THE THREE MUSKERTEERS ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 1 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | THE THREE MUSKERTEERS ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 1 1. The Three Presents Of D Artagnan The Elder On the first Monday of the month of April 1625 the market town of Meung in which the author of Romance of the Rose was born appeared to be in as perfect a state of revolution as if the Huguenots had just made a second La Rochelle of it. Many citizens seeing the women flying toward the High Street leaving their children crying at the open doors hastened to don the cuirass and supporting their somewhat uncertain courage with a musket or a partisan directed their steps toward the hostelry of the Jolly Miller before which was gathered increasing every minute a compact group vociferous and full of curiosity. In those times panics were common and few days passed without some city or other registering in its archives an event of this kind. There were nobles who made war against each other there was the king who made war against the cardinal there was Spain which made war against the king. Then in addition to these concealed or public secret or open wars there were robbers mendicants Huguenots wolves and scoundrels who made war upon everybody. The citizens always took up arms readily against thieves wolves or scoundrels often against nobles or Huguenots sometimes against the king but never against cardinal or Spain. It resulted then from this habit that on the said first Monday of April 1625 the citizens on hearing the clamor and seeing neither the red-and-yellow standard nor the livery of the Duc de Richelieu rushed toward the hostel of the Jolly Miller. When arrived there the cause of the hubbub was apparent to all. A young man--we can sketch his portrait at a dash. Imagine to yourself a Don Quixote of eighteen a Don Quixote without his corselet without his coat of mail without his cuisses a Don Quixote clothed in a woolen doublet the blue color of which had faded into a nameless shade between lees of wine and a heavenly azure face long and brown high cheek bones a sign of .
