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He called Rapp, and told him to take the command from the Duke of Abrantes: he would dismiss him from the army! he had lost his marshal's staff without retrieve! this blunder would probably block the road to Moscow against them; that to him, Rapp, he should intrust the Westphalians; that he would speak to them in their own language, and he would know how to make them fight.
Confederate officers, members of the diplomatic corps, newly fledged chamberlains and officials of the palace, the marshal's officers, Frenchmen, Austrians, Belgians, and a few Mexicans, would drop in, each group bringing its own interests, and, alas! its animosities. Laws against foreigners having been passed, no property could henceforth be held by them unless they became naturalized.
You will marry a maid of honour and die a marshal of France." M. Étienne laid his arm around Vigo's shoulder with a smile. "Good old Vigo! Vigo, tell me this; if you saw a marshal's baton waiting you in the field, and at home your dearest friend were alone and in peril, would you go off after glory?" "Aye, if 'twas a hopeless business to stay, certes I would go." "Oh, tell that in Bedlam!"
One fixed it on the point of his spear, thrust it back into the fire, and watched it frizzle away; and finally, by the Marshal's orders, they gathered all the ashes together, and tossed them into the Rhine. He had died, says a Catholic writer, for the noblest of all causes. He had died for the faith which he believed to be true. The excitement in Bohemia was intense.
Desolated, Dannel begged me to intercede for him, which I did with so much zeal that he was reinstated in the marshal's good graces; since when the valet had been devoted to me.
There is no comparison between a well-managed thing like Napoleon's army and an unmanageable thing like modern competition. Logically, doubtless, it was impossible that every soldier should carry a marshal's baton; they could not all be marshals any more than they could all be mayors. But if the French soldier did not always have a baton in his knapsack, he always had a knapsack.
The Prince went up to his old comrade, looked him in the face, and shouted in his ear as he grasped his hand: "Are you a man?" "You will see that I am." "Well, then, pull yourself together! You must face the worst misfortune that can befall you." The Prince turned round, took some papers from the table, and placed them in the Marshal's hands, saying, "Read that."
The Marshal tasted it, sipped it critically, and finally replied, "There is better," in a tone which was unmistakable. The Emperor, who had expected a different reply, smiled, as did all the guests, at the Marshal's candor.
The Emperor made him a commander of the Legion of Honor and a count. "General Count Rusticoli, for he became a brigadier-general at Ratisbon and a general of the division on the field of Wagram, died at Vienna almost immediately after his promotion, or his name and ability would sooner or later have brought him the marshal's baton.
"Instantly; I told the coroner all about it. Whoever the fellow was I reckon he meant the shot for me, but poor José got it." "Yer didn't glimpse the critter?" "No, it was long after dark. I've got my suspicions, but they'll keep. Seen Bill Lacy this morning?" The marshal's thin lips smiled grimly as his eyes lifted to Westcott's face. "He's back there in his office. That's what I stopped yer for.
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