In the canon
Servitude and Grandeur of Arms
Alfred de Vigny
- Form
- Form Short Story Collection
- Year
- Year 1835
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 220
The order comes with a red seal, and the captain has given his word not to break it before open water. What it tells him to do is shoot the young passenger he has been carrying, a condemned political prisoner, in front of the wife who came aboard with him.
Their crown is a crown of thorns and among its pricks none is more painful, I believe, than that of passive obedience.
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