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Updated: June 12, 2025
It was given in honor of this happy anniversary of the king's restoration to France." The three associates looked at each other. "He is cleverer than I thought for, that big cuirassier!" said Gaubertin. "Well, come to breakfast. After all, the game is not lost, only postponed; it is your affair now, Rigou."
One side is a barn; two sides consist of stables, and the third is the house inhabited not only by us but by an incredibly filthy and stinking old woman who was continually troubling the general because some months ago a French cuirassier took one of her chickens. The day after we arrived at this farm I had few despatches to take, so I wrote to Robert.
They handed over their letters; they exchanged compliments once more; they were escorted as far as the door of the room by the prelate, across the next ante-chamber by an imposing man in black velvet with a chain, across the third by a cuirassier, and across the hall to the bottom of the steps by two tremendous footmen in the ancient royal livery. Monsignor was silent for a few yards.
He had forgotten all about his hat, which was by now, in-all probabilities, at the bottom of the lake. "Curse the luck!" he said, in English. "Curse the want of it, I should say!" was the merry rejoinder, also in English. Maurice threw back his head and laughed, and the cuirassier caught the infection.
It has ever been foremost through the war, And may manage its laws, as it pleases best; Besides, 'tis by Friedland himself caressed. Who averred it? SECOND CUIRASSIER. From the lips of the colonel himself I heard it. FIRST CUIRASSIER. The devil! we're not their dogs, I weep! FIRST YAGER. How now, what's wrong? You're swollen with spleen! SECOND YAGER. Is it anything, comrades, may us concern?
It was the cuirassier who remained by the side of General D'Hubert, keeping his one eye fixed immovably on the white face of the watch he held in the palm of his hand. He opened his mouth, waiting for the beat of the last second long before he snapped out the word, "Avancez."
FIRST YAGER. In my life it ne'er was a thought of mine Whether we suited each other or not, I let myself go with the rest of the lot. FIRST CUIRASSIER. I quite agree in the sergeant's opinion They'd fain have an end of our camp dominion, And trample the soldier down, that they May govern alone in their own good way. 'Tis a conspiration a plot, I say! SUTLER-WOMAN. A conspiration God help the day!
In the case of his adversary gaining his left rear, by dropping the reins the sword is instantly shifted to the left hand, and the short rein is instantly grasped with the right hand at the proper length. This would be a hopeless affair with the right hand, particularly for a cuirassier. To be able to present a pistol to the rear with the left hand would be invaluable in such a case.
The two veterans looked at each other. Later in the day when they found themselves alone, out of their moody friend's earshot, the cuirassier remarked suddenly: "Generally speaking, I can see with my one eye as far or even a little farther than most people. But this beats me. He won't say anything."
In truth, there was enough of change in his appearance since last I saw him to warrant my forgetfulness. A dark, bushy beard, worn cuirassier fashion, around the mouth and high on the cheeks, almost concealed his face, while in figure he had grown both taller and stouter. "Art colonel of the Eighth Regiment?" said he, laughing; "you know I promised you were to be, when we were to meet again."
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