The very day of this fall the neighbouring and hostile nation recalled its ambassador and flung eight millions of men into Madame Ceres' country.

War became universal, and the whole world was drowned in a torrent of blood.
THE ZENITH OF PENGUIN CIVILIZATION Half a century after the events we have just related, Madame Ceres died surrounded with respect and veneration, in the eighty-ninth year of her age.

She had long been the widow of a statesman whose name she bore with dignity.

Her modest and quiet funeral was followed by the orphans of the parish and the sisters of the Sacred Compassion.
The deceased left all her property to the Charity of St.Orberosia.
"Alas!" sighed M.Monnoyer, a canon of St.Mael, as he received the pious legacy, "it was high time for a generous benefactor to come to the relief of our necessities.

Rich and poor, learned and ignorant are turning away from us.