Alexandre Dumas: Twenty Years After

12. In which it is shown... (continued)

At Villars-Cotterets he wrote to the cardinal:

"My Lord, -- I have already one man to offer to your eminence, and he is well worth twenty men. I am just setting out for Blois. The Comte de la Fere inhabits the Castle of Bragelonne, in the environs of that city."