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The Three Musketeers

19 PLAN OF CAMPAIGN
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Let each take seventy-five; that is enough to take us to London and back.

Besides, make yourselves easy; we shall not all arrive at London." "Why so ?" "Because, in all probability, some one of us will be left on the road." "Is this, then, a campaign upon which we are now entering ?" "One of a most dangerous kind, I give you notice." "Ah! But if we do risk being killed," said Porthos, "at least I should like to know what for." "You would be all the wiser," said Athos.
"And yet," said Aramis, "I am somewhat of Porthos's opinion." "Is the king accustomed to give you such reasons?
No.

He says to you jauntily, 'Gentlemen, there is fighting going on in Gascony or in Flanders; go and fight,' and you go there.

Why?
You need give yourselves no more uneasiness about this." "d'Artagnan is right," said Athos; "here are our three leaves of absence which came from Monsieur de Treville, and here are three hundred pistoles which came from I don't know where.

So let us go and get killed where we are told to go.


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