THE THREE MUSKERTEERS ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 9 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | THE THREE MUSKERTEERS ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 9 9. D Artagnan Shows Himself As Athos and Porthos had foreseen at the expiration of a half hour D Artagnan returned. He had again missed his man who had disappeared as if by enchantment. D Artagnan had run sword in hand through all the neighboring streets but had found nobody resembling the man he sought for. Then he came back to the point where perhaps he ought to have begun and that was to knock at the door against which the stranger had leaned but this proved useless--for though he knocked ten or twelve times in succession no one answered and some of the neighbors who put their noses out of their windows or were brought to their doors by the noise had assured him that that house all the openings of which were tightly closed had not been inhabited for six months. While D Artagnan was running through the streets and knocking at doors Aramis had joined his companions so that on returning him D Artagnan found the reunion complete. Well cried the three Musketeers all together on seeing D Artagnan enter with his brow covered with perspiration and his countenance upset with anger. Well cried he throwing his sword upon the bed this man must be the devil in person he has disappeared like a phantom like a shade like a specter. Do you believe in apparitions asked Athos of Porthos. I never believe in anything I have not seen and as I never have seen apparitions I don t believe in them. The Bible said Aramis make our belief in them a law the ghost of Samuel appeared to Saul and it is an article of faith that I should be very sorry to see any doubt thrown upon Porthos. At all events man or devil body or shadow illusion or reality this man is born for my damnation for his flight has caused us to miss a glorious affair gentlemen--an affair by which there were a hundred pistoles and perhaps more to be gained. How is that cried Porthos and Aramis in a breath. As to Athos faithful to his system of reticence he contented himself with .
