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4,390 | 1257_chapter_45:_a_conjugal_scene | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Cardinal comes back into the room to find Porthos and Aramis playing dice. He asks where Athos has gone, and is told that he has gone to secure the roads. The Cardinal, Porthos, and Aramis saddle their horses and prepare to return to camp. Meanwhile, Athos doubles back, hides behind a hedge, and waits until the Car... | [
"45 A CONJUGAL SCENE",
"As Athos had foreseen, it was not long before the cardinal came down. He\nopened the door of the room in which the Musketeers were, and found\nPorthos playing an earnest game of dice with Aramis. He cast a rapid\nglance around the room, and perceived that one of his men was missing.",
"\... |
4,391 | 1257_chapter_46:_the_bastion_saint_gervais | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan arrives at his friends' lodging, grumbling that his friends better have a good reason for taking him from his much-needed rest. Athos asks Aramis if the Parpaillot inn was crowded the other day. Aramis replies that it was rather empty. Athos says they should go there since their current room has very thin wa... | [
"46 THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS",
"On arriving at the lodgings of his three friends, d'Artagnan found them\nassembled in the same chamber. Athos was meditating; Porthos was\ntwisting his mustache; Aramis was saying his prayers in a charming\nlittle Book of Hours, bound in blue velvet.",
"\"Pardieu, gentlemen,\" s... |
4,392 | 1257_chapter_47:_the_council_of_the_musketeers | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the bastion the four friends find twelve guns among the dead soldiers. They set to work loading the guns while Grimaud lays out the breakfast. They sit down and begin filling D'Artagnan in on the events of the previous night. D'Artagnan is terrified when he learns that Milady asked the Cardinal to have him killed. G... | [
"47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS",
"As Athos had foreseen, the bastion was only occupied by a dozen corpses,\nFrench and Rochellais.",
"\"Gentlemen,\" said Athos, who had assumed the command of the expedition,\n\"while Grimaud spreads the table, let us begin by collecting the guns\nand cartridges together. We ... |
4,393 | 1257_chapter_48:_a_family_affair | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That evening the four have three things to decide: what to say to de Winter, what to say to the lady in Tours, and which lackeys should perform which task. Athos boasts of Grimaud's discretion, Porthos of Mousqueton's strength, Aramis claims that Bazin is a true gentleman, and D'Artagnan talks of Planchet's bravery. At... | [
"48 A FAMILY AFFAIR",
"Athos had invented the phrase, family affair. A family affair was not\nsubject to the investigation of the cardinal; a family affair concerned\nnobody. People might employ themselves in a family affair before all the\nworld. Therefore Athos had invented the phrase, family affair.",
"Arami... |
4,394 | 1257_chapter_49:_fatality | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Milady is so roaring mad to have been insulted by D'Artagnan and Athos that she doesn't want to leave France. The weather is pretty bad, however, that there is no way her ship could land. Milady calculates that it would be better for her to go straight to England. As she arrives, she compares herself to Judith, a woman... | [
"49 FATALITY",
"Meantime Milady, drunk with passion, roaring on the deck like a lioness\nthat has been embarked, had been tempted to throw herself into the sea\nthat she might regain the coast, for she could not get rid of the\nthought that she had been insulted by d'Artagnan, threatened by Athos,\nand that she h... |
4,395 | 1257_chapter_50:_chat_between_brother_and_sister | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Milady is confused about what happened. She is stunned that the Lord de Winter discovered her arrival and was prepared to take her prisoner. She assumes, however, that her imprisonment is for a past crime and not in anticipation of a future one. Lord de Winter asks for her reasons for coming to England. She tells her b... | [
"50 CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER",
"During the time which Lord de Winter took to shut the door, close a\nshutter, and draw a chair near to his sister-in-law's fauteuil, Milady,\nanxiously thoughtful, plunged her glance into the depths of possibility,\nand discovered all the plan, of which she could not even ob... |
4,396 | 1257_chapter_51:_officer | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The siege of La Rochelle continues. Nothing comes in or out of the city. The Rochellais place all of their hope in Buckingham, believing he will liberate them. The Cardinal waits anxiously for news that Buckingham is incapacitated and will not be sending La Rochelle any help. There was always the question of simply sto... | [
"51 OFFICER",
"Meanwhile, the cardinal looked anxiously for news from England; but no\nnews arrived that was not annoying and threatening.",
"Although La Rochelle was invested, however certain success might\nappear--thanks to the precautions taken, and above all to the dyke,\nwhich prevented the entrance of any... |
4,397 | 1257_chapter_52:_captivity:_the_first_day | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Milady remains contemplative and angry. She blames D'Artagnan for everything. Finally, she stops meditating and gets up to fix her hair. She looks in the mirror and reminds herself that she is beautiful. She hears footsteps and realizes that her dinner is being served. Quickly, she throws herself down into an armchair ... | [
"52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY",
"Let us return to Milady, whom a glance thrown upon the coast of France\nhas made us lose sight of for an instant.",
"We shall find her still in the despairing attitude in which we left her,\nplunged in an abyss of dismal reflection--a dark hell at the gate of\nwhich she has almos... |
4,398 | 1257_chapter_53:_captivity:_the_second_day | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Milady dreams that D'Artagnan is being executed. In the morning, she stays in bed when Felton walks into the corridor outside her room. A serving woman walks in to attend to Milady, who looks pale and complains of a fever. The woman asks if Milady wants a physician. Milady replies that it would be pointless. Milady con... | [
"53 CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY",
"Milady dreamed that she at length had d'Artagnan in her power, that she\nwas present at his execution; and it was the sight of his odious blood,\nflowing beneath the ax of the headsman, which spread that charming smile\nupon her lips.",
"She slept as a prisoner sleeps, rocked by... |
4,399 | 1257_chapter_54:_captivity:_the_third_day | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Milady knows that she has to get Felton alone, and that she has to talk to him. After all, her voice is her best asset. With Lord de Winter, she will play it cool and calm, letting his disdain for her work in her favor against Felton. Lord de Winter comes in the next day and expresses surprise that Milady has now switc... | [
"54 CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY",
"Felton had fallen; but there was still another step to be taken. He must\nbe retained, or rather he must be left quite alone; and Milady but\nobscurely perceived the means which could lead to this result.",
"Still more must be done. He must be made to speak, in order that he\nmig... |
4,400 | 1257_chapter_55:_captivity:_the_fourth_day | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Felton enters the room, he finds Milady about to hang herself. He tells her not to commit suicide. Milady questions his motives and his adherence to his faith. Her beauty, her grief, and her threats of suicide--it's all too much for Felton and he's overcome. She continues to speak in enigmas until, too curious, he... | [
"55 CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY",
"The next day, when Felton entered Milady's apartment he found her\nstanding, mounted upon a chair, holding in her hands a cord made by\nmeans of torn cambric handkerchiefs, twisted into a kind of rope one\nwith another, and tied at the ends. At the noise Felton made in\nentering, ... |
4,401 | 1257_chapter_56:_captivity:_the_fifth_day | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Milady realizes that Felton, being a deeply religious man, is immune to ordinary seductions. She really has to bring her A-game tonight! She furthermore realizes that she has only two days left to successfully escape, and although she knows she can likely work her way back from the colonies, she can't bear the idea of ... | [
"56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY",
"Milady had however achieved a half-triumph, and success doubled her\nforces.",
"It was not difficult to conquer, as she had hitherto done, men prompt to\nlet themselves be seduced, and whom the gallant education of a court led\nquickly into her net. Milady was handsome enough not... |
