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"France!" cried the old soldier stoutly, and tossed off the liquor. That night Valmond and his three new recruits, to whom Garotte the limeburner had been added, met in the smithy and swore fealty to the great cause. Lajeunesse, by virtue of his position in the parish, and his former military experience, was made a captain, and the others sergeants of companies yet unnamed and unformed.
Then followed a little loud talking and laughing, and the party of recruits were marched across the yard and disappeared, leaving the group of sergeants chatting together, till one of them seemed to have said something to his companions, who, as if by one consent, turned to stare at Richard Frayne.
All the cruelties of the terrible Spanish Inquisition, if heaped together, would not sum up a greater aggregate of anguish than was endured by them. The third day came, and still no signs of yielding by Barrett. The Sergeants counseled together. Something must be done. The fellow would starve the whole camp to death with as little compunction as one drowns blind puppies.
Notwithstanding that three sergeants and twenty-four Life-guards relieved one another every day, our correspondence was not interrupted. Madame de Pommereux, M. de Caumartin, and M. de Raqueville wrote me letters twice a week constantly about the means to effect my escape, which I attempted twice, but in vain.
One evening when the curfew was sounding from all the belfries in Paris, the sergeants of the watch might have observed, had it been granted to them to enter the formidable Court of Miracles, that more tumult than usual was in progress in the vagabonds' tavern, that more drinking was being done, and louder swearing.
It is quite a history. Consider that I knew the sergeants very well. They were always good to me in the days when the little boys threw stones at me, because I led a life of pleasure. Do you see? You will leave me my child when you know! I was a poor woman of the town. It was the Bohemians who stole her from me. And I kept her shoe for fifteen years. Stay, here it is.
From Vauxhall he often crossed to West minster, and soon struck up an acquaintance with some of the recruiting sergeants. "Want to enlist, eh?" one of them said. "I am thinking of entering as a trumpeter." "Well, you might do that. There are plenty of younger lads than you are trumpeters in the cavalry.
"What!" replied one of the sergeants in surprise, "don't you know the gardens of the Duke de Sairmeuse, the famous duke who is a millionaire ten times over, and who was formerly the friend " "Ah, yes, I know, I know!" said Lecoq. "The thief," resumed the sergeant, "walked into a pretty trap when he got over that wall.
Sergeants may wag their tongues and their cudgels at discretion: 'showers of cudgel-strokes, says Archenholtz; Sergeants going like threshers on the poor men; 'though the upper Officers had a touch of mercy, and affected not to see this disobedience to the Sergeants and their cudgels, which was punishable with death. War is not an over-fond Mother, but a sufficiently Spartan one, to her Sons.
The sergeants' horses were held by a third soldier a few yards back behind the spur, for Winsor was "side scouting" up the heights. The snowfall had ceased for a time. The light was growing broader every moment, and presently a soft whistle sounded somewhere up the steep, and Schreiber answered.
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