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Updated: June 22, 2025
This gun had an excellent barrel, made at Breschia, and carrying a ball with the precision of an English rifle; but one day the count broke the stock, and had then cast the gun aside.
That very afternoon, when I returned from a lonely tramp upon the hills, I found the man Hinge in the kitchen of the inn. He bore a note from Breschia to Brunow, and was awaiting the return of that gentleman, who was once again away in pursuit of the soi-disant baroness, but had promised to be back in time for dinner.
"I have the honor, sir, to wish you a good-day." I opened the door, and in walked Lieutenant Breschia. "These are my birds," he said, laughingly. "I haven't the pleasure of being acquainted with this gentleman," signalizing the count, "but I dare say we shall learn to know each other."
I was willing enough to go; and the hour being already near, we made some slight change in our attire and strolled across to the fortress. Breschia met us gayly and entertained us well, but nothing of note happened at the dinner. We sat late over our wine, and it was pitch dark when at last we rose to go.
He obeyed, and tasted the mixture with a solemn satisfaction. "My friend, Lieutenant Breschia, tells me," I said then, for by this time I had made up my mind how to begin with him, "that you are constantly breaking the rules of the fortress. He tells me that you have been giving the prisoners tobacco." "That's a fact, sir," he admitted. "Give them some more," I said, "first chance you get."
"Here's Breschia suddenly left almost alone," he explained when he re-entered the room. "He writes apologizing for troubling us with his poor hospitality so often, but will I go over and take you with me? He declares it will be a charity, and in the great hereafter will be remembered in our favor."
Some conversation ensued between them, which my ignorance of the language prevented me from following; but I understood the phrase with which Breschia brought it to a close. "Send him here," he said. "Send him at once." The non-commissioned officer saluted and retired, and Breschia turned laughingly on me. "We have here an original who is always getting into trouble.
The matter came about in this wise: Breschia and I were seated in his private room, when a non-commissioned officer entered with his report for the day, and stood, forage-cap in hand, at attention while his superior read it over.
I had scarcely selected and lit ray cigar, when there came a tap at the door; and at the lieutenant's call to enter a man in uniform came in, and, having closed the door behind him, stood rigidly at attention. Breschia addressed him in a tone of anger, which sounded real enough, and the man stood like a statue to receive his reproof.
"It would so appear," said the puzzled functionary; and being bowed from the room by the lieutenant, he retired. "Civis Romanus sum," repeated Breschia, when we were left alone. "It is a great saying. And so you positively won't come back?" "Positively we will not," said Brunow. "Then, positively," returned the lieutenant, "I will go back and report my failure."
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