THE THREE MUSKERTEERS ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 52 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 52 52. Captivity The First Day Let us return to Milady whom a glance thrown upon the coast of France has made us lose sight of for an instant. We shall find her still in the despairing attitude in which we left her plunged in an abyss of dismal reflection--a dark hell at the gate of which she has almost left hope behind because for the first time she doubts for the first time she fears. On two occasions her fortune has failed her on two occasions she has found herself discovered and betrayed and on these two occasions it was to one fatal genius sent doubtlessly by the Lord to combat her that she has succumbed. D Artagnan has conquered her--her that invincible power of evil. He has deceived her in her love humbled her in her pride thwarted her in her ambition and now he ruins her fortune deprives her of liberty and even threatens her life. Still more he has lifted the corner of her mask--that shield with which she covered herself and which rendered her so strong. D Artagnan has turned aside from Buckingham whom she hates as she hates everyone she has loved the tempest with which Richelieu threatened him in the person of the queen. D Artagnan had passed himself upon her as De Wardes for whom she had conceived one of those tigerlike fancies common to women of her character. D Artagnan knows that terrible secret which she has sworn no one shall know without dying. In short at the moment in which she has just obtained from Richelieu a carte blanche by the means of which she is about to take vengeance on her enemy this precious paper is torn from her hands and it is D Artagnan who holds her prisoner and is about to send her to some filthy Botany Bay some infamous Tyburn of the Indian Ocean. All this she owes to D Artagnan without doubt. From whom can come so many disgraces heaped upon her head if not from him He alone could have transmitted to Lord de Winter all these frightful secrets which he has discovered one after .
