Fra Angelico paintings

Fra Angelico paintings
Frederic Edwin Church paintings
Monseigneur,” replied Athos, for amidst the general alarm he alone had preserved that calmness and sang froid which never forsook him —“monseigneur, the musketeers, when they are not on duty, or when their duty is over, drink and play at dice, and they are officers of very high rank to their lackeys.”
“Lackeys!” grumbled the cardinal. “Lackeys who are ordered to warn their masters when any one passes are not lackeys; they are sentinels.”
“Your Eminence may perceive that if we had not taken this precaution, we should have been in danger of letting you pass without presenting you our respects, or offering you our thanks for the favour youLet us return to milady, whom our eyes, turned toward the coast of France, have lost from sight for an instant.
We shall find her in the despairing attitude in which we left her, plunged in an abyss of dismal reflections, a dismal hell, at the gate of which she has almost left hope behind; for now for the first time she doubts, for the first time she fears.