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Excerpt from Pride: One of the Seven Cardinal Sins
Commander bernard, a resident of Paris, after hav ing served under the Empire in the Marine Corps, and under the Restoration as a lieutenant in the navy, was retired about the year 1830, with the brevet rank of captain.
Honourably mentioned again and again for his daring exploits in the maritime engagements of the East In dian war, and subsequently recognised as one of the bravest soldiers in the Russian campaign, M. Bernard, the most unassuming and upright of men, with the kindest heart in the world, lived quietly and frugally upon his modest pension, in a little apartment on one of the least frequented streets of the Batignolles.
An elderly woman, named Madame Barbencon, had kept house for him ten years or more, and, though really very fond of him, led him a rather hard life at times.
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