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This soldier, guide of the sisters, and formerly a horse-grenadier of the Imperial Guard, had been nicknamed Dagobert.
"You will laugh at me, my dear boy," said Dagobert to his son; "but I wished the night to the devil, in order that I might gaze upon you in full day, as I now see you. But all in good time; I have lost nothing. Here is another silliness of mine; it delights me to see you wear moustaches. What a splendid horse-grenadier you would have made! Tell me; have you never had a wish to be a soldier?"
"You will laugh at me, my dear boy," said Dagobert to his son; "but I wished the night to the devil, in order that I might gaze upon you in full day, as I now see you. But all in good time; I have lost nothing. Here is another silliness of mine; it delights me to see you wear moustaches. What a splendid horse-grenadier you would have made! Tell me; have you never had a wish to be a soldier?"
"Madame Augustine was attacked in the night with cholera, and taken " He was unable to finish. Dagobert struck him a tremendous blow with his fist, right on the jaw, and, putting forth his still formidable strength, the old horse-grenadier lifted him to his legs, and with one violent kick bestowed on the lower part of his back, sent him rolling into the ante chamber.
"Madame Augustine was attacked in the night with cholera, and taken " He was unable to finish. Dagobert struck him a tremendous blow with his fist, right on the jaw, and, putting forth his still formidable strength, the old horse-grenadier lifted him to his legs, and with one violent kick bestowed on the lower part of his back, sent him rolling into the ante chamber.
Dagobert! said he to your father, who was talking to him about me; 'a horse-grenadier of my old guard a soldier of Egypt and Italy, battered with wounds an old dare-devil, whom I decorated with my own hand at Wagram I have not forgotten him! I vow, children, when your mother read that to me, I cried like a fool."
This soldier, guide of the sisters, and formerly a horse-grenadier of the Imperial Guard, had been nicknamed Dagobert.
Dagobert! said he to your father, who was talking to him about me; 'a horse-grenadier of my old guard a soldier of Egypt and Italy, battered with wounds an old dare-devil, whom I decorated with my own hand at Wagram I have not forgotten him! I vow, children, when your mother read that to me, I cried like a fool."
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