4,402 | 1257_chapter_57:_means_for_classical_tragedy | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Milady milks the moment before continuing her story. She says that her captor entered the room with an executioner who branded her with the fleur-de-lis. She ignores Felton's demands to know the identity of her captor as she bares the brand on her shoulder. Felton is completely enthralled. He falls to her feet, begging... | [
"57 MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY",
"After a moment of silence employed by Milady in observing the young man\nwho listened to her, Milady continued her recital.",
"\"It was nearly three days since I had eaten or drunk anything. I\nsuffered frightful torments. At times there passed before me clouds\nwhich pressed ... |
4,403 | 1257_chapter_58:_escape | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Milady's wound is not dangerous, but she pretends to be weak. She waits patiently for Felton to come to her, but is disappointed when she learns that he has been sent away. Milady notices that a piece of wood has been nailed over the grating to her room. No one can spy on her anymore, which is great news for her, becau... | [
"58 ESCAPE",
"As Lord de Winter had thought, Milady's wound was not dangerous. So soon\nas she was left alone with the woman whom the baron had summoned to her\nassistance she opened her eyes.",
"It was, however, necessary to affect weakness and pain--not a very\ndifficult task for so finished an actress as Mil... |
4,404 | 1257_chapter_59:_what_took_place_at_portsmouth,_august_23,_1628 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Felton arrives in Portsmouth, recalling all the terrors Buckingham has perpetrated against the Puritans. To these crimes he adds the story of Milady, and works himself up into a complete fanaticism. When he gets to the palace, he uses Lord de Winter's name to pass all the guards. Another man reaches the palace at the s... | [
"59 WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 23, 1628",
"Felton took leave of Milady as a brother about to go for a mere walk\ntakes leave of his sister, kissing her hand.",
"His whole body appeared in its ordinary state of calmness, only an\nunusual fire beamed from his eyes, like the effects of a fever; his brow\... |
4,405 | 1257_chapter_60:_in_france | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | King Charles I of England tries to conceal the death of the Duke of Buckingham from the Rochellais for as long as possible. He orders the ports closed as soon as the death was announced, but two ships manages to leave before then--the first, bearing Milady's flag. Meanwhile, at camp in La Rochelle, King Louis XIII of F... | [
"60 IN FRANCE",
"The first fear of the King of England, Charles I, on learning of the\ndeath of the duke, was that such terrible news might discourage the\nRochellais; he tried, says Richelieu in his Memoirs, to conceal it from\nthem as long as possible, closing all the ports of his kingdom, and\ncarefully keepin... |
4,406 | 1257_chapter_61:_the_carmelite_convent_at_bethune | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Milady reaches the convent, stopping only to send Cardinal Richelieu a note informing him that the Duke will not be sending reinforcements to La Rochelle. The abbess in charge of the convent meets Milady and the two women a lovely chat. Milady entertains her host with anecdotes from court life, and tries to determine i... | [
"61 THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE",
"Great criminals bear about them a kind of predestination which makes\nthem surmount all obstacles, which makes them escape all dangers, up to\nthe moment which a wearied Providence has marked as the rock of their\nimpious fortunes.",
"It was thus with Milady. She escaped ... |
4,407 | 1257_chapter_62:_two_varieties_of_demons | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The two catch up briefly: Rochefort comes with a message from the Cardinal; Milady recounts her experience at the convent. She reveals that Constance is in the convent, and that D'Artagnan and his friends are soon expected! She wants these men locked up in the Bastille, and can't understand why the Cardinal has such an... | [
"62 TWO VARIETIES OF DEMONS",
"Ah,\" cried Milady and Rochefort together, \"it is you!\"",
"\"Yes, it is I.\"",
"\"And you come?\" asked Milady.",
"\"From La Rochelle; and you?\"",
"\"From England.\"",
"\"Buckingham?\"",
"\"Dead or desperately wounded, as I left without having been able to hear\nanyth... |
4,408 | 1257_chapter_63:_the_drop_of_water | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Constance comes into the room right after Rochefort leaves. Milady smiles happily, telling Constance that the man who just left played his part admirably. Milady spins an intricate lie, telling Constance that this man who was really her brother, who had overpowered the real emissary of the Cardinal. Milady then explain... | [
"63 THE DROP OF WATER",
"Rochefort had scarcely departed when Mme. Bonacieux re-entered. She\nfound Milady with a smiling countenance.",
"\"Well,\" said the young woman, \"what you dreaded has happened. This\nevening, or tomorrow, the cardinal will send someone to take you away.\"",
"\"Who told you that, my d... |
4,409 | 1257_chapter_64:_the_man_in_the_red_cloak | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Athos studies a map of the area and sees that there are four roads leading from Bethune to Armentieres. He calls for the four lackeys. Each is to take a different route to the village: Planchet is given the honor of following the road Milady's carriage was seen to take. The four lackeys are to begin their mission the n... | [
"64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK",
"The despair of Athos had given place to a concentrated grief which only\nrendered more lucid the brilliant mental faculties of that extraordinary\nman.",
"Possessed by one single thought--that of the promise he had made, and of\nthe responsibility he had taken--he retired last to... |
4,410 | 1257_chapter_65:_trial | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We get a classic Gothic novel opening: "It was a dark and stormy night." Athos has to restrain D'Artagnan from going too fast. The friends try to strike up conversation with the man in the red cloak, but he remains reticent. The storm gets worse. The men are approaching the inn where Milady was spotted, when Grimaud ap... | [
"65 TRIAL",
"It was a stormy and dark night; vast clouds covered the heavens,\nconcealing the stars; the moon would not rise till midnight.",
"Occasionally, by the light of a flash of lightning which gleamed along\nthe horizon, the road stretched itself before them, white and solitary;\nthe flash extinct, all r... |
4,411 | 1257_chapter_66:_execution | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter beings with a description of the setting, which can be summed up in one word: sinister. There is a river in front, woods to the right, a broken mill on the left, and along the road are trees like "deformed dwarfs." Mousqueton and Grimaud drag Milady along the road. She offers the two lackeys a thousand pis... | [
"66 EXECUTION",
"It was near midnight; the moon, lessened by its decline, and reddened by\nthe last traces of the storm, arose behind the little town of\nArmentieres, which showed against its pale light the dark outline of its\nhouses, and the skeleton of its high belfry. In front of them the Lys\nrolled its wate... |
4,412 | 1257_chapter_67:_conclusion | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The King is finally obliged to return to La Rochelle. His vacation in Paris is over. He sets off still astonished over the death of Buckingham, and he gloats about it to his wife. As the four friends escort the King, they just look sad. All the time. One day the four friends have stopped for drinks at an inn when a man... | [
"67 CONCLUSION",
"On the sixth of the following month the king, in compliance with the\npromise he had made the cardinal to return to La Rochelle, left his\ncapital still in amazement at the news which began to spread itself of\nBuckingham's assassination.",
"Although warned that the man she had loved so much w... |
4,346 | 1257_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the year 1625, in Gascony, a province of France, a young man named d'Artagnan is taking leave of his father to journey to Paris, where he will seek out the prestigious Monsieur de Treville, captain of the King's Musketeers and a childhood friend of d'Artagnan's father. D'Artagnan's father has only three gifts which ... | [
"1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER",
"On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of\nMeung, in which the author of ROMANCE OF THE ROSE was born, appeared to\nbe in as perfect a state of revolution as if the Huguenots had just made\na second La Rochelle of it. Many citizens, seeing... |
