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"His Eminence, then, orders me—" said the lady.†
Chpt 1. *
There was, to be sure, Father Joseph, but his name was never pronounced but with a subdued voice, such was the terror inspired by his Gray Eminence, as the cardinal's familiar was called.†
Chpt 1.
He paraded his Musketeers before the Cardinal Armand Duplessis with an insolent air which made the gray moustache of his Eminence curl with ire.†
Chpt 2.
They looked hesitatingly around them, and appeared to doubt the thickness of the partition between them and the office of M. de Treville; but a fresh allusion soon brought back the conversation to his Eminence, and then the laughter recovered its loudness and the light was not withheld from any of his actions.†
Chpt 2.
Six of his Eminence's Guards arrest six of his Majesty's Musketeers!†
Chpt 3.
Might not this young man be sent by his Eminence?†
Chpt 3.
Therefore, in spite of all my protestations, if it be as I suspect, my cunning gossip will assure me that he holds his Eminence in horror.†
Chpt 3.
How do I know that this is not his Eminence who has honored you with the commission to procure my head?†
Chpt 4.
But scarcely had the two rapiers clashed, when a company of the Guards of his Eminence, commanded by M. de Jussac, turned the corner of the convent.†
Chpt 5.
Do you know that his Eminence has been making fresh complaints against your Musketeers, and that with so much emotion, that this evening his Eminence is indisposed?†
Chpt 6.
Do you know that his Eminence has been making fresh complaints against your Musketeers, and that with so much emotion, that this evening his Eminence is indisposed?†
Chpt 6.
Then turning toward M. de Treville and walking with him toward the embrasure of a window, "Well, monsieur," continued he, "you say it is his Eminence's Guards who have sought a quarrel with your Musketeers?"†
Chpt 6.
Unfortunately for d'Artagnan, among the spectators was one of his Eminence's Guardsmen, who, still irritated by the defeat of his companions, which had happened only the day before, had promised himself to seize the first opportunity of avenging it.†
Chpt 6.
Porthos and Aramis were so engaged with their game, and Athos was watching them with so much attention, that they did not even perceive their young companion go out, who, as he had told the Guardsman of his Eminence, stopped outside the door.†
Chpt 6.
This cry was generally heeded; for the Musketeers were known to be enemies of the cardinal, and were beloved on account of the hatred they bore to his Eminence.†
Chpt 6.
"In all probability he has," replied the valet, "for I saw the horses harnessed to his Eminence's carriage this morning, and when I asked where he was going, they told me, 'To St. Germain.'†
Chpt 6.
It may easily be understood, therefore, that the conversation during the whole of dinner turned upon the two checks that his Eminence's Guardsmen had received.†
Chpt 6.
His Eminence is not his holiness, sire.†
Chpt 6.
Seven of his Eminence's Guards placed HORS DE COMBAT by you four in two days!†
Chpt 6.
If you go on so, his Eminence will be forced to renew his company in three weeks, and I to put the edicts in force in all their rigor.†
Chpt 6.
Seeing you constantly surrounded by Musketeers of a very superb appearance, and knowing that these Musketeers belong to Monsieur de Treville, and were consequently enemies of the cardinal, I thought that you and your friends, while rendering justice to your poor queen, would be pleased to play his Eminence an ill turn.†
Chpt 8.
Her mouth was small and rosy; and although her underlip, like that of all princes of the House of Austria, protruded slightly beyond the other, it was eminently lovely in its smile, but as profoundly disdainful in its contempt.†
Chpt 12.

eminently = with high standing
"But, Monsieur Commissary," said he, calmly, "believe that I know and appreciate, more than anybody, the merit of the incomparable eminence by whom we have the honor to be governed."†
Chpt 13.
Yes, monseigneur, but I told her she was wrong to talk about such things; and that his Eminence was incapable—†
Chpt 14.
"The count is here," said the officer, "and requests to speak with your Eminence instantly."†
Chpt 14.
"To your Eminence!" murmured Bonacieux, rolling his eyes round in astonishment.†
Chpt 14.
"Who?" asked his Eminence.†
Chpt 14.
Madame de Lannoy, who is devoted to your Eminence, as you know.†
Chpt 14.
The fact is that I do not doubt your Eminence's genius—†
Chpt 14.
That is exactly what I was going to say, if your Eminence had let me finish my sentence.†
Chpt 14.
Does your Eminence command that they both be instantly arrested?†
Chpt 14.
"I," cried Bonacieux, "I deceive your Eminence!"†
Chpt 14.
Your Eminence is right.†
Chpt 14.
Ah, monseigneur!" continued Bonacieux, throwing himself at his Eminence's feet, "ah, how truly you are the cardinal, the great cardinal, the man of genius whom all the world reveres!"†
Chpt 14.
Long life to his Eminence!†
Chpt 14.
"Well," said the latter, "a young woman of about twenty-six or twenty-eight years of age, and a man of from thirty-five to forty, have indeed lodged at the two houses pointed out by your Eminence; but the woman left last night, and the man this morning."†
Chpt 14.
What are your Eminence's orders?†
Chpt 14.
And that man, what has your Eminence done with him?†
Chpt 14.
"I defy your Eminence to prove it," cried Treville, with his Gascon freedom and military frankness; "for one hour before, Monsieur Athos, who, I will confide it to your Majesty, is really a man of the highest quality, did me the honor after having dined with me to be conversing in the saloon of my hotel, with the Duc de la Tremouille and the Comte de Chalus, who happened to be there."†
Chpt 15.
"If his Eminence entertains any suspicion against one of my Musketeers," said Treville, "the justice of Monsieur the Cardinal is so well known that I demand an inquiry."†
Chpt 15.
Your Eminence means Monsieur d'Artagnan.†
Chpt 15.
Yes, your Eminence, it is the same.†
Chpt 15.
"Does your Eminence doubt my word?" said Treville, with a brow flushed with anger.†
Chpt 15.
Oh, as to that I can speak positively, your Eminence; for as he came in I remarked that it was but half past nine by the clock, although I had believed it to be later.†
Chpt 15.
"If his Eminence," said he, "did not have personal motives—" The cardinal saw what the king was about to say and interrupted him: "Pardon me," said he; "but the instant your Majesty considers me a prejudiced judge, I withdraw."†
Chpt 15.
As to the rest, M. de Treville had good reason to mistrust the cardinal and to think that all was not over, for scarcely had the captain of the Musketeers closed the door after him, than his Eminence said to the king, "Now that we are at length by ourselves, we will, if your Majesty pleases, converse seriously.†
Chpt 15.
He was Des Roches le Masle, canon of Notre Dame, who had formerly been valet of a bishop, who introduced him to his Eminence as a perfectly devout man.†
Chpt 16.
On leaving the convent he entered into the magistracy, became president on the place of his uncle, embraced the cardinal's party, which did not prove want of sagacity, became chancellor, served his Eminence with zeal in his hatred against the queen-mother and his vengeance against Anne of Austria, stimulated the judges in the affair of Calais, encouraged the attempts of M. de Laffemas, chief gamekeeper of France; then, at length, invested with the entire confidence of the cardinal—a confidence which he had so well earned—he received the singular commission for the execution of which he presented himself in the queen's apartments.†
Chpt 16.
The king, quite delighted, inquired if the cardinal was still at the Louvre; he was told that his Eminence awaited the orders of his Majesty in the business cabinet.†
Chpt 16.
He hoped, then, in a conversation with Anne of Austria, to obtain some information from that conversation, and afterward to come upon his Eminence with some secret which the cardinal either knew or did not know, but which, in either case, would raise him infinitely in the eyes of his minister.†
Chpt 17.

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