Consider this passage from The ree Musketeers by Ale Dumas

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Consider this passage from The ree Musketeers by Ale Dumas Dumas s descriptions of the character Don Quixote suggest that young d Artagnan is Select one O handsome O fearful O respected O pitiful In the passage from The Three Musketeers the author references the novel Don Quixote written by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes in the early 1600s In Cervantes s story Don Quixote the main character goes on a quest to defend the helpless and destroy the wicked because he wants to be like the characters in the books he reads 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 sagacity the maxillary muscles enormously developed an infallible sign by which a Gascon may always be detected even without his cap and our young man wore a cap set off with a sort of feather the eye open and intelligent the nose hooked but finely chiseled Too big for a youth too small for a grown man an experienced eye might have taken him for a farmer s son upon a journey had it not been for the long sword which dangling from a leather baldric hit against the calves of its owner as he walked and against the rough side of his steed when he was on horseback For our young man had a steed which was the observed of all observers It was a B arn pony from twelve to fourteen years old yellow in his hide without a hair in his tail but not without windgalls on his legs which though going with his head lower than his knees rendering a martingale quite unnecessary contrived nevertheless to perform his eight leagues a day Unfortunately the qualities of this horse were so well concealed