4,413 | 1257_chapters_2-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Monsieur de Treville the captain of the King's Musketeers, is a genuine and loyal friend to the king, who in turn thoroughly values Treville's loyalty and devotion. Treville began his career as a brave, loyal young Gascon, one very much like d'Artagnan, and now, as captain of the King's Musketeers, he holds one of the ... | [
"2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE",
"M de Troisville, as his family was still called in Gascony, or M. de\nTreville, as he has ended by styling himself in Paris, had really\ncommenced life as d'Artagnan now did; that is to say, without a sou in\nhis pocket, but with a fund of audacity, shrewdness, and intellig... |
4,350 | 1257_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On his way back to meet Athos, d'Artagnan ponders his situation. If he wounds the already-wounded Athos, he will look bad; yet if he himself is wounded by the already-wounded Athos, he will be doubly disgraced. He searches for a way out of the dilemma. Arriving on time for the duel, he finds that Athos's seconds have n... | [
"5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS",
"D'Artagnan was acquainted with nobody in Paris. He went therefore to his\nappointment with Athos without a second, determined to be satisfied with\nthose his adversary should choose. Besides, his intention was formed to\nmake the brave Musketeer all suitable a... |
4,414 | 1257_chapters_6-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hearing how the three musketeers and d'Artagnan fought with five of the cardinal's guards and left four of them lying on the ground, King Louis calls in Monsieur de Treville for an explanation. The king pretends to be angry, but he is secretly pleased that his musketeers defeated the cardinal's guards. In particular, h... | [
"6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII",
"This affair made a great noise. M. de Treville scolded his Musketeers in\npublic, and congratulated them in private; but as no time was to be lost\nin gaining the king, M. de Treville hastened to report himself at the\nLouvre. It was already too late. The king was closeted with t... |
4,415 | 1257_chapters_8-9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The forty pistoles received from the king are soon spent, and although the musketeers receive an advance on their pay from Treville, they are soon broke. Thus they start enumerating people whom they have entertained in the past in order to be invited to meals. When they are beginning to become desperate, d'Artagnan rec... | [
"8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE",
"In the meantime, the forty pistoles of King Louis XIII, like all other\nthings of this world, after having had a beginning had an end, and after\nthis end our four companions began to be somewhat embarrassed. At first,\nAthos supported the association for a time with his own mean... |
4,416 | 1257_chapters_10-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The term "mousetrap" is explained as being a method whereby the police trap friends and/or associates of a person who has been arrested for political reasons. Here, the authorities have placed four guards at Monsieur Bonacieux's house, and they plan to arrest anyone who knocks. Meanwhile, upstairs, d'Artagnan has remov... | [
"10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY",
"The invention of the mousetrap does not date from our days; as soon as\nsocieties, in forming, had invented any kind of police, that police\ninvented mousetraps.",
"As perhaps our readers are not familiar with the slang of the Rue de\nJerusalem, and as it is fifteen... |
4,417 | 1257_chapters_13-16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We return to the fate of Monsieur Bonacieux, who has been taken to prison and questioned by the authorities about his wife. As it turns out, Bonacieux is much more concerned about his own avarice and safety than he is about his wife. He explains that his only interest in d'Artagnan was that he needed someone who could ... | [
"13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX",
"There was in all this, as may have been observed, one personage\nconcerned, of whom, notwithstanding his precarious position, we have\nappeared to take but very little notice. This personage was M.\nBonacieux, the respectable martyr of the political and amorous intrigues\nwhich entangled... |
4,418 | 1257_chapters_17-19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The king wonders briefly why the cardinal is so insistent that the queen wear the diamond tags, but he nevertheless tells the queen about his plans for the ball and instructs her to wear the diamond tags. On further questioning, the queen learns that the idea of having a ball was the cardinal's idea; furthermore, it wa... | [
"17 BONACIEUX AT HOME",
"It was the second time the cardinal had mentioned these diamond studs to\nthe king. Louis XIII was struck with this insistence, and began to fancy\nthat this recommendation concealed some mystery.",
"More than once the king had been humiliated by the cardinal, whose\npolice, without hav... |
4,419 | 1257_chapters_20-22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At 2 a.m., the four adventurers, accompanied by their armed servants, ride out of Paris. At the first inn where they stop, Porthos gets into an argument with a stranger; his companions are anxious to be on their way, so they tell him to "kill that man and rejoin us as soon as you can." They continue on their journey an... | [
"20 THE JOURNEY",
"At two o'clock in the morning, our four adventurers left Paris by the\nBarriere St. Denis. As long as it was dark they remained silent; in\nspite of themselves they submitted to the influence of the obscurity,\nand apprehended ambushes on every side.",
"With the first rays of day their tongue... |
4,420 | 1257_chapters_23-24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Arriving home, d'Artagnan learns from Planchet that a letter has mysteriously appeared. d'Artagnan anxiously opens the letter and discovers that Constance Bonacieux requests a rendezvous with him for ten o'clock that night. Ecstatic, he tells Planchet to meet him at seven that night with two horses . Leaving the apartm... | [
"23 THE RENDEZVOUS",
"D'Artagnan ran home immediately, and although it was three o'clock in\nthe morning and he had some of the worst quarters of Paris to traverse,\nhe met with no misadventure. Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers\nhave a protecting deity.",
"He found the door of his passage open, sprang u... |
4,421 | 1257_chapters_25-27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan decides to tell Treville the entire story of Constance Bonacieux's abduction. Afterward, Treville is certain that the entire matter was conceived by the cardinal. He tells d'Artagnan to leave Paris as soon as possible. When d'Artagnan returns to his apartment, he is accosted by old Bonacieux, who tries to qu... | [
"25 PORTHOS",
"Instead of returning directly home, d'Artagnan alighted at the door of\nM. de Treville, and ran quickly up the stairs. This time he had decided\nto relate all that had passed. M. de Treville would doubtless give him\ngood advice as to the whole affair. Besides, as M. de Treville saw the\nqueen almo... |
4,422 | 1257_chapters_28-29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Athos maintains that everything he told d'Artagnan the night before was only the ramblings of a drunken musketeer; there was no truth to any of it. He also confesses that when he got up that morning, he was somewhat muddle-headed and gambled away his magnificent horse. d'Artagnan is deeply disappointe... | [
"28 THE RETURN",
"D'Artagnan was astounded by the terrible confidence of Athos; yet many\nthings appeared very obscure to him in this half revelation. In the\nfirst place it had been made by a man quite drunk to one who was half\ndrunk; and yet, in spite of the incertainty which the vapor of three or\nfour bottle... |
4,423 | 1257_chapters_30-33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan follows Milady and hears her tell the coachman to go to Saint-Germain, a neighborhood too distant for him to follow on foot. Therefore, he decides to visit Athos; he tells him about Milady, but Athos is not sympathetic. Athos is cynical about all love affairs; he sarcastically tells d'Artagnan, "Go have an a... | [
"30 D'ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN",
"D'Artagnan followed Milady without being perceived by her. He saw her\nget into her carriage, and heard her order the coachman to drive to St.\nGermain.",
"It was useless to try to keep pace on foot with a carriage drawn by two\npowerful horses. D'Artagnan therefore returned... |
4,424 | 1257_chapters_34-38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Next day, d'Artagnan visits the three musketeers in Athos's apartment and finds them all in vastly different moods. Mousqueton arrives and tells Porthos to return home for a very important matter. Then Bazin comes in and tells Aramis that there is a beggar from Tours waiting to talk to him . Both Porthos and Aramis lea... | [
