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On dit aussi que Monsieur le Caporal monte la garde Mercredi: alors ce cera mon tour. Chacun a son tour. En attendant Vive l'amour! et vive la bagatelle! Je suis, Madame, Avec tous les sentimens les plus respectueux et les plus tendres, tout a vous,
It was made of a vile tobacco, called "Petit Caporal," but there was nothing better to be had, and he was in the habit of making the best of everything. Therefore he blew into the air a spiral column of thin blue smoke with a certain sense of enjoyment before replying.
Ah!" cried he, in an excited tone, "they can't stand before the cuirassiers of the Guard. Sacrebleu! how proud the Petit Caporal will be of this day!" Then, dropping his voice, he muttered, "What care I who's proud? I have my billet, and must be going." "Not so, mon enfant; thou'lt have the cross for thy day's work.
He fell into a reverie, and taking out his caporal, rolled himself a cigarette; having lighted it, he went on suddenly: "There, in the room above the school, we used to sit in the evenings, one on each side of the grate. The room was on the second floor, I remember, with two windows, and a view of nothing but the houses opposite. The furniture was covered up with chintz.
"Laddie," said the former, "although I meant it at the time as a testimony of my affection, I've been thinking that what I said to the young leddy may not have been over-tactful." "It was taking it too much for granted," explained Mo, "that you and her were sort of keeping company." "You're a pair of idiots," said Doggie, sitting down between them, and taking out his pink packet of Caporal.
Indeed am I serious, M. le Caporal," pleaded the curiosity-trader, turning his head in agonized fear to see if the vivandiere's pistol was behind him. "The things will be worth a great deal to me where I shall send them, and though they are but bagatelles, what is Paris itself but one bagatelle? Pouf! They are all children there they will love the toys. Take the money, I pray you; take the money!"
The soldiers are drinking in their barracks the money which you have been giving them for some days past to purchase their fidelity. They say Louis XVIII., is a very decent sort of man, but 'Vive le petit Caporal!" Immediately on the landing of Napoleon the King sent an extraordinary courier to Marmont, who was at Chatillon whither he had gone to take a last leave of his dying mother.
On the evening of that day the French soldiers, with antique republican camaraderie, saluted their commander as le petit caporal for his personal bravery in the fray, and this endearing phrase helped to immortalize the affair of the bridge of Lodi. It shot a thrill of exultation through France.
My friend, too, had some Turkish tobacco brought home from Constantinople by a sailor, and he gave me quite as much as we had taken from Z. Marcas. I conveyed the splendid cargo into port, and we went in triumph to repay our neighbor with a tawny wig of Turkish tobacco for his dark Caporal. "You are determined not to be my debtors," said he. "You are giving me gold for copper.
These words certainly produced an immense effect on the French soldiery, who everywhere shouted, "Vive l'Empereur!" "Vive le petit Caporal!" "We will die for our old comrade!" with the most genuine enthusiasm.
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