Twenty Years After - Classic Reprint Author:Alexandre Dumas The shade of cardinal Richelieu. In one of the rooms of the Palais Royal, ia old times styled the Palais Cardinal, there sat a man in deep reverie, his head supported on his hands, loaning oyer a table, the corners of which were of silver-gilt, and which was covered with letters and papers. Behind this figure was a vast fireplace glowing with he... more »at; large masses of wood blazed aud crackled on the gilded andirons, and the flames shone upon the superb habiliments of the solitary inhabitant of the chamber, illumined in tho foreground by a candelabra filled witli wax-lights. Any one who had happened at that moment to contemplate that red simar-the gorgeous robe of office-and the rich lace-or who gazed upon that palo brow, bent in anxious meditation, might, in the solitude of that apartment, combined with the silence of the antochambers, and the measured paces of the guards upon the landing-place, have fancied that the shadoof Cardinal Richelieu still li
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