"34 IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF",
"Since the four friends had been each in search of his equipments, there\nhad been no fixed meeting between them. They dined apart from one\nanother, wherever they might happen to be, or rather where they could.\nDuty likewise on its part took a por... |
4,425 | 1257_chapters_39-40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Planchet brings d'Artagnan two letters, a small one in a simple envelope and a large, imposing one with the cardinal's coat-of-arms on it. The small letter, although unsigned, is from Constance Bonacieux, instructing him to be on a certain road at 7 p.m. The other letter instructs d'Artagnan to be at the cardinal's pal... | [
"39 A VISION",
"At four o'clock the four friends were all assembled with Athos. Their\nanxiety about their outfits had all disappeared, and each countenance\nonly preserved the expression of its own secret disquiet--for behind all\npresent happiness is concealed a fear for the future.",
"Suddenly Planchet enter... |
4,426 | 1257_chapters_41-42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The siege of La Rochelle allows the cardinal an opportunity to fulfill two aims. First, he wants to rid France of its enemies, and second, he wants to take vengeance on a rival. That is, the cardinal was once in love with the queen, Anne of Austria, but she rejected him and accepted the romantic overtures of the duke o... | [
"41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE",
"The Siege of La Rochelle was one of the great political events of the\nreign of Louis XIII, and one of the great military enterprises of the\ncardinal. It is, then, interesting and even necessary that we should say\na few words about it, particularly as many details of this siege a... |
4,427 | 1257_chapters_43-45 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The three musketeers have little to do because they are not yet involved in the siege, so they ride out to a neighboring inn. On the way back, they challenge an approaching rider who, in turn, challenges them with a voice of absolute authority. It is the cardinal. Surprisingly, he knows the names of each of the three m... | [
"43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT",
"Meanwhile the king, who, with more reason than the cardinal, showed his\nhatred for Buckingham, although scarcely arrived was in such a haste to\nmeet the enemy that he commanded every disposition to be made to drive\nthe English from the Isle of Re, and afterward to press the s... |
4,428 | 1257_chapters_46-48 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When the three musketeers meet d'Artagnan, they want to go someplace where they cannot be overhead as they make plans. They decide on an inn, but have no privacy there; they are continually bombarded with questions about d'Artagnan's exploits. When they hear some soldiers talking about a bastion that the enemy has take... | [
"46 THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS",
"On arriving at the lodgings of his three friends, d'Artagnan found them\nassembled in the same chamber. Athos was meditating; Porthos was\ntwisting his mustache; Aramis was saying his prayers in a charming\nlittle Book of Hours, bound in blue velvet.",
"\"Pardieu, gentlemen,\" s... |
4,429 | 1257_chapters_49-51 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Milady's ship is detained by a storm, and when she finally reaches England, Planchet has already warned de Winter of Milady's wicked plans; meanwhile, Planchet is now boarding a ship heading back to France. Therefore, when Milady's ship docks, she is received by an austere English officer who, with utmost politeness, e... | [
"49 FATALITY",
"Meantime Milady, drunk with passion, roaring on the deck like a lioness\nthat has been embarked, had been tempted to throw herself into the sea\nthat she might regain the coast, for she could not get rid of the\nthought that she had been insulted by d'Artagnan, threatened by Athos,\nand that she h... |
4,430 | 1257_chapters_52-57 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Milady spends her first day in captivity brooding on her fierce hatred for d'Artagnan, Buckingham, and Constance Bonacieux. She wishes them all dead. Her eyes glow with murderous hatred, and she makes elaborate plans for revenge against them. When she finally calms herself, she decides that she should probably study th... | [
"52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY",
"Let us return to Milady, whom a glance thrown upon the coast of France\nhas made us lose sight of for an instant.",
"We shall find her still in the despairing attitude in which we left her,\nplunged in an abyss of dismal reflection--a dark hell at the gate of\nwhich she has almos... |
4,431 | 1257_chapters_58-59 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | De Winter, suspecting that Felton is under Milady's influence, sends him on an errand away from the castle. That night, Milady hears a tap at the window; it is Felton. He has chartered a boat to take them to France, and he plans to file through the bars on her window and help her escape. Felton is successful and helps ... | [
"58 ESCAPE",
"As Lord de Winter had thought, Milady's wound was not dangerous. So soon\nas she was left alone with the woman whom the baron had summoned to her\nassistance she opened her eyes.",
"It was, however, necessary to affect weakness and pain--not a very\ndifficult task for so finished an actress as Mil... |
4,432 | 1257_chapters_60-63 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After the death of Buckingham, the king of England closes all the ports, but Milady has already escaped, and one other ship also left. Dumas comments cryptically, "We will later see who was aboard it and how it left." In France, everyone -- including the king -- is bored with the siege of La Rochelle. The musketeers, m... | [
"60 IN FRANCE",
"The first fear of the King of England, Charles I, on learning of the\ndeath of the duke, was that such terrible news might discourage the\nRochellais; he tried, says Richelieu in his Memoirs, to conceal it from\nthem as long as possible, closing all the ports of his kingdom, and\ncarefully keepin... |
4,433 | 1257_chapters_64-66 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Athos sends the others to bed, he sends the four servants on four different roads to discover the whereabouts of Milady. Meanwhile, he goes for a walk and begins questioning some late wanderers. Each one of them is so frightened when they hear his question that they cannot speak; they can only point him in a cert... | [
"64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK",
"The despair of Athos had given place to a concentrated grief which only\nrendered more lucid the brilliant mental faculties of that extraordinary\nman.",
"Possessed by one single thought--that of the promise he had made, and of\nthe responsibility he had taken--he retired last to... |
4,434 | 1257_chapters_1-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Three Musketeers begins with a young Gascon, d'Artagnan, leaving his home in the provinces of France to make his fortune in Paris. His father gives him, as parting gifts, an old yellow horse and a letter of introduction to Monsieur de Treville, head of the King's Musketeers, the elite group of soldiers who make up ... | [
"1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER",
"On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of\nMeung, in which the author of ROMANCE OF THE ROSE was born, appeared to\nbe in as perfect a state of revolution as if the Huguenots had just made\na second La Rochelle of it. Many citizens, seeing... |
4,435 | 1257_chapters_4-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan goes tearing after the Man from Meung, but he doesn't get far before he crashes into Athos, who has just been released from the doctor's ministrations. Athos gets quite cross with d'Artagnan, and once again the young Gascon's temper gets the better of him. The two schedule a duel for noon that day to settle ... | [
"4 THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS",
"D'Artagnan, in a state of fury, crossed the antechamber at three bounds,\nand was darting toward the stairs, which he reckoned upon descending\nfour at a time, when, in his heedless course, he ran head foremost\nagainst a Musketeer... |
4,436 | 1257_chapters_7-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The four friends decide that the money the King gave d'Artagnan should be spent on a dinner for all of them, and on getting d'Artagnan a servant. Porthos finds the servant, a man from Picardy named Planchet, and the friends enjoy a fine meal. A lengthy description of the servants and houses of the three musketeers ens... | [
"7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS",
"When d'Artagnan was out of the Louvre, and consulted his friends upon\nthe use he had best make of his share of the forty pistoles, Athos\nadvised him to order a good repast at the Pomme-de-Pin, Porthos to\nengage a lackey, and Aramis to provide himself with a suitable mistre... |
