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Pass over, also, the interminable and inextricable dispute about the precise meaning and application of the terms "mobilization," "partial mobilization," "complete mobilization," "precautionary measures," "Kriegsgefahr," an so on. That is an unfathomable morass wherein many deceptions hide. In that controversy each opponent always charges the other with lying, and a wise neutral doubts both.
Besides, how could the administration of justice, which rests on fixed, rigid, and unchangeable bases, proceed hand in hand with another administration placed on the quicksand of instantaneous decisions, and surrounded by stratagems and deceptions? Justice should never have anything to do with secret police, unless it be to condemn it.
Such is the allegory, or morality, of the Lost Train. I am not alluding to those of Semiramis. Though, now I come to think of it, this is the moment for protesting against one of those unnecessary deceptions from which the candid mind of children is allowed to suffer. And it was in such relations to the forces of gravitation that my infancy conceived those gardens of the Babylonish Queen.
Old pains keep on gnawing at your heart, old desires, old deceptions, old dreams, assailing you in the dead stillness of your present where nothing moves except the irrecoverable minutes of your life. De Barral was out and, for a time speechless, being led away almost before he had taken possession of the free world, by his daughter. Flora controlled herself well.
"Jacques," she observes, "belonged to this large family of disillusioned thinkers; they had their raison d'être, historical and social. He comes on the scene in the novel, already worn by deceptions; he thought to revive through his love, and he does not revive. Marriage was for him only the drop of bitterness that made the cup overflow.
Gabrielle, conforming to her friend's action, looked at the sight and was silent. A single look, one of those by which two souls support each other, sufficed to communicate their thoughts. Each loved with that love so divinely like unto itself at every instant of its eternity that it is not conscious of devotion or sacrifice or exaction, it fears neither deceptions nor delay.
And then he was in love with his wife, therefore open to deceptions without end, for is not all love a longing after what never was and never can be? He was beaten. But scorn him not for yielding. Think how he was beaten. Could he help it that the life in him proved too much for the death with which he had sided?
"You have owned to faults that you have committed, and deceptions that you have sanctioned," he went on "with nothing to gain, and everything to lose, by telling the truth. Who but a good woman would have done that?" There was a deeper feeling in him than he had ventured to express. It betrayed itself by a momentary trembling in his voice. Catherine drew a little closer to him.
"Thuillier," she said, to evade the subject, "Thuillier made to think himself a political character! oh! oh!" "But, my dear Flavie, half the absurdities of life are the result of such conspiracies; and men are not alone in these deceptions.
"What!" exclaimed Marianne, "those far-famed operas that delight the world are they nothing more than clever deceptions?" "Nothing more," cried Gluck.
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