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Updated: June 14, 2025
He would have mounted, mounted, mounted, and been a Captain long before now, if he had not been a pratique." "I know that; so would many of you." "Ah, mon Caporal; but that is just what Rac does not choose. In the books his page beats every man's, except yours.
The consul was always convinced that through this keyhole opening, by means of a key, the humblest caporal wound up his file, the Hauptmann controlled his lieutenants and non-commissioned officers, and even the general himself, wearing the same cap, was subject through his cap to a higher moving power.
How many Life-guardsmen he had annihilated: 'Ah! ben oui! he was afraid to say. He had been personally noticed by 'Le p'tit caporal. There were many, whose deeds were not to compare with his, who had been made princes and mareschals. PARBLEU! but his luck was bad. 'Pas d'chance! pas d'chance!
Considering that only a short hour ago they had been trying to take each other's lives, there seemed to be an appalling lack of emotion in either party. Fully half an hour the Tommies inspected them thus. Then, with infinite deliberation, one man produced a packet of "Caporal" cigarettes and offered one, with an impassive countenance, to a German.
'There was one task, said Roejean, 'that Hercules declined, and that was eating that vile mortadella. He was a strong man; but that was stronger. Wait a moment, till I fill a pipe with caporal, and have a smoke; for if I meet another man with that delicacy, I shall have to give up the Grotto unless I have a pipe under my nose, as counter-irritant.
The child finished the litany in a scarcely audible tone. "Are you finished?" "Oh! my father, have mercy! Pardon me! I will never do so again. I will beg my cousin, the Caporal, to pardon Gianetto." He was still speaking. Mateo raised his gun, and, taking aim, said: "May God pardon you!" The boy made a desperate effort to rise and grasp his father's knees, but there was not time.
We see them as far as El Caporal. The general takes short cut for McDowell and thence home. Old Stannard never slept from the moment he got the word until he got the boys. Harris and 'Tonio located the rancheria and led unerringly. We are all happy. Yours in haste, Even in her womanly joy over the rescue, there was wifely sympathy and instant understanding of her husband's swift-changing mood.
Someone had obviously instructed him in Imperial measures and, "One pow-und." he shouted as he weighed them on a primitive hand held scale using a railway spike as the nearest thing to a pound weight. Besides being able to buy English cigarettes we could also get Canadian ones, Sweet Caporal but not all favourite brands were available at all times.
The coffin was covered with black velvet and gold, and the orders, hat, and sword of "le Petit Caporal" were placed at the foot. The Queen descended for a few minutes into the vault, the air of which struck cold on the living within its walls. The Emperor took his guests in the evening to the Opera Comique.
"I prefer caporal," replied Rouletabille. "But you are right. It is not wise to suspect anybody. See, watch, wait. There is always time, once the game is caught, to say whether it is a hare or a wild boar. Listen to me, then, my good mamma. We must know first what is in the phial. Where is it?" "Here it is." She drew it from her sleeve. He stowed it in his pocket.
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