4,437 | 1257_chapters_11-15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan wanders along the streets of Paris, lost in thoughts of love for Madame Bonacieux. He decides to visit Aramis, and is surprised to find a young woman knocking on his friend's door. He is further shocked when he sees that the young woman's knocks are not answered by Aramis, but by another woman. The two women... | [
"11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS",
"His visit to M. de Treville being paid, the pensive d'Artagnan took the\nlongest way homeward.",
"On what was d'Artagnan thinking, that he strayed thus from his path,\ngazing at the stars of heaven, and sometimes sighing, sometimes smiling?",
"He was thinking of Mme. Bonacieu... |
4,438 | 1257_chapters_16-20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Cardinal tells the King of the Duke of Buckingham's visit to the Queen. The King is incensed, and the Cardinal skillfully pretends to be defending the Queen's honor, rather than trying to destroy it. He does not mention the Queen's gift to Buckingham of the diamond brooch. Instead, he emphasizes the fact that the Q... | [
"16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL",
"It is impossible to form an idea of the impression these few words made\nupon Louis XIII. He grew pale and red alternately; and the cardinal saw\nat once that he had recovered by a single blow all the ground he had\nlost.",
"\"Bu... |
4,439 | 1257_chapters_21-25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan finds the Duke of Buckingham and gives him the Queen's letter. As the Duke is giving the brooch to d'Artagnan, he sees that a piece of it is missing--the piece that Milady, whom he knows as Lady de Winter, cut off the brooch at a ball. The Duke calls a total blockade on all ships leaving English ports, to pr... | [
"21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER",
"As they rode along, the duke endeavored to draw from d'Artagnan, not all\nthat had happened, but what d'Artagnan himself knew. By adding all that\nhe heard from the mouth of the young man to his own remembrances, he was\nenabled to form a pretty exact idea of a position of the seriou... |
4,440 | 1257_chapters_26-30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan arrives at the inn where he left the wounded Aramis, and discovers him and two churchmen discussing Aramis's religious thesis: Aramis has again decided to join the Church. D'Artagnan figures out the root of Aramis's conversion, however--Aramis believes that his mysterious mistress, the author of the letter d... | [
"26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS",
"D'Artagnan had said nothing to Porthos of his wound or of his\nprocurator's wife. Our Bearnais was a prudent lad, however young he\nmight be. Consequently he had appeared to believe all that the\nvainglorious Musketeer had told him, convinced that no friendship will\nhold out against ... |
4,441 | 1257_chapters_31-37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan meets Lord de Winter and three friends for their duel, with Porthos, Aramis and Athos as his seconds. The Englishmen force the Musketeers to reveal their true names--the Musketeers do so secretly, and Athos notes that he must now kill his opponent: he wants no one to know his true identity. The fight begins,... | [
"31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH",
"The hour having come, they went with their four lackeys to a spot behind\nthe Luxembourg given up to the feeding of goats. Athos threw a piece of\nmoney to the goatkeeper to withdraw. The lackeys were ordered to act as\nsentinels.",
"A silent party soon drew near to the same enclosure,... |
4,442 | 1257_chapters_38-44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After his horrifying encounter with Milady, d'Artagnan flees to Athos's home, and tells him everything. With the evidence of the Fleur-de-Lis, both men think it likely that Milady is Athos's branded wife. D'Artagnan gathers his three friends together, and returns home to find Kitty waiting for him. She is now horrified... | [
"38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT",
"D'Artagnan was so completely bewildered that without taking any heed of\nwhat might become of Kitty he ran at full speed across half Paris, and\ndid not stop till he came to Athos's door. The confusion of his mind,\nthe terror which spurred him ... |
4,443 | 1257_chapters_45-50 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Before the Cardinal returns from his meeting with Milady, Athos goes on ahead, ostensibly to scout the way back. The Cardinal returns, and he and the other two Musketeers ride off toward the army camp. Athos, meanwhile, has been hiding in the woods. He returns to the Inn where Milady is staying, and confronts her. She ... | [
"45 A CONJUGAL SCENE",
"As Athos had foreseen, it was not long before the cardinal came down. He\nopened the door of the room in which the Musketeers were, and found\nPorthos playing an earnest game of dice with Aramis. He cast a rapid\nglance around the room, and perceived that one of his men was missing.",
"\... |
4,444 | 1257_chapters_51-57 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Cardinal waits impatiently for news from Milady, while the siege continues. It seems certain that the Rochellese will eventually give in; their only hope is the Duke of Buckingham. Everyone is caught in limbo, waiting for some development. The Cardinal, to speed up La Rochelle's submission, orders fliers to be thro... | [
"51 OFFICER",
"Meanwhile, the cardinal looked anxiously for news from England; but no\nnews arrived that was not annoying and threatening.",
"Although La Rochelle was invested, however certain success might\nappear--thanks to the precautions taken, and above all to the dyke,\nwhich prevented the entrance of any... |
4,445 | 1257_chapters_58-63 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lord de Winter sends Felton away, suspecting that Milady has won him over. However, the day before Milady is to be banished, Felton returns to rescue her. He breaks her out of her prison, and they escape. Felton explains that his plan is to kill Buckingham, and then go to France with Milady. Milady is delighted at the ... | [
"58 ESCAPE",
"As Lord de Winter had thought, Milady's wound was not dangerous. So soon\nas she was left alone with the woman whom the baron had summoned to her\nassistance she opened her eyes.",
"It was, however, necessary to affect weakness and pain--not a very\ndifficult task for so finished an actress as Mil... |
4,446 | 1257_chapters_64-67 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Athos sends the four servants out to Armentieres to scout Milady's exact location, while he and the rest of their party, now including Lord de Winter, attend Madame Bonacieux's funeral. Athos then embarks on a brief journey of his own--he seeks out a mysterious stranger who lives by himself, and convinces him to join t... | [
"64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK",
"The despair of Athos had given place to a concentrated grief which only\nrendered more lucid the brilliant mental faculties of that extraordinary\nman.",
"Possessed by one single thought--that of the promise he had made, and of\nthe responsibility he had taken--he retired last to... |
4,447 | 271_chapters_1-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Black Beauty begins by describing his earliest memories. He fondly remembers the pleasant meadow and pond of his young days, under the care of his mother and a kind master. Gradually, Black Beauty matured from drinking his mother's milk to eating grass, and with that change came more independence. Soon he was playing w... | [
"Part I. 01 My Early Home",
"The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow\nwith a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and\nrushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. Over the hedge on one side\nwe looked into a plowed field, and on the other we looked over a gate... |
4,448 | 271_chapters_6-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Amidst all the comfort and pleasure of Birtwick, there is one thing Black Beauty misses: his liberty. He explains that having to wait and serve a human--even a kind master like his--at all times of the day, week after week, year after year, really could upset a horse. This was in contrast to his earliest years, when he... | [
"06 Liberty",
"I was quite happy in my new place, and if there was one thing that I\nmissed it must not be thought I was discontented; all who had to do with\nme were good and I had a light airy stable and the best of food. What\nmore could I want? Why, liberty! For three years and a half of my life\nI had had al... |
4,449 | 271_chapters_11-21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Black Beauty soon comes to realize how beautiful and just a master and mistress he has in Birtwick--which is the name of Squire Gordon's hall. They would, for example, actively campaign against the use of checkreins; these were people not afraid to stand up for the rights of the weak. Black Beauty recounts one instance... | [
