How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"I believe in the times in which you live men are more engaged in their own interests and their own pleasures than they were in our times. You have sought a secluded life; that is a great happiness, but you have lost your strength in it. We four, more weaned from these delicate abstractions which constitute your joy,- we found in ourselves much greater powers of resistance when misfortune came." (33.36)
D'Artagnan points out the ways that friendships were stronger in the past, indicating that times have changed.
Quote #8
"Hush, Messieurs! you disturb the King."
D'Artagnan sighed.
"All is over!" said he; "the Musketeers of the present day are not those of his Majesty Louis XIII. All is over!" (52.72 – 52.74)
A sign that the old school way of doing things is rapidly disappearing – D'Artagnan's powerful role as an officer of the Musketeers is becoming a thing of the past.
Quote #9
"Great they will be, I feel; but if by chance I should not think them so? I have seen war, Sire; I have seen peace; I have served Richelieu and Mazarin; I have been scorched with your father at the fire of Rochelle, riddled with thrusts like a sieve, having made a new skin ten times, as serpents do. After affronts and injustices, I have a command which was formerly something, because it gave the bearer the right of speaking as he liked to his King." (53.64)
In this excerpt from D'Artagnan's speech to the King, D'Artagnan looks to the past to see exactly what he will be losing in the future if he bows to Louis's will.