Daniel Ridgway Knight paintings

Daniel Ridgway Knight paintings
Edmund Blair Leighton paintings
which I have taken an oath should be buried with me. The queen gave them to me; the queen takes them from me. Her will, like that of God, be done in all things.”
Then he began to kiss, one after the other, those studs with which he was about to part. All at once he uttered a terrible cry.
“What is the matter?” exclaimed D’Artagnan anxiously; “what has happened to you, milord?”
“All is lost! all is lost!” cried Buckingham, turning as pale as death; “two of the studs are missing—there are but ten of them left!”
“Can you have lost them, milord, or do you think they have been stolen?”
“They have been stolen,” replied the duke, “and it is the cardinal who has dealt me this blow. See! the ribbons which held them have been cut with scissors.”