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OW that he was no longer inclined to the saddle and liked to keep his room, General Cartier de Chalmot had reduced his division to cards in small cardboard boxes, which he placed every morning on his desk, and which he arranged every evening on the white deal shelves above his iron bedstead. He marshalled his cards day by day with scrupulous1 exactitude, in an order which filled him with satisfaction. Every card represented a man. The symbol by which he henceforth thought of his officers, non-commissioned officers and men, satisfied his craving3 for method and suited his natural bent4 of mind. Cartier de Chalmot had always been noted5 as an excellent officer. General Parroy, under whom he had served, said of him: “In Captain de Chalmot the capacity for obedience6 is exactly balanced by the power of command. A rare and priceless quality of the true military spirit.”
Cartier de Chalmot had always been scrupulous51 in the performance of his duty. Being upright, diffident, and an excellent penman, he had at last hit upon a system which fitted in with his abilities, and, in command of his division of cards, he applied7 his method with the utmost vigour8.
On this particular day, having risen according to his custom at five o’clock in the morning, he had passed from his tub to his work-table; and, whilst the sun was mounting with solemn slowness above the elms of the Archbishop’s palace, the general was organising man?uvres by manipulating the boxes of cards that symbolised reality, and that were actually identical with reality to an intelligence which, like his, was excessively reverent9 towards everything symbolic10.
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lawfulness
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piety
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trifling
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n.百科全书 | |
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intrigue
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eulogy
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disapproval
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garrison
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automaton
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