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Updated: June 1, 2025
Says Victor Bérard: "Such are the two languages and such the two peoples: in the latitude of Rome and in the latitude of Algiers, the Turk of Adrianople, like the Turk of Adalia, remains a man of the north and of the extreme north; in all climates the Arab remains a man of the south and of the extreme south.
His evidence would be valueless. If yes, if the Dauvray household should seek to fathom the history of the waif, how like an everyday history is the story in reply: "Marie Berard wished to disembarrass herself of her fatherless child. She yet wished to hold some claim on the future in its behalf. That explains Louise Moreau's motives." There is a high wall of defence around her whole position.
The under-maid is joyous at her promotion. Madame de Santos sleeps the sleep of the just. Happy woman! Marie Berard rages in her room, while her mistress sleeps in a bed once used by a Queen of France. The ticking clock drives her to madness. She throws it into the court-yard. Spurned! foiled! baffled! Ah, God! She will have both fortunes. She remembers that little paper of years ago.
It is the custom in certain assize towns for the President, after pronouncing sentence, to visit a prisoner who had been ordered for execution. M. Berard des Glajeux describes his visit to Fenayrou at Versailles. He was already in prison dress, sobbing.
D'Elbée is a nonentity, Lescure an invalid; Bonchamps is merciful, he is kind, and that implies folly; La Rochejaquelein is a superb sub-lieutenant; Silz is an officer good for the open field, but not suited for a war that needs a man of expedients; Cathelineau is a simple teamster; Stofflet is a crafty game-keeper; Bérard is inefficient; Boulainvillers is absurd; Charette is horrible.
The princely family, moreover, had among its members two troubadours, Berard des Baux in the twelfth century, and in the next Rambaud des Baux, who in 1236 distinguished himself by his songs in honour of Marie de Chateauvert and of the Countess of Argeuil. In 1244 the troubadours vied with each other in lauding Cecilia des Baux, who was called Passe-Rose, on account of her beauty.
In an exchange of opinion with the able Josephine, it is agreed that one of the young men or the Colonel shall be always at hand. Woods meditates a "coup de maitre." He intends, on his arrival, to remove the girl Louise where no malignity of Hardin can reach her, to some place where even Marie Berard will be powerless. He will force some one to show a hand.
Charles, sitting at table in Laon one Whitsuntide with fourteen kings, receives news of an invasion of the Saxons, who have taken Cologne, killed many Frankish nobles, and laid waste the country. The river is too deep to be crossed by the army, although the two young knights, Baldwin and Berard, succeed in doing so in quest of adventure.
An engineer named Pierre Jean rode all over the Mediterranean provinces on horseback announcing that he was the Holy Ghost. In Paris, Bérard, an omnibus conductor on the Panthéon-Courcelles line, likewise asserts that he incorporates the Paraclete, while a magazine article avers that the hope of Redemption has dawned in the person of the poet Jhouney.
An adjournment of "all hands," to "renew those pleasing assurances," is in order. "Ah, my old fox!" thinks Woods. "I am going to find out who gave Marie Berard that other child. But I won't ask YOU. YOUR TIME IS TOO VALUABLE, Judge Philip Hardin." He gives his driver an extra dollar at the old City Hall. Joe Woods thinks he is alone on the quest.
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