{"product_id":"2940014015417","title":"ATLANTIDA","description":"I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA SOUTHERN ASSIGNMENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSunday, the sixth of June, 1903, broke the monotony of the life that\u003cbr\u003ewe were leading at the Post of Hassi-Inifel by two events of unequal\u003cbr\u003eimportance, the arrival of a letter from Mlle. de C----, and the\u003cbr\u003elatest numbers of the Official Journal of the French Republic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I have the Lieutenant's permission?\" said Sergeant Chatelain,\u003cbr\u003ebeginning to glance through the magazines he had just removed from\u003cbr\u003etheir wrappings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI acquiesced with a nod, already completely absorbed in reading Mlle.\u003cbr\u003ede C----'s letter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"When this reaches you,\" was the gist of this charming being's letter,\u003cbr\u003e\"mama and I will doubtless have left Paris for the country. If, in\u003cbr\u003eyour distant parts, it might be a consolation to imagine me as bored\u003cbr\u003ehere as you possibly can be, make the most of it. The Grand Prix is\u003cbr\u003eover. I played the horse you pointed out to me, and naturally, I lost.\u003cbr\u003eLast night we dined with the Martials de la Touche. Elias Chatrian was\u003cbr\u003ethere, always amazingly young. I am sending you his last book, which\u003cbr\u003ehas made quite a sensation. It seems that the Martials de la Touche\u003cbr\u003eare depicted there without disguise. I will add to it Bourget's last,\u003cbr\u003eand Loti's, and France's, and two or three of the latest music hall\u003cbr\u003ehits. In the political word, they say the law about congregations will\u003cbr\u003emeet with strenuous opposition. Nothing much in the theatres. I have\u003cbr\u003etaken out a summer subscription for _l'Illustration_. Would you care\u003cbr\u003efor it? In the country no one knows what to do. Always the same lot of\u003cbr\u003eidiots ready for tennis. I shall deserve no credit for writing to you\u003cbr\u003eoften. Spare me your reflections concerning young Combemale. I am less\u003cbr\u003ethan nothing of a feminist, having too much faith in those who tell me\u003cbr\u003ethat I am pretty, in yourself in particular. But indeed, I grow wild\u003cbr\u003eat the idea that if I permitted myself half the familiarities with one\u003cbr\u003eof our lads that you have surely with your Ouled-Nails.... Enough of\u003cbr\u003ethat, it is too unpleasant an idea.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI had reached this point in the prose of this advanced young woman\u003cbr\u003ewhen a scandalized exclamation of the Sergeant made me look up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lieutenant!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yes?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"They are up to something at the Ministry. See for yourself.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe handed me the Official. I read:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By a decision of the first of May, 1903, Captain de Saint-Avit\u003cbr\u003e(André), unattached, is assigned to the Third Spahis, and appointed\u003cbr\u003eCommandant of the Post of Hassi-Inifel.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChatelain's displeasure became fairly exuberant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Captain de Saint-Avit, Commandant of the Post. A post which has never\u003cbr\u003ehad a slur upon it. They must take us for a dumping ground.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy surprise was as great as the Sergeant's. But just then I saw the\u003cbr\u003eevil, weasel-like face of Gourrut, the convict we used as clerk. He\u003cbr\u003ehad stopped his scrawling and was listening with a sly interest.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083408457968,"sku":"2940014015417","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014015417_p0.jpg?v=1763599070","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014015417","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}