Chapter 26

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[Footnote 182: #prérogatives#, _consideration_. For instance, one might choose to be shot rather than guillotined, to look death in the face with unbandaged eyes, and to give the command to fire, all matters regarded as questions of honor by soldiers sentenced to death.]

[Footnote 183: #sans bruit#, _unostentatiously_, but de Grignon takes it literally. The rest of this scene recalls not unsuccessfully Molière's _sans dot_ in "l'Avare," Act I., Scene 5.]