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Not that Hugot was by any means a noted hunter quite the contrary nor a warrior neither, notwithstanding he had been a chasseur a cheval, and wore such fierce moustachios. All this his old Colonel knew very well; and therefore did not much insist upon sending Hugot with them. Hugot's talents shone best in another sphere of action in the cuisine.
"You are a mother, though you have only had one son; try to take my place to my dear Sabine." On the box of the bridal carriage sat a chasseur, who acted as courier, and in the rumble were two waiting-maids.
I would not engage to do it myself. Take my word for it, ingenuity is always dangerous silence is always safe." "That may be, sir," responded the Chasseur, in the sturdy English with which his bright blue eyes danced a fitting nationality. "No doubt it's uncommon good for them as can bring their minds to it just like water instead o' wine but it's very trying, like the teetotalism.
Without these successes, what availed the fame of the keenest swordsman in the Austrian army? The feast as well as the plumes of vanity offered rewards for the able exercise of his wits. The chasseur was directed on the Bormio line, with orders that he should cause the arrest of Vittoria only in the case of her being on the extreme limit of the Swiss frontier.
"A private of Chateauroy's?" asked the Tirailleur, lifting his eye-glass to watch the Chasseur as he went. "Pardieu yes more's the pity," said Chanrellon, who spoke his thoughts as hastily as a hand-grenade scatters its powder. "The Black Hawk hates him God knows why and he is kept down in consequence, as if he were the idlest lout or the most incorrigible rebel in the service.
If I had not done so much I, a soldier of Africa why, I should have deserved to have been shot like a cat bah! should I not? It was not I who saved the battle. Who was it? It was a Chasseur d'Afrique, I tell you. What did he do? Why, this.
But Rochas looked at the chasseur with an eye of tenderness, for the uniform awakened old memories of Africa. "Eh! my lad, where were you stationed out there?" "At Medeah, Lieutenant." Ah, Medeah! And drawing their chairs closer together they started a conversation, regardless of difference in rank.
Then turning sharply to one of his men, the young officer pointed at the Spaniard and gave an order in a low, imperious tone. Two of his men advanced to the lit-up group, and one of them gave the lad a sharp clap on the shoulder which made him spring up angrily, while the other chasseur snatched the English rifle from his hand, the first chasseur seizing the cartridge-belt and case.
He saw it, and it troubled him with a trouble the more perplexed that he could assign to himself no reason for it. That it could be caused by any interest felt for a Chasseur d'Afrique by the haughtiest lady in all Europe would have been too preposterous and too insulting a supposition for it ever to occur to him.
A certain chasseur d'Afrique in this army at Algiers puzzled her. He treated her with a grave courtesy, that made her wish, with impatient scorn for the wish, that she knew how to read, and had not her hair cut short like a boy's a weakness the little vivandière had never been visited with before. "You are too fine for us, mon brave," she said pettishly once to this chasseur.
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