THE THREE MUSKERTEERS ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 51 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 51 51. Officer Meanwhile the cardinal looked anxiously for news from England but no news arrived that was not annoying and threatening. Although La Rochelle was invested however certain success might appear--thanks to the precautions taken and above all to the dyke which prevented the entrance of any vessel into the besieged city--the blockade might last a long time yet. This was a great affront to the king s army and a great inconvenience to the cardinal who had no longer it is true to embroil Louis XIII with Anne of Austria--for that affair was over--but he had to adjust matters for M. de Bassompierre who was embroiled with the Duc d Angouleme. As to Monsieur who had begun the siege he left to the cardinal the task of finishing it. The city notwithstanding the incredible perseverance of its mayor had attempted a sort of mutiny for a surrender the mayor had hanged the mutineers. This execution quieted the ill- disposed who resolved to allow themselves to die of hunger--this death always appearing to them more slow and less sure than strangulation. On their side from time to time the besiegers took the messengers which the Rochellais sent to Buckingham or the spies which Buckingham sent to the Rochellais. In one case or the other the trial was soon over. The cardinal pronounced the single word Hanged The king was invited to come and see the hanging. He came languidly placing himself in a good situation to see all the details. This amused him sometimes a little and made him endure the siege with patience but it did not prevent his getting very tired or from talking at every moment of returning to Paris--so that if the messengers and the spies had failed his Eminence notwithstanding all his inventiveness would have found himself much embarrassed. Nevertheless time passed on and the Rochellais did not surrender. The last spy that was taken was the bearer of a letter. This letter told Buckingham that the city was at an .
