The Town of Tombarel

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William J. Locke. The Town of Tombarel

The Town of Tombarel

Table of Contents

I. A SPARTAN OF THE HILLS

II. ROSES

III. MADELEINE OF CREILLE

IV. A LADY PARAMOUNT

V. THE FAMOUS MAX CADOL

VI. THE MAYORALITY OF CREILLE

VII. WHEN THE CIRCUS CAME TO CREILLE

VIII. BOUILLABAISSE

IX. A SNOW-FLAKE FROM PICARDY

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William J. Locke

Published by Good Press, 2021

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And in such terms, though doubtless less elaborate, did the simple elders of Creille condole with Marius Pogomas. Whereupon Pogomas took heart of grace, and ceased to brood and walked about with his head up and looked everyone proudly in the face, whereas heretofore he had been a bowed-headed and furtive man, and, as it were, signed with some enthusiasm a new lease of life.

“You, who have been through it, my dear Fontenay,” said Tombarel, sweeping his beautifully pointed white beard, “know what it means. The Heroes of Riamont. The Heroes of Thermopylæ. Your Charge of the Light Brigade. All that is legendary. And Dominique Pogomas was registered as one of the Heroes of Riamont. What more was to be said? It was the apotheosis of Dominique.”

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