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Updated: June 14, 2025
Michel, flooded with sunshine, broken here and there by long crisp shadows; trams and omnibuses toiling up the hill, tooting their horns; students and étudiantes sauntering gaily backwards and forwards on the trottoir; an odour of asphalte, of caporal tobacco; myself one of the multitude on the terrace of a café; and Edmund and Godelinette coming to join me he with his swinging stride, a gesture of salutation, a laughing face; she in the freshest of bright-coloured spring toilets: I fancy this, and it seems an adventure of the golden age.
"My having to repair the car myself?" said the Duke. "Yes, of course," said Guerchard, hesitating a little over the assent. The Duke dropped the end of his cigarette into a tray, and took out his case. He held it out towards Guerchard, and said, "A cigarette? or perhaps you prefer your caporal?" "Yes, I do, but all the same I'll have one," said Guerchard, coming quickly across the room.
The soldiers are drinking in their barracks the money which you have been giving them for some days past to purchase their fidelity. They say Louis XVIII., is a very decent sort of man, but 'Vive le petit Caporal!" Immediately on the landing of Napoleon the King sent an extraordinary courier to Marmont, who was at Chatillon whither he had gone to take a last leave of his dying mother.
Daggers now, or anything made out of spent balls, or flissas one can tell an Arab story about, go off like wild-fire; but your ivory bagatelles are no sort of use, M. le Caporal."
At that instant Petit Picpon's keen, pale, Parisian face peered through the door; his great, black eyes, that at times had so pathetic a melancholy, and at others such a monkeyish mirth and malice, were sparkling excitedly and gleefully. "Mon Caporal!" "You, Picpon! What is it?" "Mon, Caporal, there is great news. There is fighting broken out yonder." "Ah! Are you sure?" "Sure, mon Caporal.
"You must be right certain of promotion, Captain," said an old sergeant, with a gray beard and mustache, "or you wouldn't refuse such a chance as that." "Diable!" cried François; "don't you see he wouldn't accept of it. He is too proud to wait on the Petit Caporal, though he asked him to do so." "He 'd have given you the cross of the Legion anyhow," said another.
Then the third man exclaimed sharply "Here!" he cried, picking something up at the side of the trail. The others joined him at once. He was quietly tearing open a half-burned cigarette, the tobacco inside of which was still moist. "Prairie toughs don't smoke made cigarettes around here. It's a Caporal. Get it? That's bought in a town." "Ay," said McBain quickly. "Rocky Springs, I'd say.
People would ask you what time it was, and you would say: 'Look at my watch." "When I am grown up, my uncle, the Caporal, will give me a watch." "Yes; but your uncle's little boy has one already; not so fine as this either. But then, he is younger than you." The child sighed. "Well! Would you like this watch, little cousin?"
Pankhurst!" he observes breezily to the plump épicière. This is his invariable greeting to French ladies who display any tendency to volubility and they are many. "Bon jour, M'sieu le Caporal!" replies the épicière, smiling. "M'sieu le Caporal désire?" The sergeant allows his reduction in rank to pass unnoticed.
"I've been thinking of it, Peter, and I have come to a resolution that we can manage it better. He is certain to come again in an hour or two. It is only eleven. Now I'll play him a trick." O'Brien then took one of the blankets, make it fast to the window, which he left wide open, and at the same time disarranged the images he had made up, so as to let the gendarme perceive that they were counterfeit. We again crept under the bed, and as O'Brien foretold, in about an hour more the gendarme returned; our lamp was still burning, but he had a light of his own. He looked at the beds, perceived at once that he had been duped, went to the open window, and then exclaimed, "Sacre Dieu! ils m'ont echappés et je ne suis plus caporal. F tre!
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