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But all at once a shadow appeared in the darkness the outline of which was familiar to d’Artagnan, and a well-known voice said, "Monsieur, I have brought your cloak; it is chilly this evening."
A large cloak was spread at the stern; the officer requested her to sit down upon this cloak, and placed himself beside her.
He said nothing; he only girded on his sword, wrapped himself in his cloak, and went straight to Buckingham Palace.
"Laporte," said the duke, in a dying voice, "Laporte, do you come from her?""Yes, monseigneur," replied the faithful cloak bearer of Anne of Austria, "but too late, perhaps."
At the moment he passed through the gateway into the street, the wind blew open the cloak in which he was wrapped, although it was in the month of August, and lifted his hat, which the traveler seized with his hand the moment it had left his head, pulling it eagerly over his eyes.
I recognized him when the wind blew upon his cloak."
"You are sure it is not he?" said she."Yes, yes, very sure!""Perhaps you did not see well.""Oh, if I were to see the plume of his hat, the end of his cloak, I should know HIM!"Milady was dressing herself all the time.
Athos then arose from his chair, girded on his sword, enveloped himself in his cloak, and left the hotel.
In a quarter of an hour he returned, accompanied by a tall man, masked, and wrapped in a large red cloak.
Several times Lord de Winter, Porthos, or Aramis, tried to talk with the man in the red cloak; but to every interrogation which they put to him he bowed, without response.
D’Artagnan took off his hat, and could not be persuaded to make use of his cloak.
Behind d’Artagnan entered Porthos, Aramis, Lord de Winter, and the man in the red cloak.
And the man in the red cloak came forward in his turn.
"Ask that woman," said the man in the red cloak, "for you may plainly see she knows me!""The executioner of Lille, the executioner of Lille!" cried Milady, a prey to insensate terror, and clinging with her hands to the wall to avoid falling.
Every one drew back, and the man in the red cloak remained standing alone in the middle of the room.
"The executioner may kill, without being on that account an assassin," said the man in the red cloak, rapping upon his immense sword.
The executioner then took off his red cloak, spread it upon the ground, laid the body in it, threw in the head, tied all up by the four corners, lifted it on his back, and entered the boat again.
Yet he was so proud and had such a grand manner of talking, that no one dared to offer him a cloak or a meal.
Under this same cloak he assailed Africa, he came down on Italy, he has finally attacked France; and thus his achievements and designs have always been great, and have kept the minds of his people in suspense and admiration and occupied with the issue of them.
Miss Morstan was muffled in a dark cloak, and her sensitive face was composed, but pale.
To the jacket he added a short cloak, which scarcely reached half way down his thigh; it was of crimson cloth, though a good deal soiled, lined with bright yellow; and as he could transfer it from one shoulder to the other, or at his pleasure draw it all around him, its width, contrasted with its want of longitude, formed a fantastic piece of drapery.
A second squire held aloft his master's lance, from the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole, or streamer, bearing a cross of the same form with that embroidered upon his cloak.
Behind his seat was hung a scarlet cloth cloak lined with fur, and a cap of the same materials richly embroidered, which completed the dress of the opulent landholder when he chose to go forth.
A cloak or mantle of coarse black serge, enveloped his whole body.
It was in shape something like the cloak of a modern hussar, having similar flaps for covering the arms, and was called a "Sclaveyn", or "Sclavonian".
The Jew's dress, which appeared to have suffered considerably from the storm, was a plain russet cloak of many folds, covering a dark purple tunic.
No sooner had they reached the mules, than the Jew, with hasty and trembling hands, secured behind the saddle a small bag of blue buckram, which he took from under his cloak, containing, as he muttered,"a change of raiment--only a change of raiment."
fur tippet,) the richness of his cloak, lined with the most costly sables, his maroquin boots and golden spurs, together with the grace with which he managed his palfrey, were sufficient to merit clamorous applause.
The catastrophe was prevented by the clown Wamba, who, springing betwixt his master and Isaac, and exclaiming, in answer to the Prince's defiance,"Marry, that will I!"opposed to the beard of the Jew a shield of brawn, which he plucked from beneath his cloak, and with which, doubtless, he had furnished himself, lest the tournament should have proved longer than his appetite could endure abstinence.
The Disinherited Knight refused all other assistance save that of his own squire, or rather yeoman--a clownish-looking man, who, wrapt in a cloak of dark-coloured felt, and having his head and face half-buried in a Norman bonnet made of black fur, seemed to affect the incognito as much as his master.
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