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I was really struggling to understand the 'women's voices' Smekhov was using, especially with the dialogue between Milady and Felton and then Milady and the Abbess at Bethune; the irony is that I then had considerable difficulty in distinguishing between Milady and Rochefort in their dialogue together :( Presumably at this point she is no longer exaggeratedly feminine, but addressing him as an equal...

Another odd abridgement in the Russian version: Athos' line "I thought so, and that was why I intervened" is missing in response to Aramis' admission that he had intended to kill Richelieu if the Cardinal had insisted on demanding the letter from Marie Michon.... The text cuts straight to Aramis taking the letter out of his pocket again and reading it out loud to the others.

I checked the end of this chapter back against the English translation, and the tone of Athos' parting remark appears to have been entirely altered for no apparent reason: 《Vous êtes-vous bien amusés dans votre excursion?》
--Prodigieusement, répondit Athos, les dents serrées.

"Have you found yourselves amused in your excursion?"
"Prodigiously so!" replied Athos in his own name, and that of his companions.

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"Buckingham, qu'elle hait, comme elle hait tout ce qu'elle a aimé" - which suggests that apparently Buckingham the great seducer really did have an affair with Milady in which she was foolish enough to allow her heart to become engaged (as opposed to her seducing him for her own purposes!) I had assumed Milady as cast-off lover was a political fiction for Richelieu's benefit...