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Even the street-children know this much, and mock the despondent victim of fortune; even the dogs seem instinctively to divine the change and bark at him as he passes by.... Such is the power of official displeasure; and the penalty of a blunder or a breach of discipline may extend considerably further but in feudal times the offender would have been simply told to perform harakiri.
No church-bells tolled for his death, and the street-children did not go on their way singing, as they always do, to the sound of funeral bells. "Viens, corps, ta fosse t'attend!" for Pere S was a heretic, and could not have slept in consecrated ground had he died before the République Française removed religious restrictions from all burial-places.
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