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Updated: June 18, 2025
At this time when every life should be consecrated to the glory and safety of France!" But the strain of unhappiness caused by military reverses had spoiled Colonel Feraud's character. Like many other men he was rendered wicked by misfortune. "I cannot consider General D'Hubert's person of any account either for the glory or safety of France," he snapped viciously.
This time the pretty maid nodded slightly. "He has!" cried Lieut. D'Hubert. "And went out again? What for? Couldn't he keep quietly indoors! What a lunatic! My dear girl " Lieut. D'Hubert's natural kindness of disposition and strong sense of comradeship helped his powers of observation.
"She rang the great bell at the gate and roused all the household we were all asleep yet. You may imagine what a terrible shock.... Adèle, my dear child, sit up." General D'Hubert's expression was not that of a man who imagines with facility. He did, however, fish out of chaos the notion that his prospective mother-in-law had died suddenly, but only to dismiss it at once.
And it must be said, too, that General D'Hubert's turned-up feet looked thoroughly dead. General Feraud expanded his lungs for a stentorian shout to his seconds, but, from what he felt to be an excessive scrupulousness, refrained for a while. "I will just go and see first whether he breathes yet," he mumbled to himself, leaving carelessly the shelter of his tree.
Like a man just waking from a deep sleep he stared without any expression at the evening sky. Lieut. D'Hubert's urgent shouts to the old gardener produced no effect not so much as to make him shut his toothless mouth. Then he remembered that the man was stone deaf. All that time the girl struggled, not with maidenly coyness, but like a pretty, dumb fury, kicking his shins now and then.
The unfavourable opinion entertained of him in the more irreconcilable Bonapartist circles, though it rested on nothing more solid than the unsupported pronouncement of General Feraud, was directly responsible for General D'Hubert's retention on the active list. As to General Feraud, his rank was confirmed, too.
"I represented to him that it would be only fair to let you have some authentic news of your adversary," he continued. "You'll be glad to hear he's getting better fast." Lieut. D'Hubert's face exhibited no conventional signs of gladness. He continued to walk the floor of the dusty bare room. "Take this chair, doctor," he mumbled. The doctor sat down.
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