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Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, conflagration, massacre, carnage, a rivulet formed of English blood, French blood, German blood mingled in fury, a well crammed with corpses, the regiment of Nassau and the regiment of Brunswick destroyed, Duplat killed, Blackmann killed, the English Guards mutilated, twenty French battalions, besides the forty from Reille's corps, decimated, three thousand men in that hovel of Hougomont alone cut down, slashed to pieces, shot, burned, with their throats cut, and all this so that a peasant can say to-day to the traveller: Monsieur, give me three francs, and if you like, I will explain to you the affair of Waterloo!
Major Blackmann leaned against it to die. Beneath a great tree in the neighborhood fell the German general, Duplat, descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. An aged and falling apple-tree leans far over to one side, its wound dressed with a bandage of straw and of clayey loam. Nearly all the apple-trees are falling with age.
"He would now be a dead man." "Dead? But ought you not to grant the last request he made, and to give him his liberty on the con- ditions " "You do not know him." "But " "Silence! I took you for my lover, not for my confessor." Adolphe was silent. "And then comes an exquisite galloping goat, a tail-piece drawn by Normand, and cut by Duplat. the names are signed," said Lousteau.
In the Little Convent there was a centenarian who came from the Abbey of Fontevrault. She had even been in society before the Revolution. She talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis XVI. and of a Presidentess Duplat, with whom she had been very intimate.
"He would now be a dead man." "Dead? But ought you not to grant the last request he made, and to give him his liberty on the con- ditions " "You do not know him." "But " "Silence! I took you for my lover, not for my confessor." Adolphe was silent. "And then comes an exquisite galloping goat, a tail-piece drawn by Normand, and cut by Duplat. the names are signed," said Lousteau.
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