Secret Adversary AGATHA CHRISTIE CHAPTER 28 ppsx

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... CHAPTER 28 THAT night Tom and Huck were ready for their adventure. They hung about the neighborhood of the tavern until after nine, one watching the alley at a distance and the other the ... an hour before the repetition was uttered. The boys never stopped till they reached the shed of a deserted slaughter-house at the lower end of the village. Just -256-...

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... "What's the name of them people over on t'other side of the river that you all goes to see sometimes?" They says: "There's several; but it's the Proctors, mainly." ... Well, then, we won't blow on them." Everything was all right now. The girls wouldn't say nothing because they wanted to go to England; and the king and the...

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... under the porch of the convent. The fourth, as we have said, was dead. They then rang the bell, and carrying away four swords out of five, they took their road, intoxicated with joy, toward the ... which the counsels of his father had implanted in his heart: “Endure nothing from anyone but the king, the cardinal, and Monsieur de Tréville.” He flew, then, rather than walk...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 03:20

... their purses to their lives; four men always supporting one another, never yielding, executing singly or together the resolutions formed in common; four arms threatening the four cardinal ... selling some theological books in procuring a few pistoles. Then, as they had been accustomed to do, they had recourse to M. de Tréville, who made some advances on their pay; but these advance...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 03:20

... selfish in the eyes of Athos. He acquiesced, therefore, and chose the hundred pistoles, which the Englishman paid down on the spot. They then determined to depart. Peace with the landlord, ... rising from the table, the story of the present day making him forget that of the preceding one. D’Artagnan breathed as if the whole hostelry had been removed from his brea...

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... out early in the morning, and returned late at night. They wandered about the streets, looking at the pavement a if to see whether the passengers had not left a purse behind them. They might ... It may be seen by these disastrous details that desolation reigned in the community. The lackeys on their part, like the coursers of Hippolytus, shared the sadness of their mast...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 03:20

... “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 THE THREE MUSKERTEERS ... again on the morrow and the day after that, and each day Milady gave him a more gracious reception. Every evening, either in the antechamber, the corridor, or on...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 03:20

... quitting Milady felt only the liveliest regret at the parting; and as they addressed each other in a reciprocally passionate adieu, another interview was arranged for the following week. Poor ... nowhere waiting for him; neither in the antechamber, nor in the corridor, nor beneath the great door. It was necessary that D’Artagnan should find alone the staircase and the li...

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... all? speak, then.” And then accompanying the glance with explanatory words, “That is but too just,” said she, tenderly. “Oh, you are an angel!” exclaimed the young man. “Then all is agreed?” ... friends, particularly at the moment you are about to leave them for so long a time. My brother-in-law and myself expected you yesterday and the day before, but in vain. Will it be t...

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