Chapter

 1       XX| accomplices here. All the retired officers stand ready to assist them.”~ ~“
 2      XXI|          or three hundred retired officers will come to open the gates
 3     XXII|          after the passing of the officers, who had hastened to warn
 4    XXIII|         including the two retired officers.~ ~Marie-Anne was in the
 5      XXV|          obliged to pass, and two officers were stationed there to
 6      XXV|        name “d’Escorval,” the two officers evinced such surprise that
 7      XXV|     Monsieur,” replied one of the officers.~ ~Although Maurice had
 8      XXV|        the anxious looks of these officers one might have supposed
 9      XXV|     nevertheless, it is true. Two officers belonging to the Montaignac
10      XXV|     pursued M. Laugeron, “the two officers examined the body of the
11    XXVII|          clinched. They were army officers retired on half pay. Three
12    XXVII|       immense hall.~ ~The retired officers had grown even more pale
13    XXVII|           aid of the retired army officers, who were standing beside
14    XXVII|      Maurice to the care of three officers, who promised to go with
15   XXVIII|        feeling he could trust the officers to whose care he had confided
16   XXVIII|      Nothing is decided yet,” the officers answered in response to
17   XXVIII|         at the door.~ ~One of the officers went to open it, and Bavois,
18   XXVIII|        good man,” said one of the officers; “they would not allow this
19     XXIX|        Maurice, the abbe, and the officers surrounded the brave young
20      XXX|       Abbe Midon and the friendly officers, for he knew that his son
21      XXX|          in carrying meals to the officers on guard.~ ~These men were
22      XXX|   solicitation, assembled all the officers and guards under pretext
23      XXX|         and the four retired army officers.~ ~There was no moon; but
24    XXXII|          the dismissal of all the officers.~ ~“As for that miserable
25    XXXII|           d’Escorval.~ ~Among the officers present there was one, an
26   XXXIII|         and Maurice, and the four officers?~ ~There were, then, ten
27     XXXV|          course, the retired army officers who had been waiting for
28     XXXV|        breathes,” said one of the officers.~ ~This was such astounding
29     XXXV|            Maurice and one of the officers were assisting him. “Ah!
30     XXXV|       Such was the opinion of the officers; and it was with poignant
31     XXXV|               Yes!” exclaimed the officers, “let us start at once.”~ ~
32     XXXV|            interrupted one of the officers, “you wish us to procure
33     XXXV|       procure the litter; and the officers were trying to decide where
34     XXXV|           were performed.~ ~These officers who befriended Mme. d’Escorval
35     XXXV|     farmer in the country.”~ ~The officers, who had left the litter
36      XLI|    neighborhood. Even the retired officers remarked:~ ~“The duke is
37     XLII|        call upon him. The retired officers are hand and glove in with
38       LV|           What would his superior officers say when he told them that
39       LV|              Ah! sir, my superior officers will not allow me——”~ ~“