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The Captain turned and went downstairs in amazement, returning immediately after with four troopers at his heels. Bareilles' face was ghastly. "Take M. le Capitaine's sword," he said to them. The Captain's jaw fell, and, stepping back a pace, he looked from one to another.
Every soldier who serves in Lorraine knows. They themselves have tried to rush out of the edge of a woods across an open space against intrenched Germans and found the shoe on the other foot. Now the fields in the foreground down to the woods' edge were bare of any living thing. You had to take mon capitaine's word for it that there were any soldiers in front of us.
And the tobacco of M. le Lieutenant But M. le Capitaine did not 'Give orders? Well, I give them, I answered. 'First of all, remove these beds. And bustle, man, bustle, or I will find something to quicken you! In a moment 'And M. le Capitaine's riding-boots? 'Place them in the passage, I replied. 'Oh! in the passage? He paused, looking at them in doubt. 'Yes, booby; in the passage.
When we returned home we found that the Commandant's servant had left a bunch of roses for Mary, with his master's compliments; that the Capitaine's servant had been sent round with his master's horse for her to try, and that the Général had sent word by his aide-de-camp that he would himself have the pleasure of calling upon us that evening.
It had been the capitaine's custom, now for some years past, to retire every evening at about seven o'clock into the sanctum sanctorum of Madame Bauche's habitation, the dark little private sitting-room in which she made out her bills and calculated her profits, and there regale himself in her presence and indeed at her expense, for the items never appeared in the bill with coffee and cognac.
"I think your head will be fairly turned, what with the Commandant's dinners and the Capitaine's fêtes-champêtres," I said; "and if the Lieutenant " "M. le Lieutenant!" announced Dominique, opening the door calmly, as if nothing was the matter. We had been twice so shocked and surprised that we had no more embarrassment to expend on the Lieutenant.
It was a very startling proposal, the idea of matrimony for himself never having as yet entered into the capitaine's head at any period of his life; but La Mere Bauche did contrive to make it not altogether unacceptable. As to that matter of dowry she was prepared to be more than generous.
Besides, he had promised his mother that he would give up Marie; had entirely given in his adhesion to that plan of the marriage with the capitaine. He had owned that the path of life as marked out for him by his mother was the one which it behoved him, as a man, to follow. It was this view of his duties as a man which had I been specially urged on him with all the capitaine's eloquence.
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