this passage from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

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this passage from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Dumas s descriptions of the character Don Quixote suggest that young d Artagnan is Select one handsome O fearful respected O pitiful Excerpt from the Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 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 qualitio