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Instead of answering, the soldier continued to advance, then, stopping just facing Father d'Aigrigny, he looked at him for a second with such an astounding mixture of curiosity, disdain, aversion, and audacity, that the ex-colonel of hussars quailed before the pale face and glowing eye of the veteran.
From the first morning of my arrival I found myself at once in the vortex of gayety; invitations poured in upon me thanks to the black-bearded Titeroff cards for dances here and there and receptions and dinners, while I spent each afternoon with Titeroff and a wandering Englishman named Mayhew, who told me he was an ex-colonel in the British Army.
"Anyway, we shall soon see," he added; "for somebody has spotted us already, and there comes the entire population of the place, turning out to look at us. And yes there goes a mounted man, as hard as his nag can lay legs to the ground, doubtless to shout his message. I will watch him." The ex-colonel relapsed into silence for a few minutes; then he resumed
"I'll just do the square thing myself, and you know it is always the commanding officer who is held responsible for leading his subordinates astray." Miss Archer was the daughter of an ex-colonel, which will account for her simile. There was dead silence for a full minute after she ceased speaking, and the faces in that quiet room would have been an interesting study for a physiognomist.
The ex-colonel pulled himself up short, and glanced anxiously at the faces of his companions. Had either of them seen? He noticed a look of horror and strong repugnance upon the faces of all three; but the horror was the kind that raises from the sight of some dreadful object, not the kind that is aroused upon witnessing some especially dreadful occurrence.
Besides, Monsieur de Fischtaminel is good looking for a man of thirty-six years; he received the cross of the Legion of Honor from Napoleon upon the field of battle, he is an ex-colonel, and had it not been for the Restoration, which put him upon half-pay, he would be a general. These are certainly extenuating circumstances.
This farm Arbuckle and my father visited together, with the result that, upon the urgent advice of his friend, the ex-colonel purchased it, just as it stood, house, stock, and implements, all complete.
"Oh, I don't know," answered the ex-colonel; "follow Elphinstone's example, I think, and have a suite made for this young woman," pinching Ida's cheek, "against the time when she is old enough to get married; and perhaps sell the rest some time or other." The professor glanced inquiringly at Mildmay. "I think I, too, will have a suite made," observed the sailor; "it seems rather a good idea.
Georges, the two trusty confidants in whose hands lay the secret of the coup d'état, that is to say the head of the President; that secret, which ought at no price to be allowed to transpire before the appointed hour, under risk of causing everything to miscarry, took it into their heads to confide it at once to two hundred men, in order "to test the effect," as the ex-Colonel Béville said later on, rather naïvely.
Besides, Monsieur de Fischtaminel is good looking for a man of thirty-six years; he received the cross of the Legion of Honor from Napoleon upon the field of battle, he is an ex-colonel, and had it not been for the Restoration, which put him upon half-pay, he would be a general. These are certainly extenuating circumstances.
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