About this story
Quarrels braid you into Athos, Porthos and Aramis; you hold the bastion Saint-Gervais over breakfast while La Rochelle's sortie interrupts the cheese, and stand on the bank of the Lys when Milady walks upright to the executioner in his red cloak. Sixty-eight chapters carry you from a garret on the Rue des Fossoyeurs to a corner table kept like a garrison.
Who you’ll meet
The scarred stranger of Meung, who has just taken the letter to Treville, with the innkeeper holding out the emptied coat at one edge and the young noblewoman who outranks him watching from the carriage window — the three people the reader, d'Artagnan, is about to lose an introduction to.
How it opens
You left Gascony with a patched horse, a few coins, and your father's letter to Treville.
The road to Paris made the animal's unusual color an announcement at every village.
FatherGuard your honor, seek worthy quarrels, and trust the captain who knew me.
FatherA gentleman may begin poor without permitting anyone to make him small.
Meung InnkeeperThen the gentleman should enter before his horse frightens my customers.
Choose
My horse has survived worse opinions than yours.
Give him oats and reserve judgment until he finishes them.