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Updated: June 2, 2025
"What matters it, animal, by whom thy crime was prompted? Thou art the perpetrator of it and to thee comes punishment! Shackles and prisons are in store for thee! I shall " But what the Major Gontard had in mind to do toward assisting the march of retributive justice is immaterial since he did not do it.
Indeed, it was only the preposterous temerity of Monsieur Brisson despairingly clutching at any chance to retrieve his broken fortunes that put him in the running at all. With the others, in such slighting terms referred to by Madame Vic Monsieur Peloux, a notary of standing, and the Major Gontard, of the Twenty-ninth of the Line the case was different. It had its sides.
When leaves of absence permitted him to make retirements to his coquette little estate at Les Martigues, the Major Gontard was as another Cincinnatus: with the minor differences that the lickerish cookings of the brave Marthe his old femme de ménage: a veritable protagonist among cooks, even in Provence checked him on the side of severe simplicity; that he would have welcomed with effusion lictors, or others, come to announce his advance to a regiment; and that he made no use whatever of a plow.
As the Major Gontard watched this pleasing spectacle his heart was all aglow within him and his face was of a radiance comparable only with that of an Easter-morning sun. To himself he was saying: "It is a dream that has come to me! With the disgraced enemy in retreat, and with the Shah de Perse for my banner, it is that I hold victoriously the whole universe in the hollow of my hand!"
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