Z. Marcas by Honoré de Balzac (acx book reading .TXT) 📕

least, had one idea in common--that of shaking off the yoke of the Court. But Marcas could only reply to the envoy in the words of the Hotel de Ville:

"It is too late!"

Marcas did not leave money enough to pay for his funeral. Juste and I had great difficulty in saving him from the ignominy of a pauper's bier, and we alone followed the coffin of Z. Marcas, which was dropped into the common grave of the cemetery of Mont-Parnasse.


We looked sadly at each other as we listened to this tale, the last we heard from the lips of Charles Rabourdin the day before he embarked at le Havre on a brig that was to convey him to the islands of Malay. We all knew more than one Marcas, more than one victim of his devotion to a party, repaid by betrayal or neglect.

LES JARDIES, May 1840.


ADDENDUM

The following personage appears in other stories of the Human Comedy.

Marcas, Zephirin
A Prince of Bohemia

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