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"Quite true," said the keeper. "Come now, M. Goguelat, tell us about the Emperor." "The evening is too far gone," said the postman, "and I do not care about cutting short the story of a victory." "Never mind, let us hear about it all the same! We know the stories, for we have heard you tell them many a time; but it is always a pleasure to hear them."
Lamartine, "Histoire des Girondins," xiii., p.18. The messenger was M. Goguelat: he took the name of M. Daumartin, and adhered to the cause of his sovereigns to the last moment of their lives. In many respects the information De Fersen sends to his king tallies precisely with that sent by Breteuil to the emperor; he only adds a few circumstances which had not reached the baron.
In the course of which I became so interested in demonstrating my present danger that I forgot all about my future safety, and not only told him the story of Goguelat, but threw in the business of the drovers as well, and ended by blurting out that I was a soldier of Napoleon's and a prisoner of war.
'I beg your pardon, sir, said I. 'I have been unjust. I did not appreciate my danger. 'I think you never do, said he. 'But yet surely that public scene I began. 'It was madness. I quite agree with you, Mr. Romaine interrupted. 'But it was your uncle's orders, Mr. Anne, and what could I do? Tell him you were the murderer of Goguelat? I think not.
He nodded his little bob-wigged head at us, and said repeatedly, "All right, Johnny me comprong." Then Goguelat shook hands with me, embraced me again, and I went out of the room sobbing like an infant. How often have I not seen it, that the most unpardonable fellows make the happiest exits! It is a fate we may well envy them.
Unfortunately, at the same time that the Queen sent away M. de Goguelat, she still believed that, in a dangerous predicament, requiring great self-devotion, the man might be employed advantageously. In 1791 he was commissioned to act in concert with the Marquis de Bouille in furtherance of the King's intended escape.
The next day Gondrin and Goguelat, and Butifer, with others, set to work to raise a sort of pyramid of earth, twenty feet high, above the spot where M. Benassis lies; it is being covered now with green sods, and every one is helping them. These things, dear father, have all happened in three days. "M. Dufau found M. Benassis' will lying open on the table where he used to write.
"Tell us about the Emperor!" cried several voices at once. "You will have it?" answered Goguelat. "Very good, but you will see that there is no sense in the story when it is gone through at a gallop. I would rather tell you all about a single battle. Shall it be Champ-Aubert, where we ran out of cartridges, and furbished them just the same with the bayonet?" "No, the Emperor! the Emperor!"
'I have that honour, sir, said I. 'You have seen me for the same period. I do not know how I strike you; but perhaps you will be prepared to believe that I also am a man of honour, said he. 'I require no assurances; the thing is manifest, and I bowed. 'Very well, then, said he. 'What about this Goguelat? 'You heard me yesterday before the court, I began. 'I was awakened only
I laid down my carving; greeted him with a good deal of formality, such as I thought he would enjoy; and finding him to remain silent, branched off into narratives of my campaigns such as Goguelat himself might have scrupled to endorse.
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