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Updated: June 20, 2025
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy comrades but preserve a strict neutrality on his outgoings and his incomings. Thou shalt not covet thy sergeant's post, nor the corporal's nor the staff major's, but do thy duty and by dint of perseverance rise to the high position of major general. Candies, cigarettes and ordinary, plain cigarettes are good enough, so long as you send plenty.
Chateauroy himself was bending his fine, dark head toward the patrician on whom her instinct had fastened her hatred. "You expressed your wish to see my Corporal's little sculptures again, madame," he was murmuring now, as Cigarette got close enough under her flower shadows to catch the sense of the words. "To hear was to obey with me. He waits your commands yonder."
My uncle Toby knew the corporal's loyalty; otherwise the comparison was not at all to his mind it did not altogether strike the corporal's fancy when he had made it but it could not be recall'd so he had nothing to do, but proceed.
"I am not your lackey." The Chevalier was up in an instant. Passing quickly around the table he inserted his fingers between the corporal's collar and his neck, twisting him out of his chair and literally lifting him to his feet. "What do you mean by this insolence? Pah!" scenting the brandy; "you have been drinking." "What's that to you? You are not my superior officer. Let go of my collar."
To conceal his astonishment and fear at the appearance of the dog, he had libelled Mr Vanslyperken, who would not easily forgive, and it was the corporal's interest to continue on the best terms with, and enjoy the confidence of his superior. How was this to be got over?
"Thank you, Captain," said I, "for taking an interest. I shan't forget. No more fibs! I'll work for my corporal's stripe!" "Good child!" he beamed on me, looking young and happy again. "I'll get you the stripe. I have it ready for you upstairs. I'll bring it down when I bring the money for the lace scarf. Would you rather wait in the taxi, or will you come into the ladies' parlour in the hotel?"
He moved restlessly and looked down at his boots. He mopped his brow again. Then he gripped the corporal by the arm and dragged him some yards back from the others. "Jones," he said, in an intensely earnest voice, "will you tell me what in the devil I am going to do?" The corporal's countenance became illuminated with satisfaction at being thus requested to advise his superior officer.
"To avoid punishment, my men made known that Carmen had spoken to me in Basque; and to tell the truth, it did not seem very natural that a blow from such a little creature should have so easily overthrown a strong fellow like me. The whole thing looked suspicious, or, at all events, not over-clear. When I came off guard I lost my corporal's stripes, and was condemned to a month's imprisonment.
"In the name of the People and by the order of the Committee of Public Safety!" said one of the men, who stood in the forefront, and who, I noticed, had a corporal's stripe on his left sleeve. He held out a paper, which was covered with seals and with writing, but as neither my man nor I can read, it was no use our looking at it.
I accordingly acquiesced in the most cheerful manner I could assume; and we trudged on together, I describing, in response to the corporal's questioning, the details of my assumed escape. Just as I had finished my recital, we arrived at the corner of a street, and my companion stopped. "This," said he, "is the street in which Monsieur le Maire resides.
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