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Updated: June 14, 2025
He pulled from his pocket a "Caporal" cigarette, and placed it in his mouth, partly to show every one around how cool this inferno had left him, and partly to steady his nerves. But just as he was striking the match, a violent desire to laugh assailed him.
"But that was two hundred years ago." "They were heroes, nevertheless; and, I suppose, une fois caporal, toujours caporal.
"Yes, Gianetto was hidden under the hay-pile yonder, but my little cousin showed me the trick. I shall tell his uncle, the Caporal, that he may send him a fine present for his trouble. Both his name and yours will be in the report that I shall send to the Attorney-general." "Malediction!" said Mateo in a low voice. They had rejoined the detachment.
In a word, every expedient was practised which could hasten the movement of the army; justifying the remark so often repeated among the soldiers at the time, "Le Petit Caporal makes more use of our legs than our bayonets in this campaign." On the same evening we arrived came the news of the surprise of Vienna by Murat. Never was there such joy as this announcement spread through the army.
When within ten feet of them the footsteps halted and they heard a voice say: "This will be far enough. You are the end man on the line." "Bueno, caporal!" "Keep a close watch," cautioned the corporal. "You never know what these Americans may do." "Si, Señor. How far are we from Vera Cruz?" "General Maas will make a stand at Tejeria, about a league further on." Then as he moved away.
"Didn't you try your chance with the Petit Caporal first?" asked one of the listeners. "To be sure I did. I sent him a long petition, setting forth the whole circumstance, and detailing every minute particular of the duel; but I received it back, unopened, with Duroc's name, and the word 'Rejected, on the back.
"The way of her death shall be as we choose," said the Sheikh-el-beled, his face growing blacker, his eyes enlarging in fury. Dicky yawned slightly, his eyes half closed. He drew in a long breath of excoriating caporal, held it for a moment, and then softly ejected it in a cloud which brought water to the eyes of the Sheikh-el-beled. Dicky was very angry, but he did not look it.
"I wish," says the petit caporal of the Engineer Company, patting his howitzer gently on the back, "that I could get this Putty Blower pointed at the enemy, while you fellows are bridge-building." The inefficient destructives of Maryland had only half spoilt the bridge. Some of the old timbers could be used, and for new ones, there was the forest.
I make the condition that all those who assist at my funeral, if they wish to partake of the benefits of my will, must smoke without interruption during the entire ceremony. My body shall be placed in a coffin lined throughout with the wood of my old Havana cigar-boxes. At the foot of the coffin shall be placed a box of the French tobacco called caporal and a package of our old Dutch tobacco.
Gaston whispered gloomily behind my chair: "Mon petit caporal" he called me that because of a fancied likeness to the young Napoleon "dites donc. Vous croyex quils vont passer par Amiens? Non, ce n'est pas possible, ca! Pour la deuxieme fois? Non. Je refuse a le croire. Mais c'est mauvais, c'est affreux, apres tant de sacrifice!"
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