Twenty Years After his own service to Mazarin, he refuses to watch over the Duc de Beaufort, who is imprisoned at the time, and soon learns that, in consequence, he is to be returned to the Bastille, though this does not deter him from speaking highly of the achievements of d'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers. Having determined that d'Artagnan is the man he seeks, Mazarin enters the chambers of the Queen to let her know that he has enlisted the man who had served her so well twenty years earlier. The Queen, feeling guilty for having forgotten d'Artagnan's service, gives Mazarin a diamond
Twenty Years a Dream Twenty Years a Dream "Twenty Years a Dream" () is a short story written by Chinese author Pu Songling in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" (1740). One of the earlier entries in the collection, it revolves around a bachelor's romantic relations with a female ghost. The story was favourably received by literary critics. Yang Yuwei (), a bachelor who resides in a derelict apartment next to a cemetery, is visited by a female ghost one night. She introduces herself as Locket (连琐), a Gansu local who died of sickness in her teenage years some twenty years ago, and is