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He fought at Constantine; he fought at St. Jean d'Ulloa; he fought at Sebastopol, and was conqueror." "Come, come, Father Nonesuch!" broke in "the youngster," and others of that group of veterans, "you are surely wandering. It was not the Emperor Napoleon who fought at those places. That was long after he was dead.
To cross the cabin was scarce possible; old experienced seamen were cast down upon the deck, and one cruelly mauled in the concussion; every board and block in the old ship cried out aloud; and the great bell by the anchor-bitts continually and dolefully rang. One of these days the Master and I sate alone together at the break of the poop. I should say the NONESUCH carried a high, raised poop.
For, remember, comrades," and the old man well-nigh exploded with his mathematical calculation, and the grandeur of his own recollections, "remember you this: I never left the great Napoleon!" "Ah, yes," another aged veteran chimed in; "ah, yes; he was a great man." Old Nonesuch clapped his hand to his ear.
Now his head would be in the zenith and his shadow fall quite beyond the NONESUCH on the farther side; and now he would swing down till he was underneath my feet, and the line of the sea leaped high above him like the ceiling of a room. I looked on upon this with a growing fascination, as birds are said to look on snakes.
"Do you not remember, Corsican, in the third year of the republic, as our government was then called, how the word came: 'The English are in Toulon! Soldiers of France, you must dislodge them!?" "Ah, do I not, old Nonesuch! I was a conscript then," replied the Corsican. "So, too, was I," said the old veteran. "We marched to Toulon. The next day there was an action.
Well, he's a detective hired by Potts to shadow me. You know that big fat one, lettin' on he's agent for the Nonesuch Duplex Washin' Machine? He's another. You know that slick-lookin' cuss like a minister been here all week, makin' out he was canvassin' for 'The Scenic Wonders of Our Land' at a dollar a part, thirty-six parts and a portfoly to pack 'em away in? Well, he's an "
"To call the emperor a man!" he exclaimed; "and what, then, will you call me?" "You? why, what should we?" said the Corsican veteran; "old Father Nonesuch, old 'Not Entire, otherwise, Corporal Francis Haut of Brienne." "Ah, bah!" cried the persistent veteran; "I do not mean my name, stupid!
On the road Tom he told me all about how it was reckoned I was murdered, and how pap disappeared pretty soon, and didn't come back no more, and what a stir there was when Jim run away; and I told Tom all about our Royal Nonesuch rapscallions, and as much of the raft voyage as I had time to; and as we struck into the town and up through the middle of it it was as much as half-after eight, then here comes a raging rush of people with torches, and an awful whooping and yelling, and banging tin pans and blowing horns; and we jumped to one side to let them go by; and as they went by I see they had the king and the duke astraddle of a rail that is, I knowed it WAS the king and the duke, though they was all over tar and feathers, and didn't look like nothing in the world that was human just looked like a couple of monstrous big soldier- plumes.
It was the English who invented that story; they did not know what he was capable of, those English! The emperor a man? Bah!" "What was he, then? A woman?" queried the Corsican. "Ah, stupid one! where are your wits?" cried old Nonesuch, shaking pipe and cane excitedly. "Are you, then, as dull as those English? Why, the emperor was the emperor! It is we, his soldiers, who were men."
"But why," asked the Corsican, as old Nonesuch concluded his story, and all the veterans applauded with cane and boot, "why did you not say, 'I wish to be a general, and keep your word. Others like you have been soldiers of the emperor and generals, marshals, princes." "Yes, Corsican," replied old Nonesuch sadly; "what you say is true. But I will tell you what prevented my advancement.
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