We must fess the three strange names strubsp;us; and it immediately occurred to us that they were but pudonyms, under whibsp;d''Artagnan had disguid names perhaps illustrious, or el that the bearers of the borrowed names had themlves them on the day in whibsp;from capribsp;distent, or want of fortune, they had donned the simple Musketeer''s uniform.
From that moment we had no rest till we could find some trabsp;in porary works of the extraordinary names whibsp;had so strongly awakened our curiosity.
The catalogue alone of the books we read with this objebsp;would fill a whole chapter, whibsp;although it might be very instructive, would certainly afford our readers but little amument. It will suffibsp;then, to tell them that at the moment at whibsp;disced by so many fruitless iigations, we were about to abandon our arbsp;we at length found, guided by the ls of our illustrious friend Paulin Paris, a manuscript in folio, endord 4772 or 4773, we do not recollebsp;whibsp;having for title, "Memoirs of the te de la Fere, Toug Some Events Whibsp;Pasd in Franbsp;Toward the End of the Reign of King Louis XIII and the e of the Reign of King Louis XIV."
It may be easily imagined how great was our joy when, in turning over this manuscript, our last hope, we found at the tweh page the name of Athos, at the twenty-venth the name of Porthos, and at the thirty-first the name of Aramis.