Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas - Kirjat - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781545081471 - perjantai 11. elokuuta 2017
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Twenty Years After

Alexandre Dumas

Twenty Years After

Any one who happened at that moment to contemplate that red simar-the gorgeous robe of office-and the rich lace, or who gazed on that pale brow, bent in anxious meditation, might, in the solitude of that apartment, combined with the silence of the ante-chambers and the measured paces of the guards upon the landing-place, have fancied that the shade of Cardinal Richelieu lingered still in his accustomed haunt. It was, alas! the ghost of former greatness. France enfeebled, the authority of her sovereign contemned, her nobles returning to their former turbulence and insolence, her enemies within her frontiers-all proved the great Richelieu no longer in existence. In truth, that the red simar which occupied the wonted place was his no longer, was still more strikingly obvious from the isolation which seemed, as we have observed, more appropriate to a phantom than a living creature-from the corridors deserted by courtiers, and courts crowded with guards-from that spirit of bitter ridicule, which, arising from the streets below, penetrated through the very casements of the room, which resounded with the murmurs of a whole city leagued against the minister; as well as from the distant and incessant sounds of guns firing-let off, happily, without other end or aim, except to show to the guards, the Swiss troops and the military who surrounded the Palais Royal, that the people were possessed of arms.

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Julkaisupäivämäärä perjantai 11. elokuuta 2017
ISBN13 9781545081471
Tuottaja Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Sivujen määrä 754
Mitta 152 × 229 × 38 mm   ·   988 g
Kieli English  

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