Not at all. You can clasp me to your bosom and swear eternal devotion, too, if you'd like.
The Three Musketeers also doesn't seem to put actual understanding of the other person in pride of place when speaking of love between a man and a woman - witness d'Artagnan and Constance, for example, they barely know each other (or have a chance to, to be fair) except for the fact that they have similar loyalties.
It is a bit sudden, isn't it? D'Artagnan strikes me as the type who often falls in love "at first sight," at least with women (with men, he apparently feels the need to almost fight a duel with them first). He and Constance barely spend any time together, but the times they do meet are very dramatic and "romantic," and it's possible that he might have fallen in love more with the idea of Constance than with Constance herself.
Much like the Duke of Buckingham, who's apparently completely obsessed with Anne of Austria based on three or four brief meetings. Romantic love seems to happen very suddenly in 17th century France. It also doesn't seem all that concerned with things like monogamy ^_^. Apparently, if your husband is neglecting you, you're perfectly justified in cheating on him, as long as you pick a lover who's young and handsome and professes his devotion with sincerity (or one could follow the example of Mme. Coquenard and bribe a hot young soldier to be one's boytoy).
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Not at all. You can clasp me to your bosom and swear eternal devotion, too, if you'd like.
The Three Musketeers also doesn't seem to put actual understanding of the other person in pride of place when speaking of love between a man and a woman - witness d'Artagnan and Constance, for example, they barely know each other (or have a chance to, to be fair) except for the fact that they have similar loyalties.
It is a bit sudden, isn't it? D'Artagnan strikes me as the type who often falls in love "at first sight," at least with women (with men, he apparently feels the need to almost fight a duel with them first). He and Constance barely spend any time together, but the times they do meet are very dramatic and "romantic," and it's possible that he might have fallen in love more with the idea of Constance than with Constance herself.
Much like the Duke of Buckingham, who's apparently completely obsessed with Anne of Austria based on three or four brief meetings. Romantic love seems to happen very suddenly in 17th century France. It also doesn't seem all that concerned with things like monogamy ^_^. Apparently, if your husband is neglecting you, you're perfectly justified in cheating on him, as long as you pick a lover who's young and handsome and professes his devotion with sincerity (or one could follow the example of Mme. Coquenard and bribe a hot young soldier to be one's boytoy).