The Three Musketeers (Trilogie des Mousquetaires #1)

by Alexandre Dumas

d'Artagnan took every smile for an insult, and every look as a provocation—whence

intact in his susceptibility,

Now, as a half-smile was sufficient to awaken the irascibility of the young man,

his sword, which was broken in two pieces by the blow of a stick.

He believed himself transported into that famous country of giants into which Gulliver afterward went and was so frightened;

Flattery was at that period very current, and M. de Treville loved incense as well as a king, or even a cardinal.

"Gentlemen," said he, "allow me to correct your words, if you please. You said you were but three, but

it appears to me we are four." "But you are not one of us," said Porthos. "That's true," replied d'Artagnan; "I have not the uniform, but I have the spirit. My heart is that of a Musketeer;

The four musketeers!

replaced a verb in its right tense and a noun in its case.

who have committed no other crime than singing in French the

psalms we sing in Latin?"

dark hell at the gate of which she has almost left hope behind,

Dante

"I will not promise," said Milady, "for no one has more respect for a promise or an oath than I have; and if I make a promise I must keep it." "Well," said Felton,

Milady was only a queen while among queens.

To command inferior beings was rather a humiliation than a pleasure for her.

but his conscience murmured too loud for his mouth to dare speak.

Learn to know the heart of men, and henceforth make yourself less easily the instrument of their unjust vengeance."

Certainly, if Milady's strength had been equal to her hatred, Mme. Bonacieux would never have left that embrace alive. But not being able to stifle her, she smiled upon her.

That sigh was the soul, so chaste

and so loving, which reascended to heaven.

"Friend, be a man! Women weep for the dead; men avenge them!"

and by the bluish splendor of the fiery serpent

If you know a prayer, say it—for you are condemned, and you shall die."