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| The Spy Chapter 4 – Part X Simone was sat next her mother in law during the little ceremony they did in Cesar’s tribute. He was not the only person on that funeral, what would help people do not notice if they sat apart, but Mrs. Dorothy had insisted they should be together for her son, because that would be his last desire. The widow had no idea what would be worst: being there, the terrible feeling inside her hearty or the sensation that her mother in law blamed her for Cesar’s death. A soldier with high patent was saying pretty words about combatants’ courage. That they had been strong and they had contributed to help their country during that war. Simone asked herself if that was not a standard discourse, and if that man had been in a war to know what to say about it. But that would make any difference? At that moment, what really mattered was not the empty words in that speech, but the coffins in front of that hall. Finished the speech, shots were fired in honor of the dead soldiers and everybody prayed for their souls. Even sounding impossible, the religious master had been able to ease the fact that his religion preached for peace, and those boys were killed during a war. If he agreed with that speech was another thought in Simone’s head. So she noticed she was thinking that everybody in that hall as pretending in some way. Less the deads soldiers. They were really dead. At the end of the ceremony, a soldier saluted all the victims’ relatives and, after that, they all exchanged condolences and leaved. When they were alone, Mrs. Dorothy said to Simone :< p> “You killed my son. He is dead and there is nothing of him among us. I hope you will suffer a lot, a lot, for the rest of your life, Simone, to pay for what you did with my Cesar. He does not deserve being in that coffin. You do.” Simone thought He preferred, in fact, being inside that coffin, but said nothing. She listened to that critics in silence, and leaved her mother in law, knowing she would never see her anymore. Army lawyers would do all bureaucratic work related with his husband death. She would give her heritage up, saying she and Cesar had passed just a little time marriage to be right to receive anything. So, she had almost nothing to resolve after Cesar’s death. Even wanting do more, even wanting to help her mother in law to get better of what was happening, she had no power to fight against all those things. They both had to surpass that situation by themselves. What was worse than the death itself. . (02012014 – published on 28022014) | ||||||
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