CHAPTER XLVIII.

THE RIOT BECOMES AN INSURRECTION. The room into which d'Artagnan and Porthos had been ushered was divided from the drawing-room where the queen was by tapestry curtains only, and this thin partition enabled them to hear all that passed in the adjoining room, while the aperture between the two hangings, small as it was, permitted them to see. The queen was standing in the room, pale with anger; her self-control, however, was so great that it might have been supposed that she was calm. Comminges, Villequier, and Guit…