text:  He drinks it is true enough to prostrate any three ordinary men; but he takes his liquor as he does every thing else so much like a gentleman and moreover there is so much self-devotion and generosity in his character such dignity of manner and rectitude of feeling--his temper so even and kindly--his courage so heroic--that he is unquestionably the most amiable and interesting of the _dramatis personae_ preferable to D'Artagnan to whom premature worldly wisdom gives a hardness bordering upon egotism