Now a resuscitation, Monsieur, is a thing so unheard of as to constitute an actual disorder." "You will admit, nevertheless, that it is a very happy disorder." "There's no such thing as a happy disorder.

Consider, morever, that the deceased is not a common sort of a man.

If the question concerned a vagabond without house or home, one could use some tolerance in regard to it.

But this is a soldier, an officer, of high rank and decorated too; a man who has occupied an exalted position in the army.

The _army_, Monsieur! It will not do to touch the army!" "Eh! Monsieur, I touch the army like a surgeon who tends its wounds.