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A Mummer’s Tale

CHAPTER IV
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Where is the colonel of the 10th cohort?
So it's you?
Well then, my friend, your soldiers march past like so many pigs.

Madame Marie-Claire, come forward a little, so that I may teach you how to curtsy." He had a hundred eyes, a hundred mouths, and arms and legs everywhere.
In the house, Romilly was shaking hands with Monsieur Gombaut, of the Academy of Moral Sciences, who had dropped in as a neighbour.
"You may say what you will, Monsieur Gombaut, it is perhaps not accurate as far as facts are concerned, but it's drama." "Malet's conspiracy," replied Monsieur Gombaut, "remains, and will doubtless remain for a long time to come, an historical enigma.

The author of this drama has taken advantage of those points which are obscure in order to introduce dramatic elements.

But what, to my thinking, is beyond a doubt, is that General Malet, although associated with Royalists, was himself a Republican, and was working for the re-establishment of popular Government.

In the course of his examination during the trial, he pronounced a sublime and profound utterance.


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