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Updated: May 27, 2025
How, asked they, could any one employ a man whose father had been a Septembrist, a Bonapartist, and a drunkard to boot? The old man was sure to leave plenty of gold pieces behind him.
The old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the passage of words that were barely audible, like breaths in the death agony: "Ah! heartless lad! Ah! clubbist! Ah! wretch! Ah! Septembrist!" Reproaches in the low voice of an agonizing man, addressed to a corpse.
He idolized him after his own fashion, with an accompaniment of snappishness and boxes on the ear; but, this child once gone, he felt a black void in his heart; he would allow no one to mention the child to him, and all the while secretly regretted that he was so well obeyed. At first, he hoped that this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would return.
How, asked they, could any one employ a man whose father had been a Septembrist, a Bonapartist, and a drunkard to boot? The old man was sure to leave plenty of gold pieces behind him.
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