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Originally Posted by Hitch
So, Musketeer Paul, today, dates some married woman. He needs money, so he convinces her to steal her own jewelry, that her husband gave her, and give it to him. He takes it and pretty much then promptly dumps her, and parties with his buddies, yucking it up about how he conned her into doing so.
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That's awful, but it's
intended to be awful. I'll cite Seinfeld as a modern equivalent in the same vein. Dumas is mocking the Musketeers pretty explicitly. We're supposed to enjoy the ride at the same time as we realize that they're not all they're cracked up to be, or consider themselves to be.