tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC – THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 22

THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 22 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 22 How the Countersign Was Respected at the Bastille Fouquet tore along as fast as his horses could drag him. On the way he trembled with horror at the idea of what had just been revealed to him. What must have been he thought the youth of those extraordinary men who even as age is stealing fast upon them still are able to conceive such plans and to carry them out without flinching At one moment he asked himself whether all that Aramis had just been recounting to him was not a dream only and whether the fable itself was not the snare so that when he should arrive at the Bastille he might find an order of arrest which would send him to join the dethroned King. Strongly impressed with this idea he gave certain sealed orders on his route while fresh horses were harnessed to his carriage. These orders were addressed to M. d Artagnan and to certain others whose fidelity to the King was far above suspicion. In this way said Fouquet to himself prisoner or not I shall have performed the duty which I owe to my honor. The orders will not reach them until after my return if I should return free and consequently they will not have been unsealed. I shall then take them back again. If I am delayed it will be because some misfortune will have befallen me and in that case assistance will be sent for me as well as for the King. Prepared in this manner the superintendent arrived at the Bastille he had travelled at the rate of five leagues and a half an hour. Every circumstance of delay which Aramis had escaped in his visit to the Bastille befell Fouquet. It was in vain that he gave his name in vain that he endeavored to be recognized he could not succeed in obtaining an entrance. By dint of entreaties threats and commands he succeeded in inducing a sentinel to speak to one of the subalterns who went and told the major. As for the governor they did not even dare disturb him. Fouquet sat in his carriage at the outer gate of the fortress