Excerpt from The Works of Alexandre Dumas, Vol. 2 of 9: The Three Musketeers, Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; Twenty Year After, a Sequel to "the Three Musketeers" But, as it is well known, that which strikes the capricious mind of the poet is not always that which affects the mass of his readers. Now, while admiring, as others doubtless will admire, the curious details we have to relate, the thing which attracted our attention most strongly is a thing to which no one before ourselves had given a thought