"11 Plain Speaking",
"The longer I lived at Birtwick the more proud and happy I felt at having\nsuch a place. Our master and mistress were respected and beloved by all\nwho knew them; they were good and kind to everybody and everything; not\nonly men and women, but horses and donkeys, dogs and cats, cattle and\nb... |
4,450 | 271_chapters_22-26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Merrylegs is the first of the horses to leave for his new home. Then John comes and takes Ginger and Beauty to their new home at Earlshall Park, where they see for the first time Mr. York--their new coachman--a friendly yet firm middle-aged man. The man asks John about the temperament of these two new horses, and John ... | [
"Part II. 22 Earlshall",
"The next morning after breakfast Joe put Merrylegs into the mistress'\nlow chaise to take him to the vicarage; he came first and said good-by\nto us, and Merrylegs neighed to us from the yard. Then John put the\nsaddle on Ginger and the leading rein on me, and rode us across the\ncountry... |
4,451 | 271_chapters_27-31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the aftermath of Beauty's injuries, his master sends him to a meadow to recover. There he becomes quite lonely, having been used to company, until one day he looks up to find Ginger entering the meadow's gate. However, their joy in meeting abated when Beauty learned why Ginger came; Lord George had severely injured ... | [
"27 Ruined and Going Downhill",
"As soon as my knees were sufficiently healed I was turned into a small\nmeadow for a month or two; no other creature was there; and though I\nenjoyed the liberty and the sweet grass, yet I had been so long used to\nsociety that I felt very lonely. Ginger and I had become fast frie... |
4,452 | 271_chapters_32-38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next phase of Black Beauty's life begins in the horse fair. This is a gathering place for horse merchants looking to buy or sell all different kinds of horses. There Beauty sees both splendid horses just about to begin their adventures and poor wretched ones who have drawn too many loads and suffered too many whips... | [
"Part III. 32 A Horse Fair",
"No doubt a horse fair is a very amusing place to those who have nothing\nto lose; at any rate, there is plenty to see.",
"Long strings of young horses out of the country, fresh from the marshes;\nand droves of shaggy little Welsh ponies, no higher than Merrylegs; and\nhundreds of c... |
4,453 | 271_part_1,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Right from the start, this book makes it clear that a human isn't telling this story. Some people might remember their childhood bedroom, or maybe a favorite toy, but our narrator remembers "a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clean water in it" . Next clue about our narrator? His choice of food: "When I was young, ... | [
"Part I. 01 My Early Home",
"The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow\nwith a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and\nrushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. Over the hedge on one side\nwe looked into a plowed field, and on the other we looked over a gate... |
4,454 | 271_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Before Beauty is two, he witnesses something he says he'll never forget--a hunt. Beauty and the other horses watch as a pack of hunting dogs tear past their field in pursuit of a hare, followed by men on horseback. For a young horse, the noise level is like the equivalent of a rock concert. Beauty, his mom, and the oth... | [
"02 The Hunt",
"Before I was two years old a circumstance happened which I have never\nforgotten. It was early in the spring; there had been a little frost in\nthe night, and a light mist still hung over the woods and meadows. I\nand the other colts were feeding at the lower part of the field when\nwe heard, quit... |
4,455 | 271_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now that Beauty is older, he's shiny and bright black, with "one white foot and a pretty white star" on his forehead. Farmer Grey examines Beauty when he turns four and decides Beauty is ready to be broken in. Just so you know, breaking in a horse is not like breaking in a pair of shoes--it means training a horse to we... | [
"03 My Breaking In",
"I was now beginning to grow handsome; my coat had grown fine and soft,\nand was bright black. I had one white foot and a pretty white star on my\nforehead. I was thought very handsome; my master would not sell me till\nI was four years old; he said lads ought not to work like men, and colts\... |
4,456 | 271_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At last, Farmer Grey says goodbye to "Darkie" and Black Beauty leaves his childhood home, moving to Birtwick Park, an estate owned by Squire Gordon. Birtwick seems like horse heaven. Beauty tells us that his new box in the stable is "clean, sweet, and airy" . Beauty has some new roommates at Squire Gordon's, too--Merry... | [
"04 Birtwick Park",
"At this time I used to stand in the stable and my coat was brushed every\nday till it shone like a rook's wing. It was early in May, when there\ncame a man from Squire Gordon's, who took me away to the hall. My master\nsaid, \"Good-by, Darkie; be a good horse, and always do your best.\" I\nco... |
4,457 | 271_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Beauty introduces us to his caretaker at Birtwick Park, John Manly. John carefully prepares Beauty for riding and takes him out for the first time. John reports to Squire Gordon that Beauty is "as fleet as a deer, and has a fine spirit, too" ; he thinks Beauty "has not been frightened or ill-used while he was young" . ... | [
"05 A Fair Start",
"The name of the coachman was John Manly; he had a wife and one little\nchild, and they lived in the coachman's cottage, very near the stables.",
"The next morning he took me into the yard and gave me a good grooming,\nand just as I was going into my box, with my coat soft and bright, the\nsq... |
4,458 | 271_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Although Beauty just loves his life at Birtwick, he does say he misses one thing--his freedom. "For three years and a half of my life I had had all the liberty I could wish for; but now I must stand up in a stable night and day, except when I am wanted, and then I must be just as steady and quiet as any old horse who h... | [
"06 Liberty",
"I was quite happy in my new place, and if there was one thing that I\nmissed it must not be thought I was discontented; all who had to do with\nme were good and I had a light airy stable and the best of food. What\nmore could I want? Why, liberty! For three years and a half of my life\nI had had al... |
4,459 | 271_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Beauty gives us a little interlude by telling us Ginger's story, which is very different from his own childhood. Or more like colthood? Well, you know. "If I had had your bringing up, I might have had as good a temper as you, but now I don't believe I ever shall" , Ginger says, explaining her bad habits. Do tell, Ginge... | [
"07 Ginger",
"One day when Ginger and I were standing alone in the shade, we had a\ngreat deal of talk; she wanted to know all about my bringing up and\nbreaking in, and I told her.",
"\"Well,\" said she, \"if I had had your bringing up I might have had as\ngood a temper as you, but now I don't believe I ever s... |
4,460 | 271_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next time Beauty and Ginger are alone together, Ginger continues her story. She tells Beauty that she was sold to a "fashionable gentleman" and sent to London, where she was driven with something called a bearing rein. For those of us who've never studied horse life in Victorian England, a bearing rein is a mechani... | [
"08 Ginger's Story Continued",
"The next time that Ginger and I were together in the paddock she told me\nabout her first place.",
"\"After my breaking in,\" she said, \"I was bought by a dealer to match\nanother chestnut horse. For some weeks he drove us together, and then we\nwere sold to a fashionable gentle... |
4,461 | 271_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Next up in Beauty's story is Merrylegs, who's used as a playmate for the children who live and visit at Birtwick Park. They take turns riding him, and one day James brings Merrylegs back to the stable and gives him a warning about getting into trouble. Merrylegs says he's "only been giving those young people a lesson" ... | [
"09 Merrylegs",
"Mr. Blomefield, the vicar, had a large family of boys and girls;\nsometimes they used to come and play with Miss Jessie and Flora. One\nof the girls was as old as Miss Jessie; two of the boys were older, and\nthere were several little ones. When they came there was plenty of work\nfor Merrylegs, ... |
4,462 | 271_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Because Beauty and Ginger have more racing blood than many carriage horses, they're often used for riding in addition to driving. Beauty's favorite activity is to go out in a riding party with Squire Gordon's family, Ginger, Merrylegs, and another Birtwick horse, Sir Oliver. Beauty "had the best of it, for I always car... | [
