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"It is no idea on my part, but an established truth," replied Corchuelo; "and if you wish me to prove it to you by experiment, you have
swords
there, and it is a good opportunity; I have a steady hand and a strong arm, and these joined with my resolution, which is not small, will make you confess that I am not mistaken.
"We shall soon see," replied Corchuelo, and getting off his ass briskly, he drew out furiously one of the
swords
the licentiate carried on his beast.
The bride showed no signs of displeasure at the deception; on the contrary, hearing them say that the marriage, being fraudulent, would not be valid, she said that she confirmed it afresh, whence they all concluded that the affair had been planned by agreement and understanding between the pair, whereat Camacho and his supporters were so mortified that they proceeded to revenge themselves by violence, and a great number of them drawing their
swords
attacked Basilio, in whose protection as many more
swords
were in an instant unsheathed, while Don Quixote taking the lead on horseback, with his lance over his arm and well covered with his shield, made all give way before him.
But so deep an impression had the rejection of Quiteria made on Camacho's mind that it banished her at once from his thoughts; and so the counsels of the priest, who was a wise and kindly disposed man, prevailed with him, and by their means he and his partisans were pacified and tranquillised, and to prove it put up their
swords
again, inveighing against the pliancy of Quiteria rather than the craftiness of Basilio; Camacho maintaining that, if Quiteria as a maiden had such a love for Basilio, she would have loved him too as a married woman, and that he ought to thank heaven more for having taken her than for having given her.
It would be a nice business indeed if all these illustrious cities were to take huff and revenge themselves and go about perpetually making trombones of their
swords
in every petty quarrel!
There are four things for which sensible men and well-ordered States ought to take up arms, draw their swords, and risk their persons, lives, and properties.
In the midst marched Sancho with his staff, as fine a sight as one could wish to see, and but a few streets of the town had been traversed when they heard a noise as of a clashing of
swords.
He sat up in bed and remained listening intently to try if he could make out what could be the cause of so great an uproar; not only, however, was he unable to discover what it was, but as countless drums and trumpets now helped to swell the din of the bells and shouts, he was more puzzled than ever, and filled with fear and terror; and getting up he put on a pair of slippers because of the dampness of the floor, and without throwing a dressing gown or anything of the kind over him he rushed out of the door of his room, just in time to see approaching along a corridor a band of more than twenty persons with lighted torches and naked
swords
in their hands, all shouting out, "To arms, to arms, senor governor, to arms!
There he lay like a tortoise enclosed in its shell, or a side of bacon between two kneading-troughs, or a boat bottom up on the beach; nor did the gang of jokers feel any compassion for him when they saw him down; so far from that, extinguishing their torches they began to shout afresh and to renew the calls to arms with such energy, trampling on poor Sancho, and slashing at him over the shield with their
swords
in such a way that, if he had not gathered himself together and made himself small and drawn in his head between the shields, it would have fared badly with the poor governor, as, squeezed into that narrow compass, he lay, sweating and sweating again, and commending himself with all his heart to God to deliver him from his present peril.
'"Quit this room," said both men together, grasping their
swords.
All the time that he had appeared so indifferent to what was going on, he had been looking slily about for some missile or weapon of defence, and at the very instant when the
swords
were drawn, he espied, standing in the chimney- corner, an old basket-hilted rapier in a rusty scabbard.
'The noise of the combat was terrific; each of the three combatants swearing like troopers, and their
swords
clashing with as much noise as if all the knives and steels in Newport market were rattling together, at the same time.
There were, besides, apes and peacocks and jugglers, new ones every day, together with dancers on the slack rope, and wonderful packing-cases from Calcutta, out of which he was allowed to choose ivory-handled pistols and little gold-hilted
swords
with seed-pearls set in a groove along the middle, and running musically up and down as he waved the blade round his head.
At a wave of his hand the escort, wheeling, plunged through the camp in line, driving the light ash of the fires up in clouds, slashing the donkeys with the flat of their
swords
until they stampeded, and carrying away the frail brown tents on the butts of their reversed lances.
Loose, half-drunk, imposing, the king’s Musketeers, or rather M. de Treville’s, spread themselves about in the cabarets, in the public walks, and the public sports, shouting, twisting their mustaches, clanking their swords, and taking great pleasure in annoying the Guards of the cardinal whenever they could fall in with them; then drawing in the open streets, as if it were the best of all possible sports; sometimes killed, but sure in that case to be both wept and avenged; often killing others, but then certain of not rotting in prison, M. de Treville being there to claim them.
These three others fenced against him with their agile
swords.
They stamped upon the carpet with their feet; they bit their lips till the blood came, and grasped the hilts of their
swords
with all their might.
But we were not captured by fair means; and before we had time to draw our swords, two of our party were dead, and Athos, grievously wounded, was very little better.
"I waited your orders," said d’Artagnan, crossing
swords.
"Sheathe your swords, gentlemen, sheathe your swords!"
The Musketeers saluted Bicarat with their swords, and returned them to their sheaths.
They then rang the bell, and carrying away four
swords
out of five, they took their road, intoxicated with joy, toward the hotel of M. de Treville.
And that is that their
swords
may never leave their scabbards but in your majesty’s service.
So the two
swords
were crossed close to the hilts, and as d’Artagnan stood firm, it was his adversary who made the retreating step; but d’Artagnan seized the moment at which, in this movement, the sword of Bernajoux deviated from the line.
But at this sort of work, many doublets must be slashed and many
swords
broken.
"A moment," cried d’Artagnan, making them a sign to replace in the scabbard their half-drawn
swords.
At this moment the four Guards appeared at the door of the antechamber, but seeing four Musketeers standing, and their
swords
by their sides, they hesitated about going farther.
Then those who dwelt in Bonacieux’s unfortunate house, together with the nearest neighbors, heard loud cries, stamping of feet, clashing of swords, and breaking of furniture.
Bonacieux, throwing herself between the combatants and seizing the
swords
with her hands.
That little stout man, short and elderly, that sort of lackey, dressed in dark clothes, treated without ceremony by the men wearing
swords
who composed the escort, was Bonacieux himself.
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