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The Vicomte de Bragelonne

CHAPTER XXVI
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I, on the contrary, am convinced he will not stir; it is in my opinion impossible.

Lambert leads an army devoid of homogeneous principles, and there is no possible army with such elements.

I have taught my soldiers to consider my authority subordinate to another, therefore, after me, round me, and beneath me, they still look for something.

It would result that if I were dead, whatever might happen, my army would not be demoralized all at once; it results, that if I choose to absent myself, for instance, as it does please me to do sometimes, there would not be in the camp the shadow of uneasiness or disorder.

I am the magnet--the sympathetic and natural strength of the English.


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