Guards, musketeers, officers, soldiers, murmurs, uneasiness, dispersed, vanished, died away; there was an end of menace and sedition.

One word had calmed the waves.

The king had desired Brienne to say, "Hush, messieurs! you disturb the king." D'Artagnan sighed.

"All is over!" said he; "the musketeers of the present day are not those of his majesty Louis XIII.

All is over!" "Monsieur d'Artagnan, you are wanted in the ante-chamber of the king," proclaimed an usher..