"10 A Talk in the Orchard",
"Ginger and I were not of the regular tall carriage horse breed, we had\nmore of the racing blood in us. We stood about fifteen and a half hands\nhigh; we were therefore just as good for riding as we were for driving,\nand our master used to say that he disliked either horse or man tha... |
4,463 | 271_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Beauty begins to realize how fantastic Birtwick really is: "Our master and mistress were respected and beloved by all who knew them" . More than this, though, they're exceptionally kind to animals, and have campaigned to get rid of bearing reins in their immediate area. Beauty recalls a time his master was riding him h... | [
"11 Plain Speaking",
"The longer I lived at Birtwick the more proud and happy I felt at having\nsuch a place. Our master and mistress were respected and beloved by all\nwho knew them; they were good and kind to everybody and everything; not\nonly men and women, but horses and donkeys, dogs and cats, cattle and\nb... |
4,464 | 271_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One day Beauty is hooked up to the dogcart to drive his master on a long trip, accompanied by John. He's excited about this and comments on the rain and the high water in the nearby river. When they start back toward home, the storm has gotten worse, becoming more violent until a tree crashes down on the road in front ... | [
"12 A Stormy Day",
"One day late in the autumn my master had a long journey to go on\nbusiness. I was put into the dog-cart, and John went with his master. I\nalways liked to go in the dog-cart, it was so light and the high wheels\nran along so pleasantly. There had been a great deal of rain, and now\nthe wind wa... |
4,465 | 271_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One day when John and Beauty are out riding, they spot a boy trying to leap a pony over a gate. The pony keeps refusing and turning away, though, and when he does, the boy whips him. And then the boy takes it a step further, beating and kicking the poor animal . As they watch, the pony throws the boy, who falls headfir... | [
"13 The Devil's Trade Mark",
"One day when John and I had been out on some business of our master's,\nand were returning gently on a long, straight road, at some distance we\nsaw a boy trying to leap a pony over a gate; the pony would not take the\nleap, and the boy cut him with the whip, but he only turned off o... |
4,466 | 271_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One December morning, Squire Gordon comes into the stable and begins asking John questions about James, the stable boy. John insists that James is the finest stable boy in all the land, noting "that a steadier, pleasanter, honester, smarter young fellow I never had in this stable" . Squire Gordon completely agrees with... | [
"14 James Howard",
"Early one morning in December John had just led me into my box after my\ndaily exercise, and was strapping my cloth on and James was coming in\nfrom the corn chamber with some oats, when the master came into the\nstable. He looked rather serious, and held an open letter in his hand.\nJohn fast... |
4,467 | 271_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | All right, what's an ostler? If you haven't yet Googled it, an ostler is someone employed at an inn to take care of horses. Now that we've established that, we can let Beauty get on with his story. Squire and Mistress Gordon ask James to drive them to visit some friends who live forty-six miles away. It's a long trip, ... | [
"15 The Old Hostler",
"After this it was decided by my master and mistress to pay a visit to\nsome friends who lived about forty-six miles from our home, and James\nwas to drive them. The first day we traveled thirty-two miles.\nThere were some long, heavy hills, but James drove so carefully and\nthoughtfully tha... |
4,468 | 271_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Later on at the hotel's stable, a young man helping the ostler accidentally leaves his lit pipe in the hayloft. Beauty wakes up in the middle of the night to find the stables filled with smoke; he describes the noise of fire, but has no idea what it is. The horses in the stable are very frightened, and an ostler rushes... | [
"16 The Fire",
"Later on in the evening a traveler's horse was brought in by the second\nhostler, and while he was cleaning him a young man with a pipe in his\nmouth lounged into the stable to gossip.",
"\"I say, Towler,\" said the hostler, \"just run up the ladder into the loft\nand put some hay down into this... |
4,469 | 271_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Crisis over at last, they reach the home of Squire Gordon's friend. The coachman there compliments James on his ability to get Beauty and Ginger out of the burning stable: "It is one of the hardest things in the world to get horses out of a stable when there is either fire or flood" . So how do you think James made it ... | [
"17 John Manly's Talk",
"The rest of our journey was very easy, and a little after sunset we\nreached the house of my master's friend. We were taken into a clean,\nsnug stable; there was a kind coachman, who made us very comfortable,\nand who seemed to think a good deal of James when he heard about the\nfire.",
... |
4,470 | 271_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One night, John wakes Beauty up in the middle of the night and saddles him up as fast as he can. Squire Gordon tells John to ride for his life--"that is, for your mistress's life" . This doesn't sound good. John and Beauty ride out to fetch Doctor White at Squire Gordon's request. When they reach a long, flat stretch o... | [
"18 Going for the Doctor",
"One night, a few days after James had left, I had eaten my hay and was\nlying down in my straw fast asleep, when I was suddenly roused by the\nstable bell ringing very loud. I heard the door of John's house open,\nand his feet running up to the hall. He was back again in no time; he\nu... |
4,471 | 271_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Beauty's illness worsens, and Mr. Bond, the horse doctor, visits often. "One day he bled me; John held a pail for the blood. I felt very faint after it, and thought I should die, and I believe they all thought so too" . This probably doesn't sound like a familiar medical procedure, but "bleeding" people and animals was... | [
"19 Only Ignorance",
"I do not know how long I was ill. Mr. Bond, the horse-doctor, came every\nday. One day he bled me; John held a pail for the blood. I felt very\nfaint after it and thought I should die, and I believe they all thought\nso too.",
"Ginger and Merrylegs had been moved into the other stable, so ... |
4,472 | 271_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After his disastrous newbie mistake, Joe Green turns out to be a good stable boy after all, with his small size being his only disadvantage. One morning Joe rides Beauty out to deliver a note. On their way back, they find a cart full of bricks that's stuck in the mud, with the carter "shouting and flogging the two hors... | [
"20 Joe Green",
"Joe Green went on very well; he learned quickly, and was so attentive\nand careful that John began to trust him in many things; but as I have\nsaid, he was small of his age, and it was seldom that he was allowed to\nexercise either Ginger or me; but it so happened one morning that John\nwas out w... |
4,473 | 271_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Beauty has lived at Birtwick for three years, but things are about to change. Squire Gordon's wife is ill, and the doctor visits frequently; at last the horses hear that their mistress has to go live someplace warm for several years. Everyone's very upset: "The news fell upon the household like the tolling of a death-b... | [
"21 The Parting",
"Now I had lived in this happy place three years, but sad changes were\nabout to come over us. We heard from time to time that our mistress was\nill. The doctor was often at the house, and the master looked grave and\nanxious. Then we heard that she must leave her home at once, and go to\na warm... |
4,474 | 271_part_2,_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Beauty and Ginger say goodbye to Merrylegs, and then John drives them to Earlshall Park, the home of the mysterious Earl of W__. At Earlshall, John meets Mr. York, their new coachman, and Beauty and Ginger are taken to new boxes in a "light, airy stable" . So far, so good. Mr. York asks John what he s... | [
"Part II. 22 Earlshall",
"The next morning after breakfast Joe put Merrylegs into the mistress'\nlow chaise to take him to the vicarage; he came first and said good-by\nto us, and Merrylegs neighed to us from the yard. Then John put the\nsaddle on Ginger and the leading rein on me, and rode us across the\ncountry... |
