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"Votre Excellence," said Colonel d'Aboville, saluting, "moi cannoniers vous implorent de leur donner l'honneur immortel en mettant feu au premier coup de cannon." Washington, realizing that the speech was addressed to him, turned to Rochambeau with a helpless and questioning look. "Zay desire zat your Excellency does zem ze honneur to fire ze first gun," explained the French general.
For, though his glory was great, though he was the centre of all men's admiration, courted by nobles, flattered by princesses there is a letter from one of them, a sister of Frederick's, still extant, wherein the trembling votaress ventures to praise the great man's works, which, she says, 'vous rendent si célèbre et immortel' though he had ample leisure for his private activities, though he enjoyed every day the brilliant conversation of the King, though he could often forget for weeks together that he was the paid servant of a jealous despot yet, in spite of all, there was a crumpled rose-leaf amid the silken sheets, and he lay awake o' nights.
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