THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 39 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 MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 39 How the King Louis XIV Played His Little Part As Fouquet was alighting from his carriage to enter the Castle of Nantes a man of mean appearance went up to him with marks of the greatest respect and gave him a letter. D Artagnan endeavored to prevent this man from speaking to Fouquet and pushed him away but the message had been given to the superintendent. Fouquet opened the letter and read it and instantly a vague terror which d Artagnan did not fail to penetrate was expressed by the countenance of the first minister. He put the paper into the portfolio which he had under his arm and passed on towards the King s apartments. D Artagnan as he went up behind Fouquet through the small windows made at every landing of the donjon stairs saw the man who had delivered the note look around him on the place and make signs to several persons who disappeared into the adjacent streets after having themselves repeated the signals made by the person we have named. Fouquet was made to wait for a moment upon the terrace of which we have spoken - a terrace which abutted on the little corridor at the end of which the cabinet of the King was located. Here d Artagnan passed on before the superintendent whom till that time he had respectfully accompanied and entered the royal cabinet. Well asked Louis XIV who on perceiving him threw on the table covered with papers a large green cloth. The order is executed Sire. And Fouquet Monsieur the Superintendent follows me replied d Artagnan. In ten minutes let him be introduced said the King dismissing d Artagnan with a gesture. The latter retired but had scarcely reached the corridor at the extremity of which Fouquet was waiting for him when he was recalled by the King s bell. Did he not appear astonished asked the King. Who Sire Fouquet repeated the King without saying Monsieur a trifle which confirmed the captain of the Musketeers in his suspicions. No Sire replied he. That s well and a .
