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He stopped, and, throwing himself back in his chair, replied with a smile: "No, my dear fellow, this time it is to be a sapper." Looking over his spectacles he softly hummed the old refrain of Thérèse: "Nothing is as sacred to a sapper!" Armandelle burst out laughing. "Ah, my boy, come what will, you meet it with a smile!" "By Jove, old man, why be gloomy?" answered the lively captain.
What time is it now? "A quarter past nine, lieutenant!" "He will be punctual." "Why, of course!" cried Captain Loreuil. "That is why I caught sight of the chief just now. He is earlier than usual. What is the name of the new-comer?" "Muller," said Armandelle.
Was the subject of these talks National Defence? Who knows? In the officers' room there was animated talk. "Then it is an artilleryman again?" asked Lieutenant Armandelle, a regular colossus with a brick-red complexion, who had passed long years in Africa at the head of a detachment of Zouaves. Captain Loreuil was sharpening a pencil.
The old keeper of the records, Gaudin, who was methodically sorting a voluminous correspondence which was to be laid before Commandant Dumoulin, put a question to Armandelle: "Lieutenant, is it not a captain of the engineers who is to take the place of this poor Captain Brocq?" "True enough, Gaudin! His nomination was signed by the minister yesterday. We expect him this morning at half-past nine.
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