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dans ses d��fenseurs, et les familles, lorsque leurs enfants quittent le foyer pour aller payer l'imp?t du sang, les confient joyeusement �� la Caserne, comme �� une ��cole de d��vouement et d'honneur.
La tentative anti-patriotique de M. Descaves a ��chou��. Il n'a plus, maintenant, devant le flot unanime des r��probations, qu'�� courber la t��te comme un coupable d��masqu��.
S'il lui reste au fond du coeur quelque chose de ce qui constitue un Fran?ais, il doit faire d'am��res r��flexions.
Le remords doit hanter vos nuits, M. Descaves. Comme les petits soldats du magnifique tableau de Detaille regardent passer en r��ve les grandes ombres glorieuses des a?eux, qui, la face aur��ol��e de gloire, agitent d'illustres drapeaux, vous devez voir, dans vos sommeils troubl��s de cauchemars, les spectres des h��ros que vous avez insult��s, tendre vers votre front des bras accusateurs!
Par toutes leurs blessures b��antes, ils crient vengeance contre vous.
Puissiez-vous, rentrant enfin en vous m��me, faire amende honorable; et, si vous ne brisez pas votre plume, apr��s en avoir fait une arme empoisonn��e, l'employer maintenant �� cicatriser les plaies qu'elle a ouvertes.
Quant �� vous, sous-officiers, h��ros modestes, serviteurs obscurs et d��vou��s de la plus noble des causes, ne vous inqui��tez pas des viles attaques dirig��es contre vous.
La patrie vous couvre de son palladium.
?Voulez-vous mon avis, mes chers sous-offs? ��crivait M. Saint-Genest dans le Figaro du 13 D��cembre 1889; ne vous inqui��tez pas: cela n'est rien. Secouez d��daigneusement la boue que l'on vous jette, et continuez �� porter la t��te haute, car tous ceux qui vous attaquent voudraient bien avoir la consid��ration dont vous jouissez.?
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