Status Updates From Les Trois Mousquetaires - V...

[Atos-my son, son of Michon]

[Duchess- is he handsome?]

[Atos-like his mother]

[Duchess- what future career?]

[Atos recalls Mª Michon]

Duke- do you fear the Holy Ghost to descend as a tongue of fire?

[La Ramée absorved by the sublime checkmate combinations]

[48 hours from evasion, errors upon errors in chess]

[there's a message inside the "péla", from Count Rochefort: ask pastry]

Beaufort to La Ramée: tomorrow is Sunday of Pentecost

La Ramée: let Grimaud serve us

bring the chessboard

[Duke of] Beaufort- I will strangle him (Mazarino) with my own hands

Grimaud hands letter, from Lady Montbazon, to Beaufort:

"your freedom getting closer"


La Ramée: let's play "péla"; "an astrologer predicted your evasion"

Grimaud starts his functions: never to let a prisoner alone, seize all cutting tools, no signs to the outer world, no long talks with guards

[Beaufort tried poetry, then painting; he wanted to be a Rafael or a Michael Angelo; on prison walls he had made the face of FACHINO MAZARINO]

[so they took away the stove; no fire in winter]

[they brought a dog: Pistache; he trained it; dog performed shows; ...they killed the dog]

[In prison, Beaufort would say bad things about Mazarino; Beaufort as brave as grandfather Henry IV, but less lettered]

Unnoticed, Mazarino managed to listen to the guards talk.

Coysel is both an astrologer and a magician, predicts Beaufort will escape, before Pentecost.

He didn't predict the future, he knew about the past, which sometimes is worse.

Atos to Raul- this night we leave to Paris

Message:
D'Artagnan is called to Paris

with a P.S. to get 200 pistols

D'Artagnan- time for us to return to service

Atos- whom to serve? Mazarino is a petty Italian, intrigue prone, a villain, who mistreats the Queen

D'Artagnan- all praise should fall on count Atos as he taught me everything

[why Atos sobriety?
why Atos small fortune?]

Atos' loyal heart
Portos' vanity
Aramis' cunningness

Atos- you're amazed about myself, aren't you?




D'Artagnan- are you happy?

Atos hugs D'Artagnan

D' Artagnan- we search the house of Sir Count De La Fère

D'Artagnan- prepare two pistols and a bush knife

Portos- back to adventures

D'Artagnan to Portos- your ambition is a title

Portos- will Mazarino make me a Baron?

D'Artagnan- for sure

[Giant Portos, sighing often, receives D'Artagnan] Welcome

D'Artagnan- [let us be] neither Cardinalists nor Frondists

Aramis-[in that case] I won't get involved

Aramis- Is it the civil war you're proposing?

D' Artagnan- the war for the king

D'Artagnan- Do you consider yourself to be rich?

Aramis- I'm poor like Job

Aramis- Between me and the Duchess of Langueville there's nothing

Aramis is the anagram of Simara, name of a demon

[D'Artagnan would marry and have three kids if his diamond returned to him]