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Updated: May 19, 2025
Denis had never cared for his rank, except when riding by his father's side on review-days; and now he liked it less than ever, as the pond lay gleaming before him, the fowl sailing and fluttering on the surface, and his dignity prevented his going among them. "What makes you say that Juste is here?" said Genifrede. "I have seen him take five fowl in the last five minutes."
He looked upon his master, now spreading his thin hands over the fire, his furrowed face now and then lighted up by the blaze which sprang fitfully through the smoke he thought of the hall of audience at Port-au-Prince, of the gardens at Pongaudin, of the Place d'Armes at Cap Francais on review-days, of the military journeys and official fetes of the Commander-in-Chief, and he looked upon him now.
Live without ever touching swords, lances, carbines, saddles? What a queer feeling it gave one to see the regiment go past the saluting base on review-days, at the gallop, with lances down. One wanted to shout, to laugh to cry. Oh, to lead the regiment as Father did horse and man one welded piece of living mechanism.
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