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Part I. PROLOGUE
Chapter I
Chapter II
This last remark made them all laugh. They were remembering a challenge set by rivals for the title of best drinker in Paris. A dragoon guard swore he could drink out a whole cellar and still mount his charger. All the four friends swore that given the chance they could match his boast. But only Athos was being serious. His friends had no idea of the demons that haunted Athos after the sun went down. Wine was his only refugee from going mad. After Athos drank that dragoon guard under the table his friends carried his prone form back to his billet
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Part II
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXVIII
Chapter XXIX
Chapter XXX
The three swordsmen had just seen off their adversaries. One of the cardinal's guard may have been fatally wounded. Yet none of these young Frenchmen showed any signs of remorse. On the contrary they were determined to do it all again if their honor was challenged. The tall one was built like a bear. His hands were twice as big as those of any normal man. The slim one was older but more noble in bearing. Finally the short one was of no great physique but generated an aura of danger. They were distant but considered their military bounds to be more scared.
Athos was the leader but Aramis was the thinker. Porthos was the muscle! As a threesome they were unequaled for bravery and cunning! They had to be careful defending their honor by dueling. The King had outlawed all duels. His chief minister Cardinal Richelieu was unlikely to go easy on anyone caught fighting with his guards. If no appeal to the King was possible then even their powerful uncle Captain M. de Treville could save them from the bastille.
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"Tell none of this to D'Artagnan. He is too rash by far where this woman is concerned. This cannot help in not making the Cardinal his enemy. Anyone who assists the enemies of Richelieu becomes his enemy. We have a protector in our Captain. But D'Artagnan has no protector in Paris."
Seeing the same danger ahead for his young friend Aramis said,
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