text:  Moreover deprived during the greater part of these twenty years of the society of his three fiends who had in some measure formed his character and from the example of two of whom he had caught much of what chivalry and elegance he possessed--deprived also of opportunities of displaying those peculiar talents for bold intrigue which had once enabled him to thwart the projects of Richelieu himself D'Artagnan has degenerated into a mere trooper