The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas père

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[Illustration: HARDLY HAD THE LADDER BEEN PROPERLY PLACED THAN THE KING BEGAN TO ASCEND.--_Page 155._]

THE WORKS

ALEXANDRE DUMAS

THE VICOMTE DE BRAGELONNE

TEN YEARS LATER

BEING THE COMPLETION OF

"THE THREE MUSKETEERS" AND "TWENTY YEARS AFTER"

_PART II_

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_Copiously Illustrated with elegant Pen and Ink and Wood Engravings, specially drawn for this edition by eminent French and American Artists._

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COMPLETE IN NINE VOLUMES

VOLUME FOUR

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NEW YORK PETER FENELON COLLIER, PUBLISHER. 1893

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CONTENTS.

THE VICOMTE DE BRAGELONNE.

(PART II.)

I. Showing what neither the Naiad nor Dryad had anticipated 5

II. The new General of the Jesuits 9

III. The Storm 14

IV. The Shower of Rain 18

V. Toby 25

VI. Madame's four Chances 29

VII. The Lottery 33

VIII. Malaga 37

IX. A Letter from M. de Baisemeaux 44

X. In which the Reader will be delighted to find that Porthos has lost nothing of his Strength 46

XI. The Rat and the Cheese 55

XII. Planchet's Country-House 59

XIII. Showing what could be seen from Planchet's House 62

XIV. How Porthos, Truechen, and Planchet parted with each other on friendly terms, thanks to D'Artagnan 65

XV. The Presentation of Porthos at Court 67

XVI. Explanations 69