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Updated: May 15, 2025
'Reasons of State mere reasons of State. He had the audacity to tell me so. 'I understood, sir, that you had other views? said Adiron. 'Well, yes, we had virtually agreed upon our choice, I may say, gentlemen. 'Certainly, sir. And you made that clear to the Chancellor? 'I did so perfectly clear. I told him in the most reasonable manner that we wanted no condemned rabble in the Maäsaun Guard!
If you recollect, the matter over which he was pleased to differ with me was my expressed opinion that though a good shot may bring down swallows to perfection, he might miss a man at a moderate distance. 'You have won the toss, remonstrated Adiron. 'Yes, unluckily.
What could Rallywood mean by throwing away his life? But Adiron backed up Rallywood; he was going to bring this thing to pass! Rallywood should have a last satisfaction in this life, because he was worthy of it. 'If Lieutenant Unziar chooses to withdraw his opinion, he said, 'of course Captain Rallywood will not go any further into the matter.
'And you are coming too, are you not? went on Madame de Sagan, with a note in her voice that Rallywood was learning to dread. 'I fancy not. Unziar and Adiron have been mentioned. 'Yes, Anthony Unziar, because he is my cousin, and for the sake of Valerie. Also Captain Colendorp. I do not like him, he is always black and sneering, but the Count chose him yesterday, and then I suggested yourself.
There was old walrus-faced Wallenloup; thin, dark, reckless Colendorp; Adiron, whose great bulk behind a cavalry sword was a sight for the gods, and so on; the three lieutenants following closely in the footsteps of the three lieutenants who had been before them; men who went to the rendezvous of a duel in all comfort, affecting to be infinitely more afraid of catching cold than of being killed; men who kissed the wife and dispatched the husband with equal skill and as little noise as might be; men who were feared by a rough, swaggering, raucous soldiery, whom they only knew through the hard-faced sergeants; men, in fact, who lived out their debonair, picturesquely evil lives to the satisfaction of themselves and of few others.
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