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If he should once understand this the tables would be turned, and I should be his prisoner instead of he being mine. What was I to do? I was at my wits' end, when suddenly there came to me an idea so brilliant that I could not but be amazed at my own invention. 'Count Boutkine, said I, 'I find myself in a most difficult position. 'And why? he asked. 'Because I have promised you your life.
But if I do not have your promise, I will then sell my life as dearly as I can. 'Sir, said I, 'a Frenchman knows how to treat an unfortunate enemy. Your life is safe. With that he handed his sword over the top of the barrel, and I bowed with the candle on my heart. 'Whom have I the honour of capturing? I asked. 'I am the Count Boutkine, of the Emperor's own Don Cossacks, said he.
I dashed the tears from my eyes as I spoke, and with such fire and spirit as I could command I gave him an account of it all, of my dash through Soissons, my brush with the dragoons, my adventure in Senlis, my rencontre with Count Boutkine in the cellar, my disguise, my meeting with the Cossack officer, my flight, and how at the last moment I was nearly cut down by a French dragoon.
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