'Your Majesty will remember having seen, when playing in Fontainebleu Park or in the courtyards of Versailles Palace, the sky suddenly overclouded, and having heard the sound of thunder?'
'Yes, certainly.'
'Well, that thunder-clap, however much your Majesty wished to go on playing, said to you, "Go indoors, Sire; you must."'
'Certainly, Monsieur; but then I have been told that the thunder is the voice of God.'
'Well, Sire;' said d'Artagnan; 'listen to the clamour of the people, and you will see that it is very much like the noise of the thunder.'
Dumas' political sympathies in his novels are, as the editor of this edition details, incoherent, esp. compared to his political sympathies in real life. Actually, they are consistent with always being For the side with the best costumes.
ISBN: 0-19-283074-0
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