1 After the siege I shall enter the house of the Lazarists.
2 The siege of La Rochelle is about to be resumed, monseigneur.
3 "I cannot take you, however, to the siege of La Rochelle," aid d'Artagnan.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT 4 The political plans of the cardinal when he undertook this siege were extensive.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 5 As to Monsieur, who had begun the siege, he left to the cardinal the task of finishing it.
6 The king entertained great regard for my father, who had fallen at the siege of Arras, and the uniform was granted.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS 7 On their part the Musketeers, who had not much to do with the siege, were not under very strict orders and led a joyous life.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT 8 In eight days the campaign would open, and he would be compelled to leave Paris; d'Artagnan had no time for a prolonged love siege.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS 9 The cardinal was left free to carry on the siege, without having, at least at the present, anything to fear on the part of the English.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT 10 The result was that even if the king's troops remained quietly in their camp, it was evident that some day or other, Buckingham, who only continued in the Isle from obstinacy, would be obliged to raise the siege.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT 11 After the most disheartening news of the king's health, a report of his convalescence began to prevail in the camp; and as he was very anxious to be in person at the siege, it was said that as soon as he could mount a horse he would set forward.
12 It is, then, interesting and even necessary that we should say a few words about it, particularly as many details of this siege are connected in too important a manner with the story we have undertaken to relate to allow us to pass it over in silence.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 13 I shall serve under the eye of your Eminence, and if I have the good fortune to conduct myself at the siege in such a manner as merits your attention, then I shall at least leave behind me some brilliant action to justify the protection with which you honor me.
14 This event had hastened the resolutions of the cardinal; and till the king and he could take the command of the siege of La Rochelle, which was determined, he had sent Monsieur to direct the first operations, and had ordered all the troops he could dispose of to march toward the theater of war.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 15 As it is not our intention to give a journal of the siege, but on the contrary only to describe such of the events of it as are connected with the story we are relating, we will content ourselves with saying in two words that the expedition succeeded, to the great astonishment of the king and the great glory of the cardinal.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT 16 This amused him sometimes a little, and made him endure the siege with patience; but it did not prevent his getting very tired, or from talking at every moment of returning to Paris--so that if the messengers and the spies had failed, his Eminence, notwithstanding all his inventiveness, would have found himself much embarrassed.