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The Three Musketeers

4 THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS
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I wish to kill you, be at rest as to that, but to kill you quietly in a snug, remote place, where you will not be able to boast of your death to anybody." "I agree, monsieur; but do not be too confident.

Take your handkerchief; whether it belongs to you or another, you may perhaps stand in need of it." "Monsieur is a Gascon ?" asked Aramis.
"Yes.

Monsieur does not postpone an interview through prudence ?" "Prudence, monsieur, is a virtue sufficiently useless to Musketeers, I know, but indispensable to churchmen; and as I am only a Musketeer provisionally, I hold it good to be prudent.

At two o'clock I shall have the honor of expecting you at the hotel of Monsieur de Treville.

There I will indicate to you the best place and time." The two young men bowed and separated, Aramis ascending the street which led to the Luxembourg, while d'Artagnan, perceiving the appointed hour was approaching, took the road to the Carmes-Deschaux, saying to himself, "Decidedly I can't draw back; but at least, if I am killed, I shall be killed by a Musketeer.".


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