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Updated: May 23, 2025
Tchernoff's socialism and nationality brought vividly to his mind a series of feverish images bombs, daggers, stabbings, deserved expiations on the gallows, and exile to Siberia. No, he was not desirable as a friend. . . . But now Don Marcelo was experiencing an abrupt reversal of his convictions regarding alien ideas.
In the cellars were piled up enough paintings, furniture, statues, and draperies to equip several other dwellings. Don Marcelo began to complain of the cramped space in an apartment costing twenty-eight thousand francs a year in reality large enough for a family four times the size of his.
Marcelo seems to have been the most stoically brave of the many Leonese martyrs. A soldier or subaltern in the Roman legion, he was daring enough to throw his sword at the feet of his commander, who stood in front of the regiment, saying: "I obey the eternal King and scorn your silent gods of stone and wood. If to obey Cæsar is to revere him as an idol, I refuse to obey him."
The night had weighed her down pitilessly with the pressure of many years. All the energy with which she had been working to free Desnoyers disappeared on seeing him again. "Oh, Master . . . Master," she moaned convulsively; and she flung herself into his arms, bursting into tears. Don Marcelo did not need to ask anything further; he dreaded to know the truth.
But in spite of the silence of the maids, Don Marcelo was always in fear of some outburst of exalted patriotism, and that his wife's sister might suddenly find herself confined in a concentration camp under suspicion of having dealings with the enemy. Frau von Hartrott made his uneasiness worse.
The rue de la Paix was the spot which he most admired in his visits to the enemy's city. Don Marcelo noticed the strong mixture of perfumes which came from his hair, his moustache, his entire body. Various little jars from the dressing table were on the mantel. "What a filthy thing war is!" exclaimed the German.
As the door of this sub-cellar was broken, like all the others in the building, a pile of boxes and furniture was heaped in the entrance way. Don Marcelo passed the rest of the night tormented with the cold the only thing which worried him just then. He had abandoned all hope of life; even the images of his family seemed blotted from his memory.
Of all the inimical group, this man was the only one for whom Don Marcelo felt a vague attraction. "Although a German, he appears a good sort," meditated the old man, eyeing him carefully. In times of peace, he must have been stout, but now he showed the loose and flaccid exterior of one who has just lost much in weight.
The farmers, transformed into soldiers, were watching with great admiration their comrade charged with the management of these machines. They looked upon him as one of the wizards so venerated and feared in all the countryside. Don Marcelo was struck by the general transformation in the French uniforms. All were now clad in gray-blue, from head to foot.
The mass of Papa Marcelo and other melodies was the result of this, but things did not advance much. It was necessary in order that music should be purified inside the Church that the great secular musical movement should begin with the Italian Monteverde, with the Frenchman Rameau, and with the Germans Sebastian Bach and Handel; what splendid times, Gabriel!
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