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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: the others, and that we are called among the Musketeers and the
Guards, at court and in the city, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, or
the Three Inseparables? And yet, as you come from Dax or Pau--"
"From Tarbes," said D'Artagnan.
"It is probable you are ignorant of this little fact," said
Athos.
"My faith!" replied D'Artagnan, "you are well named, gentlemen;
and my adventure, if it should make any noise, will prove at
least that your union is not founded upon contrasts."
In the meantime, Porthos had come up, waved his hand to Athos,
and then turning toward D'Artagnan, stood quite astonished.
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