[The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas]@TWC D-Link bookThe Three Musketeers 5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS 14/14  
 The Musketeers saluted  Bicarat with their swords, and returned them to their sheaths.     D'Artagnan did the same. 
  Then, assisted by Bicarat, the only one left  standing, he bore Jussac, Cahusac, and one of Aramis's adversaries who  was only wounded, 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  hotel of M.de Treville.       They walked arm in arm, occupying the whole width of the street and  taking in every Musketeer they met, so that in the end it became a  triumphal march. 
  The heart of d'Artagnan swam in delirium; he marched  between Athos and Porthos, pressing them tenderly.       "If I am not yet a Musketeer," said he to his new friends, as he passed  through the gateway of M.de Treville's hotel, "at least I have entered  upon my apprenticeship, haven't I  ?". 
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