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Updated: June 16, 2025
The second day of my sojourn was fine the first fine day since our arrival and with several young ladies of the family, I was prowling through the cedar wood above St George's, when a dark good looking man passed us; he was dressed in tight worsted net pantaloons and Hessian boots, and wore a blue frock coat and two large epaulets, with rich French bullion, and a round hat.
Graham prudently avoided the chance of rousing the wrath of a young hero yearning for his epaulets. "I am English enough," said he, with good-humoured courtesy, "to care for English interests; and England has no interest abroad dearer to her than the welfare and dignity of France.
Where am I to gain my epaulets?" At a later period, having become a Russian admiral, he was intrusted with the command of the flotilla which was to descend the Danube to aid in the capture of Kilia and Ismail. But this cowardice and avarice of their admiral very nearly caused a mutiny among the sailors. It was not suppressed without the greatest efforts.
A high military cap surmounting his handsome face, his epaulets gleaming in gold, the lapels of his cape thrown back to reveal a handsome red silken lining, his sword clanking by his side, he seemed a veritable singing flame of youth. Cowperwood, caught in the drift of circumstance age, unsuitableness, the flaring counter-attractions of romance and vigor fairly writhed in pain.
His name was André de Gèdrè; he had just returned from Sénégal, where after several months of daily fighting in the desert, he had won his sub-lieutenant's epaulets.
She lowered her nosegay by way of saluting, and my glasses were at once turned to the direction in which she was darting her glances. On the third floor of the colonel's house I could see a splendid drum-major in full uniform, with large epaulets, his chest bedizened with broad gold braid and his hand resting upon his heart.
Then suddenly he put his hands to his shoulders, and tore off his epaulets, he drew his sword, broke it across his knee, threw the two fragments on the pavement, and, trembling with rage, exclaimed with a solemn voice, "Colonel, you disgrace the number of your regiment." "All right, all right," said Espinasse. The Presidency door was left open, but all the other entrances remained closed.
"Qui vive?" cried the sentinel outside to a strange officer. "France," was his reply. He then asked the sentinel, "Where is the colonel commanding the brigade?" The sentinel lowered his voice, "Asleep, my officer," said he; for the new-comer carried two epaulets. "Wake him," said the officer in a tone of a man used to command on a large scale.
The captain himself lounged under a tree during the warm afternoons, pipe in mouth; thinking, perhaps, over old times, and occasionally feeling his shoulders for his lost epaulets. But, sail ho! a ship is descried coming into the bay. Soon she drops her anchor in its waters; and the next day Captain Crash entertains the sailors in his grove.
There were other companies that used to come to town on the Fourth of July and Muster Day, from smaller places round about; and some of them had richer uniforms: one company had blue coats with gold epaulets, and gold braid going down in loops on the sides of their legs; all the soldiers, of course, had braid straight down the outer seams of their pantaloons.
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