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Bubbleton, however, either did not or would not perceive any want of comfort or propriety in the whole; on the contrary, he strode the floor with the step of an emperor, and placed the chair for me to sit on as though he were about to seat me on a throne.
Before I parted with Bubbleton that evening be promised to breakfast with me on the following morning; and true to his word, entered my quarters soon after ten o'clock. I longed to have an opportunity of talking to him alone, and learning some intelligence of that country, which, young as I had left it, was still hallowed in memory as my own.
"Nap. knows me; he knows my influence with the Tories. To let me escape would be to blow all his schemes to the winds. I am destined for the 'Temple, if not for the guillotine." The solemnity of his voice and manner at this moment was too much for me, and I laughed outright. "Ay, you may laugh; so does Anna Maria." "And is Miss Bubbleton here, too?"
"Capital! excellent! by Jove!" cried Bubbleton, as he rolled forth a long curl of blue smoke from the angle of his mouth; "she 's admirable!" "I ought to have told you before," said the lady, not paying the least attention to his interruption, "that he was obliged to sell out of the Forty-fifth; a certain Mr.
The préfet was informed of it; and the result was, an order for our removal to Paris. Here, then, we are; with what destiny before us who shall tell? For, as he still persists in his atrocious nonsense, and calls himself major-general " "Lieutenant-general, my dear," said Bubbleton, mildly; "I never was major-general." "Is it not too bad?" said she. "Could any patience endure this?"
The incredulity of the listeners was, I could perceive, considerably lessened by observing the deferential attention with which Duchesne listened, only interrupting the speaker by an occasional assent, or a passing question as to the political relations of some of the great Powers. "As to Prussia," said Bubbleton, pompously "as to Prussia " "Well, what of Prussia, General?"
While speaking of the memorable siege of Valenciennes in '93, at which one of the French officers was present and in a high command, Bubbleton at once launched forth into some very singular anecdotes of the campaign, where, as he alleged, he also had served. "We took an officer of one of your infantry regiments prisoner in a sortie one evening," said the Frenchman.
"And worse than all, sir," said the lady, as if no longer able to restrain her temper, "he is supposed to be a spy of the police. I heard it myself this morning." "Eh, what!" exclaimed Bubbleton, jumping up in an ecstasy of delight. "A spy! By Jove! I knew it. Lord! what fellows they are, these French! not two days here yet, and they discovered I was no common man, eh, Burke?
I never forgot anything in life. I remember the doctor shaking the snow off his boots the night I was born; a devilish cold December. We lived at Benhungeramud, in the Himalaya." "What!" cried I; "is this Captain Bubbleton, my old and kind friend?" "General, Tom, Lieutenant-General Bubbleton, with your leave," said he, correcting me. "How the boy has grown!
Montague Crofts, whom you may remember, having won every shilling he possessed, even to the sale of his commission. This was the cause of our coming abroad; so that at the very moment that he was giving himself these airs of pretended greatness, we were ruined." "Upon my life, she believes all that," whispered Bubbleton, with a wink at me. "Poor old thing! I must get Larrey to look at her."
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