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"I acquit you, of course, of any active share in the incident, and I am assured that Archelaus and Treacher were no worse than accomplices. It appears that the real culprit was a totally different person, and," he went on, after a glance at the Commandant's face, which betrayed nothing, "it may save time if I tell you that she has confessed to me."
Then the boys crept back softly to their own room, shaking with laughter at the thought of the commandant's face when he came down in the morning. The two youths were great favourites with the workmen in the Arsenal, who used often to leave off the work they should have been doing to make squirts, crossbows, and other weapons for Charles and Henry.
But the following day, which was the 6th, many things occurred to shake the Commandant's confidence: Napoleon's proclamation was not only posted up all over the town, but the citizens were distributing the printed leaflets among themselves: one of the officers on the staff pointed out to Général Marchand that the 4th regiment of artillery quartered in Grenoble was the one in which Bonaparte had served as a lieutenant during the Revolution the men, it was argued, would never turn their arms against one whom they had never ceased to idolize: it would not be safe to march out into the open with men whose loyalty was so very doubtful.
God knows they must be hungry, and you." Suddenly I remembered that he himself had had nothing. Running around the commandant's house to the kitchen door, I came unexpectedly upon Swein Poulsson, who was face to face with the linsey-woolsey-clad figure of Monsieur Rocheblave's negro cook. The early sun cast long shadows of them on the ground. "By tam," my friend was saying, "so I vill eat.
Before one of the attacks, a soldier came to Gilson with his wife's picture, watch, ring, and money, and his home address. "I'm not going to come out," said the soldier. It happened so. The Commandant's pockets were heavy with these mementoes of the predestined the letters of boys to their mothers. He had that tenderness and agreeable sentiment which seem to go with bravery.
But here he paused with a start; for the Commandant had wheeled about suddenly, and stood over him, and the Commandant's eyes were dangerous. "Sir Cæsar" the Commandant controlled his voice with an effort, for it shook a little "in the last few minutes some things have been made plain to me which were hitherto obscure.
The buildings on either side of this consist of sleeping apartments, while on the right of the house, and standing on somewhat lower ground, is a bungalow set apart for the use of guests. With the exception of the fort and commandant's house, the "Astana" is the only building on this side of the river.
The Commandant's eyes moistened suddenly. "Is that how the Islanders look at it, Mrs. Banfield?" "It is, sir." "Well, well," said the Major. "I never guessed.... I am a blind old fool, it seems. But" and here, blinking away the moisture, he smiled at Mrs. Banfield almost gaily "I can begin at once to make amends.
"Mademoiselle, when one takes up the profession of arms, fighting and exile are choses entendues. I often sigh for a settled, domestic life; but I might have been worse off. I might have gone to Mexico, for instance." The Commandant's manner was so simple, so manly, and so tinged with sadness, that I think any woman would have sympathized with him as much as my little sister Mary did.
Still she soon discovered that there were a few, even among those that could aspire to a seat at the Commandant's table, who were disposed to overlook the halbert for the novelty of a well-turned figure and of a pretty, winning face; and by the end of the first two or three days she had admirers even among the gentlemen.
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