The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science ..., volume 9
The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science ..., volume 9
Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Richard Stockton
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Placed against the same wall as Lecomte, at two paces from his body, he faced death to the end, and spoke in a dignified manner. When the guns were lowered, he instinctively raised his left arm before his face, and the old Republican died in the attitude of Caesar. At the spot where they fell, against the cold wall, bare like the target of a shooting gallery, a few branches of a peach-tree are still spread out, and at the top blooms an early flower, all white, spared by the bullets and unsullie...d by the powder. On quitting the Rue des Hosiers, through the silent roads rising one above the other, along the sides of the hill, full of gardens and terraces, I came to the former cemetery of Mont- martre, that had been reopened a few days before, to receive the bodies of the two generals. It is a village cemetery, bare, with- out trees, adorned by nothing but gravestones. Like those rapacious peasants, who in ploughing their land encroach each day on the pathway that crosses their fields, making it finally disappear altogether; so here, death has invaded everything, even the alleys.
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