It was possible, I reflected, that amere different arrangement of theparticulars of the scene, of the details ofthe picture, would be sufficient to modify,or perhaps to annihilate its capacity forsorrowful impression
This permission, wefeel bound to say, was graciously granted;which compels us here to give a publiccontradiction to the slanderers who pretendthat we live under a government butmoderately indulgent to men of letters.
Musketeers, he met in the antechamberthree young men, serving in the illustriouscorps into which he was soliciting thehonor of being received, bearing the namesof Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.
or else that the bearersof these borrowed names had themselveschosen them on the day in which, from- 12 -caprice, discontent, or want of fortune, theyhad donned the simple Musketeer‘suniform.
We must confess these three strange namesstruck us; and it immediately occurred to usthat they were but pseudonyms, underwhich d‘Artagnan had disguiseddisguised namesperhaps illustrious