Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas père
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"No, nothing, monsieur."
"Deuce take the Olympic pleasures! They must cost your master too dear, for widows and orphans ---- " "They all had pensions, monsieur; a tenth of monseigneur's revenue was spent in that way." "Then pass on to Friday," said D'Artagnan. "Friday, noble and warlike pleasures. We hunt, we fence, we dress falcons and break horses. Then, Saturday is the day for intellectual pleasures: we adorn our minds; we look at monseigneur's pictures and statues; we write, even, and trace plans: and then we fire monseigneur's cannon." "You draw plans, and fire cannon?" "Yes, monsieur." "Why, my friend," said D'Artagnan, "M. du Vallon, in truth, possesses the most subtle and amiable mind that I know. But there is one kind of pleasure you have forgotten, it appears to me." "What is that, monsieur?" asked Mousqueton, with anxiety. "The material pleasures." Mousqueton colored. "What do you mean by that, monsieur?" |
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