二十年后

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    　　The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu　　In a splendid chamber of the Palais Royal, formerly styled the Palais Cardinal, a man was sitting in deep reverie, his head supported on his hands, leaning over a gilt and inlaid table which was covered with letters and papers. Behind this figure glowed a vast fireplace alive with leaping flames; great logs of oak blazed and crackled on the polished brass andirons whose flicker shone upon the superb habiliments of the lonely tenant of the room, which was illumined grandly by twin candelabra rich with wax-lights.　　Any one who happened at that moment to contemplate that red simar the gorgeous robe of office and the rich lace, or who gazed on that pale brow, bent in anxious meditation, might, in the solitude of that apartment, bined with the silence of the ante-chambers and the measured paces of the guar