CHAPTER VI.

D'ARTAGNAN IN HIS FORTIETH YEAR. Alas! since we bade farewell to d'Artagnan in No. 12 Rue des Fossoyeurs, many years have elapsed, and many things have happened. D'Artagnan had not failed in his career, but circumstances had been adverse to him. So long as he was surrounded by his friends, he retained his youth and the poetry of his character. His nature was of that fine, and ingenuous order, which assimilates itself easily to the dispositions of others. Athos imparted to him his greatness of soul; Porthos, his ent…