4,475 | 271_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One day, Lady W comes down and tells the groom to raise Beauty and Ginger's heads even higher. Beauty thinks it feels "almost intolerable" , and clearly there's no "almost" for Ginger--she's done. She rears up, startling York and a groom, and then "went on plunging, rearing, and kicking in a most desperate manner" . Sh... | [
"23 A Strike for Liberty",
"One day my lady came down later than usual, and the silk rustled more\nthan ever.",
"\"Drive to the Duchess of B----'s,\" she said, and then after a pause,\n\"Are you never going to get those horses' heads up, York? Raise them at\nonce and let us have no more of this humoring and non... |
4,476 | 271_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the spring, Lord W travels to London with York, leaving Beauty and Ginger at home. Lady Harriet, who's still at the hall, is an invalid and never goes out, but Lady Anne likes riding horses, and chooses Beauty as her preferred ride. She re-names him "Black Auster," and before you think that's a weird choice, you sho... | [
"24 The Lady Anne, or a Runaway Horse",
"Early in the spring, Lord W---- and part of his family went up to\nLondon, and took York with them. I and Ginger and some other horses were\nleft at home for use, and the head groom was left in charge.",
"The Lady Harriet, who remained at the hall, was a great invalid, a... |
4,477 | 271_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The man left in charge of the stables when York goes to London is named Reuben Smith, and Beauty thinks he's fantastic... as long as he isn't drinking, that is. He doesn't drink often, but apparently when he does, it's a total disaster. York almost gets rid of him because of this vice, but Smith is so valuable and tale... | [
"25 Reuben Smith",
"Now I must say a little about Reuben Smith, who was left in charge of\nthe stables when York went to London. No one more thoroughly understood\nhis business than he did, and when he was all right there could not be\na more faithful or valuable man. He was gentle and very clever in his\nmanagem... |
4,478 | 271_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At last Beauty hears Ginger approaching in the dogcart, and he neighs to let them know he's there. The men in the dogcart find Reuben Smith, still on the ground and unfortunately dead. They look at Beauty's injured knees and immediately understand that Beauty must have fallen. When Robert, one of the men, tries to lead... | [
"26 How it Ended",
"It must have been nearly midnight when I heard at a great distance the\nsound of a horse's feet. Sometimes the sound died away, then it grew\nclearer again and nearer. The road to Earlshall led through woods that\nbelonged to the earl; the sound came in that direction, and I hoped it\nmight be... |
4,479 | 271_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Recovering from his injuries, Beauty is kept alone in a meadow for a few months. He likes the freedom, but he's lonely, especially missing Ginger. Finally one morning Ginger arrives in the meadow, but although their reunion is happy, it seems Ginger's health has suffered, too--as Beauty says, she's been "ruined by hard... | [
"27 Ruined and Going Downhill",
"As soon as my knees were sufficiently healed I was turned into a small\nmeadow for a month or two; no other creature was there; and though I\nenjoyed the liberty and the sweet grass, yet I had been so long used to\nsociety that I felt very lonely. Ginger and I had become fast frie... |
4,480 | 271_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the livery stable, Beauty is lent out to all kinds of drivers, including totally clueless ones. Because he's good-tempered, Beauty has the bad luck of being lent out to the most awful drivers, and he describes a few different types. First up, the "tight-rein" drivers, nervous people who hold the reins as hard as the... | [
"28 A Job Horse and His Drivers",
"Hitherto I had always been driven by people who at least knew how to\ndrive; but in this place I was to get my experience of all the different\nkinds of bad and ignorant driving to which we horses are subjected; for\nI was a \"job horse\", and was let out to all sorts of people ... |
4,481 | 271_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Beauty's not done talking about different types of clueless drivers, so in this chapter we get another one, the "steam-engine" style of driver. Also inexperienced, "They always seemed to think that a horse was something like a steam engine, only smaller. At any rate, they think that if only they pay for it, a horse is ... | [
"29 Cockneys",
"Then there is the steam-engine style of driving; these drivers were\nmostly people from towns, who never had a horse of their own and\ngenerally traveled by rail.",
"They always seemed to think that a horse was something like a\nsteam-engine, only smaller. At any rate, they think that if only th... |
4,482 | 271_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Beauty's new master lives in Bath and has bought a horse on the advice of his doctor. He doesn't know anything about horses, so he hires a man named Filcher as a groom. This new master orders lots of good food, but is totally out to lunch when it comes to his new groom. Although at first everything's fine--the groom "k... | [
"30 A Thief",
"My new master was an unmarried man. He lived at Bath, and was much\nengaged in business. His doctor advised him to take horse exercise, and\nfor this purpose he bought me. He hired a stable a short distance from\nhis lodgings, and engaged a man named Filcher as groom. My master knew\nvery little ab... |
4,483 | 271_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Beauty's new groom arrives, a man named Alfred Smirk. And apparently Beauty's master is really bad at hiring grooms, because Beauty says, " if ever there was a humbug in the shape of a groom, Alfred Smirk was the man" . He treats Beauty well, especially in front of Beauty's master, but he does a terrible job at groomin... | [
"31 A Humbug",
"My master was not immediately suited, but in a few days my new groom\ncame. He was a tall, good-looking fellow enough; but if ever there was\na humbug in the shape of a groom Alfred Smirk was the man. He was very\ncivil to me, and never used me ill; in fact, he did a great deal of\nstroking and pa... |
4,484 | 271_part_3,_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Beauty's put up for sale at a horse fair, and he makes a sly comment about how much fun a horse fair must be for those who "have nothing to lose" . Which reminds us that Beauty--and all of the other horses at the fair--have a lot to lose. Beauty describes the fair and the mix of horses there, some of them still young a... | [
"Part III. 32 A Horse Fair",
"No doubt a horse fair is a very amusing place to those who have nothing\nto lose; at any rate, there is plenty to see.",
"Long strings of young horses out of the country, fresh from the marshes;\nand droves of shaggy little Welsh ponies, no higher than Merrylegs; and\nhundreds of c... |
4,485 | 271_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Beauty's new master, Jeremiah "Jerry" Barker, is a London cab driver, and Beauty immediately likes him and his family: "I have never known such a happy, merry family before or since" , Beauty says. Jerry owns his own cab and another horse named Captain, a tall, white, elderly horse, "high-bred, fine-mannered," and "nob... | [
"33 A London Cab Horse",
"Jeremiah Barker was my new master's name, but as every one called him Jerry, I shall do the same. Polly, his wife, was just as good a match as a man could have. She was a plump, trim, tidy little woman, with smooth, dark hair, dark eyes, and a merry little mouth. The boy was twelve years... |
4,486 | 271_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now it's time for a little side trip, this time for Captain's story. Captain, Beauty's new cab-pulling companion, was trained as a war horse, and his first owner was a cavalry officer in the Crimean War. Captain liked the training and loved his master, who treated him very well. Captain " thought the life of an army ho... | [
"34 An Old War Horse",
"Captain had been broken in and trained for an army horse; his first\nowner was an officer of cavalry going out to the Crimean war. He said he\nquite enjoyed the training with all the other horses, trotting together,\nturning together, to the right hand or the left, halting at the word of\n... |
4,487 | 271_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Beauty's beyond thrilled with his master. Jerry Barker sings songs, treats people well, and is generally a decent and kind human being. Plus his kids are not only sweet but useful in the stable, too. One day, Jerry and Beauty encounter two drunk young men who want to pay extra to rush to the train station. Jerry refuse... | [
"35 Jerry Barker",
"I never knew a better man than my new master. He was kind and good, and\nas strong for the right as John Manly; and so good-tempered and merry\nthat very few people could pick a quarrel with him. He was very fond of\nmaking little songs, and singing them to himself. One he was very fond\nof wa... |
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