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"I have indeed heard that he said, with bitter scorn, that you, my king, wanted to be the protector of religion, yet you yourself were entirely without religion and without belief. Also, he of late broke out into bitter curses against you, because you had robbed him of his field-marshal's staff, and given it to Earl Hertford, that noble Seymour.
Catherine, out of gratitude, had sent her victorious general a wreath of oak-leaves, intertwined with precious stones, and worth six hundred thousand roubles, a heavy gold field-marshal's baton encrusted with diamonds; and had created him a field-marshal, with the right of choosing a regiment that should bear his name from that time forward.
That field-marshal's baton may have been in your pack after all!" While they still talked a message was brought to McKay from General Wilders; the brigadier wished to see him at once. "How is this, Mr. McKay?" said the general. "So you pretend to be a cousin of mine? Sir Colin Campbell has told me of his meeting with you, and now I find your name in full in the Gazette."
Play as he would and no schlägermeister, of my old field-marshal's picked troop could best him at this game of parry and defense he must give ground step by step; slowly at the pressing of the Ferara, and in quick backward leaps when the great broadsword bit at him. For the first few bouts he withstood us in grim silence.
This proof of confidence the object of much secret envy is, to women, a field-marshal's baton. Women are then, so to speak, mistresses at home. After this, nothing, not even the memory of the honey-moon, can be compared to Adolphe's happiness for several days. A woman, under such circumstances, is all sugar.
Both the Emperor and the Duke were dressed in Field-Marshal's uniform and carried the bâtons of their rank. The procession moved slowly on to the famous Abbey, the Emperor riding a grey horse, saluting at intervals as he rode along. On arrival at the Abbey an incident occurred.
His indiscretion might cost him his place, and Captain Curtis, who had to maintain a wife and family, three saddle-horses, and a green uniform with more gold on it than a field-marshal's, felt duly anxious and uneasy for what he had done. 'Who is that gone down the road? asked he, as he stood at the window, while a woman was setting the room in order. 'Sure it's Miss Kate taking the dogs out.
I got muddled up among you somehow and said, `For the life of me I am not able to tell one of you from Adam!" "Well?" said Whipcord. "Well, what!" said Doubleday, savagely "The joke?" "Why, that was the joke, you blockhead! But we can't expect a poor fellow like you to see it. I say, the Field-Marshal's behind time. I'll give him two minutes, and then we'll start without him."
When Chapeau had risen to some high military position, a field-marshal's baton, or the gold-laced cap of a serjeant-major, with whom could he share his honours better than with his dear little friend, Annot Stein? Jacques wanted her advice upon this subject, and he therefore rejoiced greatly that the path of duty was leading him this morning to Echanbroignes.
"Did you lay it on yourself?" said Doubleday, "or did you get any one to help you?" "Oh," I said, in as off-hand a manner as I could, "I was having a little box with Whipcord up at the Field-marshal's. You weren't there, by the way, Doubleday. Whipcord's rather a good hand." "Is he?" said Doubleday, laughing exuberantly, with Wallop and Crow as chorus.
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