THE THREE MUSKERTEERS ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 10 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 10 10. A Mousetrap In The Seventeenth Century The invention of the mousetrap does not date from our days as soon as societies in forming had invented any kind of police that police invented mousetraps. As perhaps our readers are not familiar with the slang of the Rue de Jerusalem and as it is fifteen years since we applied this word for the first time to this thing allow us to explain to them what is a mousetrap. When in a house of whatever kind it may be an individual suspected of any crime is arrested the arrest is held secret. Four or five men are placed in ambuscade in the first room. The door is opened to all who knock. It is closed after them and they are arrested so that at the end of two or three days they have in their power almost all the habitues of the establishment. And that is a mousetrap. The apartment of M. Bonacieux then became a mousetrap and whoever appeared there was taken and interrogated by the cardinal s people. It must be observed that as a separate passage led to the first floor in which D Artagnan lodged those who called on him were exempted from this detention. Besides nobody came thither but the three Musketeers they had all been engaged in earnest search and inquiries but had discovered nothing. Athos had even gone so far as to question M. de Treville--a thing which considering the habitual reticence of the worthy Musketeer had very much astonished his captain. But M. de Treville knew nothing except that the last time he had seen the cardinal the king and the queen the cardinal looked very thoughtful the king uneasy and the redness of the queen s eyes donated that she had been sleepless or tearful. But this last circumstance was not striking as the queen since her marriage had slept badly and wept much. M. de Treville requested Athos whatever might happen to be observant of his duty to the king but particularly to the queen begging him to convey his desires to his comrades. As to D Artagnan
