The Girondin - Classic Reprint Author:Hilaire Belloc THE GIRONDIN. H ---- CHAPTER I. In which the Girondin finishes, Dinner. IN the year 1792 and in the month of August, in the early days of that month (to be accurate, upon the eighth), M. Boutroux, a wine merchant of some substance and of a singularly settled demeanour, sat at table in the town of Bordeaux, which was the seat of his extensive bus... more »iness. The house in which the table was served was one of the old merchant houses overlooking the central quays of the city ; the windows of the room where he sat at meat (without lights, for the hour was early and the summer sky still bright) looked up and down stream over some miles of the noble river which nourishes the town. M. Boutroux sat at dinner. The table was of 4
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CONTENTS,; L In which the Girondin finishes Dinner , 5 II In which the Girondin talks Politics 19; III In which the Sovereign People play; the Fool 37; IV In which the Girondin fences too hard; and too long58; V In which several Lies are told in an Inn 81 VI In wluch a Postilion goes Mad 104 VII In which a Sack of Charcoal is taken; and a Girl is left , 123; VIII In which a Sack of Charcoal is left and; a Girl is taken138; IX In which a Lover finds himself in the; Dark' , 152 X* In which two Lovers find themselves in; the Daylight 167 XI Showing how Men become Soldiers 184 XII Showing how Soldiers are not always so 207 XIII In which the Girondin, though by no means yet a Soldier, becomes very certainly a Sergeant; and in which; CONTENTS; a Chivalrous Fellow strikes a Blow for the Crown 223 XiV Showing the Advantage there is for a German, in the Profession of Arms, that he should know the French Tongue 244 XV In which an Ostler is too Political 263 XVI, In which the Brethren of Equality and Fraternity are led to behave in a Manner most Unfraternal and Inequitable; and in which the Children of Light are unmercifully Bamboozled 273 XVII In which an Old Gentleman shows; the Way to an O« less