Chapter 12: XI

XI In Which the Plot Thickens His visit to M. de Tréville being paid, the pensive d’Artagnan took the longest way homeward. On what was d’Artagnan thinking, that he strayed thus from his path, gazing at the stars of heaven, and sometimes sighing, sometimes smiling? He was thinking of Madame Bonacieux. For an apprentice musketeer the young woman was almost an ideal of love. Pretty, mysterious, initiated in almost all the secrets of the court, which reflected such a charming gravity o…