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Quotation from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
“calm and cool as if on the parade, except that his noble and beautiful countenance became sad as he saw slaughtered so many men who were sacrificed on the one side to the obstinacy of royalty and on the other to the personal rancor of the princes”
Twenty Years After, Chapter LXXVIII (The Battle of Charenton), trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation
Athos rides into the fight with his sword sheathed while Aramis fights in a fury; moments later Aramis shoots the Duc de Châtillon.
Citation: "calm and cool as if on the parade, except that his noble and beautiful countenance became sad as he saw slaughtered so many men who were sacrificed on the one side to the obstinacy of royalty and on the other to the personal rancor of the princes" — Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After, Chapter LXXVIII (The Battle of Charenton), trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation. (id dumas-twenty-years-after-q11)
