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The self-delusion pleased him, and seemed to add the clinching argument to his resolution. It was not suicide; it was escape certainly no more than escape he intended! And this miserable sophism of self-apology, the last flashes of expiring conscience, helped to light up his pale, determined face with satisfaction. He began coolly to divest himself of his coat.
Cigarette glanced round, and saw all with one flash of her eyes; then she knelt down beside the heap of forage, and, for the first thing, dressed his wounds with the cold, clear water, and washed away the dust and the blood that covered his breast. "He is too good a soldier to die; one must do it for France," she said to herself, in a kind of self-apology.
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