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"I have no knowledge of such a thing!" Paul replied instantly. "And yet for several weeks past a mysterious friend of yours has been seen in the neighbourhood of your château. He has been staying in Commercy and in Longuyon. I gave orders for his arrest, but, with his usual cleverness, he escaped from Commercy." "I prepared no statement."
To joke and quip seemed to him beneath the dignity of men. It is, rather, the safety-valve of a highly intelligent people the outlet for their ironic perceptions of life. The most amusing songs of the war that I have heard were given by the poilus on a little stage near Commercy while the cannon thundered a few miles away.
The end is nigh!" And with these faintly-articulated words, Victor Amadeus fell back upon his pillow and swooned. Eugene returned to his quarters in a state of extreme perplexity. "How is the duke?" cried De Commercy, who shared his lodgings. "I do not know," said Eugene, moodily. "But this I know. we march, not to Grenoble, but back to Turin." "Indeed!"
In one place an ancient tram-car had been converted into a cafe and labelled: "Au Restaurant des Ruines"; and everywhere between the calcined walls the carefully combed gardens aligned their radishes and lettuce-tops. From Bar-le-Duc we turned northeast, and as we entered the forest of Commercy we began to hear again the Voice of the Front.
It will prove to be Germany's great stumbling-block after the war, when she looks about a shocked world for peoples to trade with. In the dining-room of the military club at Commercy, where a corps of the French army now has its headquarters, there is a wall painting of the last century representing the heroic deeds of Jeanne d'Arc.
The prince bowed: "Sire, as the Prince de Commercy was charging a body of Janizaries stationed at one of the gates of Belgrade, a Turk made a sudden dash at his standard-bearer, and captured the regimental flag.
The first namely, the 'discrète personne Messire Henri Arnolin' belonged to Gondrecourt-le-Château, near to Commercy, and was sixty-four. The next is the 'vénérable personne Messire Etienne de Sionne, curate of the parish church at Raucessey-sous-Neufchâteau, aged fifty-four; and the third was named Dominic Jocab, curate of the parish church of Moutier-sur-Saulx.
In consequence of these operations the King decided to move to Commercy, which place we reached by carriage, traveling on a broad macadamized road lined on both sides with poplar-trees, and our course leading through a most beautiful country thickly dotted with prosperous-looking villages.
Then, withdrawing the lance from his side, he gave the blood-besprinkled banner into the hands of the German ensign, saying, as he did so, 'Pray be more careful of this one than you were of the other." The king slightly bowed his head. "Indeed, the Prince de Commercy does honor to the country that gave him birth. I will take care that he is suitably rewarded."
"No," sighed Eugene, "the enemy's numbers give me no uneasiness: I am afraid of our own weakness. We lack the morale the will to conquer." "Why surely, Eugene, you lack neither," replied De Commercy. "As if I had any voice in these councils! Were it left with me to manoeuvre this army, I would lead it to Paris in two weeks.
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