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What does this chapter show about how the musketeers differ from other kinds of soldiers?
Throughout the novel so far, it has repeatedly been implied that the musketeers are elite warriors and are not to be trifled with. Notwithstanding their scuffles with others on the way to London, Porthos, Athos, and Aramis are portrayed as formidable warriors who can hold their own in extraordinary situations. In this chapter, readers get a glimpse of that when d'Artagnan and the musketeers go to have lunch at the Bastion, and manage to talk and kill a great many troops all at the same time. The fact that they're treated as war heroes after they escape the Bastion also shows how...
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