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Updated: May 2, 2025
When Custine, a few weeks before his death, left the army to visit some of the neighbouring towns, the command devolved on Laveneur, who received, along with other official papers, a list of countersigns, which, having probably been made some time, and not altered conformably to the changes of the day, contained, among others, the words Condorcet Constitution; and these were in their turn given out.
It was his duty to record the paroles and countersigns, the various orders for the next day, and to see that they were attended to. In May the new provincial troops began to come in.
"You have come cursed inopportune," snarled Maurice. "What do you want?" "I want to give you the countersigns, so that when you start for Bleiberg to-morrow morning you'll have no trouble." "Bleiberg!" exclaimed Maurice. "Bleiberg. Madame desires me to say to you that you are to start for that city in the morning, to fetch those slips of parchment which have caused us all these years of worry.
It was only a dream, the curé has told us not to be afraid of them, I snap my fingers at that old Bergeron with her stupid countersigns, je m'en fricasse! But, my ring my ring? I have dropped it, that's all, while I was groping around the room in my sleep. After a while I will look for it and find it." She washed her face and smoothed her hair and walked into the kitchen.
"They don't say what kind, but I've got a pretty good stock here to choose from." He was at his ease in banter again, but it struck unpleasantly on me that there was something behind. "Oh, here's a queer friend," he said suddenly, looking to the door. "I'd better speak to him on the matter of countersigns." "By all means," I said, turning in my chair to survey the new-comer.
Presently M. Étienne cried out: "Death of my life! Had I fought there in the burrow, I should have changed the history of France!" A chance encounter. The street before us was as orderly as the aisle of Notre Dame. Few way-farers passed us; those there were talked together as placidly as if love-trysts and mêlées existed not, and tunnels and countersigns were but the smoke of a dream.
As soon as one of our compatriots joins a secret society his first care is to go to his favorite restaurant and to confide, under a bond of the most absolute secrecy, to his most intimate friend, what he has known for about five minutes, the aim of the conspiracy, names of the actors, the day, hour, and place of the rendezvous, the passwords and countersigns.
Bonaparte places a postilion on the throne of Naples, and a sergeant on the throne of Sweden, employing inequality to demonstrate equality; Louis XVIII. at Saint-Ouen countersigns the declaration of the rights of man. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.
They spent a good deal of time, also, asleep in their accustomed corners, with their chairs tilted back against the wall; awaking, however, once or twice in a forenoon, to bore one another with the several thousandth repetition of old sea-stories, and mouldy jokes, that had grown to be passwords and countersigns among them.
Ah er do we require a countersign in order to get out of the building?" The mayor was walking toward the private door. "No, sir!" he said, mildly. "I hope you hear that, Governor North! I was compelled to give countersigns to your soldiers quite emphatic countersigns. The new regime is to be complimented." Morrison threw open the door. "That's all, Rellihan! Report to the chief!"
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