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THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 54 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 54 The Friends of M. Fouquet The King had returned to Paris and with him d Artagnan who in twenty-four hours having made with the greatest care all possible inquiries at Belle-Isle had learned nothing of the secret so well kept by the heavy rock of Locmaria which had fallen on the heroic Porthos. The captain of the Musketeers only knew what those two valiant men - what these two friends whose defence he had so nobly taken up whose lives he had so earnestly endeavored to save - aided by three faithful Bretons had accomplished against a whole army. He had been able to see launched on the neighboring heath the human remains which had stained with blood the stones scattered among the flowering broom. He learned also that a boat had been seen far out at sea and that like a bird of prey a royal vessel had pursued overtaken and devoured this poor little bird which was flying with rapid wings. But there d Artagnan s certainties ended. The field of conjectures was thrown open at this boundary. Now what could he conjecture The vessel had not returned. It is true that a brisk wind had prevailed for three days but the corvette was known to be a good sailor and solid in its timbers it could not fear gales of wind and it ought according to the calculation of d Artagnan to have either returned to Brest or come back to the mouth of the Loire. Such was the news ambiguous it is true but in some degree reassuring to him personally which d Artagnan brought to Louis XIV when the King followed by all the court returned to Paris. Louis satisfied with his success- Louis more mild and more affable since he felt himself more powerful- had not ceased for an instant to ride close to the carriage door of Mademoiselle de la Valliere. Everybody had been anxious to amuse the two Queens so as to make them forget this abandonment of the son and the husband. Everything breathed of the future the past was nothing to anybody only that past came like a .