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Originally Posted by Catlady
Oh, I think you can get Milady off the hook for Constance. Let's assume a version of the story in which Milady escapes execution and writes an account of her life, which is preserved for years, and finally found by someone who decides to correct the record and publish the "real story," not the self-justifying one the musketeers told.
In Milady's version, the musketeers are the criminals and they lie about Constance's death--perhaps she dies accidentally, perhaps she stays in the convent. They lie about Milady's execution because they are embarrassed that she outwitted them.
Okay, maybe it's more a reinvention than a retelling, but since the musketeers are already clearly a pack of thugs, why believe their story? All that's needed is to turn up their deceit and lawlessness a little bit more.
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Well, yes--if we change the story rather extremely, sure. I was thinking more that we had to color within the lines, (somehat like MoA), but what the hell? Why not? As you say, the boys are hardly such paragons of virtue that their rendition of the story is beyond reproach.
:-)
Hitch