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It would be very difficult for any modern political system, however perfect people may think it, to work once more such miracles as were wrought in those ages when the Church as the stay and support of the human intellect." "Why?" asked Genestas.
"On the evening before the battle of Friedland," he went on, after a moment, "I had been sent with a despatch to General Davoust's quarters, and I was on the way back to my own, when at a turn in the road I found myself face to face with the Emperor. Napoleon gave me a look. "'You are Captain Genestas, are you not? he said. "'Yes, your Majesty. "'You were out in Egypt? "'Yes, your Majesty.
Everything within it was in keeping with the ruinous state of the gateway, and with the clothing worn by its owner. There was an utter disregard for everything not essentially useful, which was visible even in the smallest trifles. Benassis took Genestas through the kitchen, that being the shortest way to the dining-room.
Genestas was again surprised when he entered the doctor's room, a bare-looking apartment with no adornment on the walls save an old-fashioned wall-paper of a yellowish tint with a pattern of brown roses over it; the color had gone in patches here and there.
It seems to me to be a right and necessary thing that the masses should be kept in tutelage for the good of society." "This system of yours runs so clean contrary to everybody's notions nowadays, that we have some right to ask your reasons for it," said Genestas, interrupting the doctor. "By all means, captain."
I am not ill; I have spent a pleasant day, and I will go back to-morrow. Whenever you come to Grenoble, you will find that you have one more friend there, who will be your friend through thick and thin. Pierre Joseph Genestas' sword and purse are at your disposal, and I am yours to the last drop of my blood. Well, after all, your words have fallen on good soil.
"Up already, Commandant Bluteau?" cried Benassis, as he came upon his guest. "You hear the drum beat in the morning wherever you go, even in the country! You are a regular soldier!" "Are you all right?" replied Genestas, holding out his hand with a friendly gesture. "I am never really all right," answered Benassis, half merrily, half sadly. "Did you sleep well, sir?" inquired Jacquotte.
The mistress, our Mme. Vigneau, has turned as white as white can be, so that we are frightened about her." "Oh, well, then," Benassis said cheerfully, "I must leave the table," and he rose to go. In spite of the doctor's entreaties, Genestas flung down his table-napkin, and swore in a soldierly fashion that he would not finish his dinner without his host.
"You see, commandant, at night when every one is sleeping, I do not sleep.... The thought of my troubles lies heavily on me, and then I try to forget them by taking tea. It produces a sort of nervous inebriation a kind of slumber, without which I could not live. Do you still decline to take it?" "For my own part," said Genestas, "I prefer your Hermitage." "By all means.
It is a good road; shall we gallop?" "Will your animal keep up with mine?" asked Genestas. "Heigh! Neptune!" he called to his horse, and in a moment the officer had been carried far ahead, and was lost to sight in a cloud of dust, but in spite of the paces of his horse he still heard the doctor beside him.
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