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Updated: May 13, 2025
He had in his dry mouth the faint, sickly flavour of fear, not the honourable fear of a young girl's candid and amused glance, but the fear of death and the honourable man's fear of cowardice. But if true courage consists in going out to meet an odious danger from which our body, soul and heart recoil together General D'Hubert had the opportunity to practise it for the first time in his life.
Offspring of a blacksmith and some village troll.... See what comes of mixing yourself up with that sort of people." "You have made shoes yourself, Chevalier." "Yes. But I am not the son of a shoemaker. Neither are you, Monsieur D'Hubert.
Whereas Feraud had been always a mere fighter but a dead shot, unluckily. "I must draw his fire at the greatest possible range," said General D'Hubert to himself. At that moment he saw something white moving far off between the trees the shirt of his adversary. He stepped out at once between the trunks, exposing himself freely; then, quick as lightning, leaped back.
As from bravado or carelessness they chose to speak in loud tones, General D'Hubert, who saw no reason why he should change his seat, heard every word. They did not seem to be the personal friends of General Feraud. His name came up amongst others.
The Chevalier came out at once with that benevolent resignation some old people display towards the fugue of youth. Older by a quarter of a century than General D'Hubert, he looked upon him in the secret of his heart as a rather troublesome youngster in love.
He wants you to know that this affair is by no means at an end. He intends to send you his seconds directly he has regained his strength providing, of course, the army is not in the field at that time." "He intends, does he? Why, certainly," spluttered Lieut. D'Hubert in a passion.
In this matter vanity is what leads us astray. It is our vanity which hurries us into situations from which we must come out damaged. Whereas pride is our safeguard by the reserve it imposes on the choice of our endeavour, as much as by the virtue of its sustaining power. General D'Hubert was proud and reserved. He had not been damaged by casual love affairs successful or otherwise.
It was a caprice, a charming fancy which the first Minister of Police of the second Restoration was anxious to gratify. For that man, often compared in wiliness of conduct to a fox, but whose ethical side could be worthily symbolized by nothing less emphatic than a skunk, was as much possessed by his love as General D'Hubert himself.
"If you think this quiet enough," said General D'Hubert, looking round at the vine-fields, framed in purple lines, and dominated by the nest of grey and drab walls of a village clustering around the top of a conical hill, so that the blunt church tower seemed but the shape of a crowning rock "if you think this spot quiet enough, you can speak to him at once.
He had also put on his newest dolman, she added in a tone as if this conversation were getting on her nerves and turned away brusquely. Lieutenant D'Hubert, without questioning the accuracy of the implied deduction, did not see that it advanced him much on his official quest. For his quest after Lieutenant Feraud had an official character.
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