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His superiors, who were anxious to get rid of him, accelerated the period of his examination, and he obtained the first vacant sub-lieutenancy in a regiment of artillery.
"But I have named you for the sub-lieutenancy." Lecour looked up; but it was not enough to revive him from so deep a slough. "I must go, Baron." "Galimatias! You shall not throw away a commission in the Bodyguard of the greatest Court in Europe. My brother-officers demand you, and you must not desert me, your friend your friend, Germain."
His account tallied perfectly with what you Bonaparte had said. "Very well," said the governor, "Louis shall not go, but you will. You are old enough to leave school." Then ringing, "Bring me the list of the vacant sub-lieutenancies," he said. That same day an urgent request for a sub-lieutenancy was made to the Ministry, and that same night Valence left to join his regiment.
His superiors, who were anxious to get rid of him, accelerated the period of his examination, and he obtained the first vacant sub-lieutenancy in a regiment of artillery.
So great was the general's despatch, that Paul I, at his request, granted the young man a sub-lieutenancy in the Semonowskoi regiment, so that Foedor entered on his duties the very next day after his arrival in St. Petersburg.
In the instance of Charlie Vere, it is true, she went wrong, just at first, though only in a single small particular; it was not Charlie himself who was gazetted to a sub-lieutenancy in the Warwickshire Regiment, but his brother Walter. However, the moment she was told of this slip, she corrected herself at once, and added, like lightning, "Ah, yes: how stupid of me! I have mixed up the names.
The stirring ambition of his soul required that the frame which encased it should be of endurance. Opposing the desires of his father, who destined him for the war office, the pen was his abhorrence, and he obtained a sub-lieutenancy in the cavalry. As aide-de-camp of marshal d'Armentières, he made the campaign of Hanover.
So great was the general's despatch, that Paul I, at his request, granted the young man a sub-lieutenancy in the Semonowskoi regiment, so that Foedor entered on his duties the very next day after his arrival in St. Petersburg.
"To-morrow I will hear your choice concerning this commission horse, foot, or artillery?" One did not argue with Princesses partly because Princesses did not argue with one. He humbly retired, revolving an undefined notion of flight. By chance Grancey entered during the afternoon. "Homesick, just at the nick of fortune? Do you know that a sub-lieutenancy is vacant in my company?
His superiors, who were anxious to get rid of him, accelerated the period of his examination, and he obtained the first vacant sub-lieutenancy in a regiment of artillery.
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