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TWENTY YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 68 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | TWENTY YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 68 68. Cromwell s House. It was in fact Mordaunt whom D Artagnan had followed without knowing it. On entering the house he had taken off his mask and imitation beard then mounting a staircase had opened a door and in a room lighted by a single lamp found himself face to face with a man seated behind a desk. This man was Cromwell. Cromwell had two or three of these retreats in London unknown except to the most intimate of his friends. Mordaunt was among these. It is you Mordaunt he said. You are late. General I wished to see the ceremony to the end which delayed me. Ah I scarcely thought you were so curious as that. I am always curious to see the downfall of your honor s enemies and he was not among the least of them. But you general were you not at Whitehall No said Cromwell. There was a moment s silence. Have you had any account of it None. I have been here since the morning. I only know that there was a conspiracy to rescue the king. Ah you knew that said Mordaunt. It matters little. Four men disguised as workmen were to get the king out of prison and take him to Greenwich where a vessel was waiting. And knowing all that your honor remained here far from the city tranquil and inactive. Tranquil yes replied Cromwell. But who told you I was inactive But -- if the plot had succeeded I wished it to do so. I thought your excellence considered the death of Charles I. as a misfortune necessary to the welfare of England. Yes his death but it would have been more seemly not upon the scaffold. Why so asked Mordaunt. Cromwell smiled. Because it could have been said that I had had him condemned for the sake of justice and had let him escape out of pity. But if he had escaped Impossible my precautions were taken. And does your honor know the four men who undertook to rescue him The four Frenchmen of whom two were sent by the queen to her husband and two by Mazarin to me. And do you think Mazarin commissioned them to act as they have
