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[Footnote 182: #prérogatives#, _consideration_. For instance, one
might choose to be shot rather than guillotined, to look death in the
face with unbandaged eyes, and to give the command to fire, all matters
regarded as questions of honor by soldiers sentenced to death.]
[Footnote 183: #sans bruit#, _unostentatiously_, but de Grignon takes
it literally. The rest of this scene recalls not unsuccessfully
Molière's _sans dot_ in "l'Avare," Act I., Scene 5.]