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Re-entering the inn, the officer preceded me up stairs, and after a moment's delay, introduced me into the presence of General Letort, then commanding a cavalry brigade. "I have heard your request, sir. Where is your commission? Have you got it with you?" I handed it to him in silence. He examined it rapidly; and then turning the reverse, read the few lines inscribed by the minister of war.
Dreadful as the suffering of my wound was, I carried a deeper one within my heart. "The Emperor has given you his own cross of the Legion, sir," said the surgeon, endeavoring to rally me from a dejection whose source he knew not. "He has made him a general of brigade, too," said a voice behind him. It was General Letort who spoke; he had that moment come from the Emperor with the tidings.
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