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Updated: June 18, 2025
Under Louis XV. Milaud de la Baudraye, from being a mere squire, was made Chevalier, and had influence enough to obtain for his son a cornet's commission in the Musketeers. This officer perished at Fontenoy, leaving a child, to whom King Louis XVI. subsequently granted the privileges, by patent, of a farmer-general, in remembrance of his father's death on the field of battle.
Sheridan's hand-writing one of those trifles, perhaps, with which he and his friend Tickell were in the constant habit of amusing themselves, and written apparently with the intention of ridiculing some woman of fashion: "Then behind, all my hair is done up in a plat, And so, like a cornet's, tuck'd under my hat.
I shall reach the company by the morning anyway. 'Hasn't the cadet given you anything more? 'I am thankful to have paid him back with a dagger he was going to ask for the horse, said Lukashka, dismounting and handing over the horse to Nazarka. He darted into the yard past Olenin's very window, and came up to the window of the cornet's hut. It was already quite dark.
As I laid down in the field cornet's tent, with his son, a boy of fifteen, at one side of me, and a man over sixty on the other, I could not help thinking of the great tragedy of all that was yet before these people when they would begin to realise that they called in vain on their God, that they had no monopoly of the Almighty, that the God of their fathers fights no longer on the side of the Boers, but on that of the big battalions.
Daddy Eroshka gazed at his feet in their shoes of wet raw hide and shook his head thoughtfully at the cornet's ability and learning, and muttered to himself: 'Gyptian Nimvrod! What things he invents! 'Yes, you see we mean to go hunting, answered Olenin. 'Yes, sir, exactly, said the cornet, 'but I have a small business with you. 'What do you want?
The cornet's red face became a still deeper purple as the cruel noose compressed his throat, and he tried to use his pistol; but his convulsively quivering hand could not aim straight, and the bullet flew wild across the plain.
'Well, when Maryanka grows up she'll be marriageable too, she answers soberly and modestly. 'I'll send the matchmakers to you I'll send them! Only let me get the vineyard done and then we'll come and make our bows to you, says Lukashka's mother. 'And we'll make our bows to Elias Vasilich too. 'Elias, indeed! says the cornet's wife proudly. 'It's to me you must speak! All in its own good time.
'I've been to the betrothal at the cornet's. But there! They're shwine! Don't want them! Have come to you. 'And where did you get your balalayka asked Olenin, still writing. 'I've been beyond the river and got it there, brother mine, he answered, also very quietly. 'I'm a master at it. Tartar or Cossack, squire or soldiers' songs, any kind you please.
The fatal day was, however, come, and I mounted in good time to proceed to the rendezvous at our Cornet's house at Syrencot. As I rode along with some of my comrades, I could not avoid cracking a few jokes about the nature of our expedition, and the unsoldier-like service on which we were about to be employed.
"'Will you please step into your father's room, sir? I said; 'he wants to see you very particular. "The cornet's jaw dropped, and his face turned ghastly white as I said this; but he tried to carry it off with a swagger, and followed me into Mr. Percival Dunbar's room. "'You needn't leave us, Sampson, said Mr. Hugh, who was sitting opposite his brother at the writing-table.
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