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Updated: June 16, 2025
"'Carrying the flag, which is not to fall into the hands of the Arabs. "'It's my hat that he took. "'He took what he could. And where does the circus charger gallop to? "'Ah! I know, I know, I exclaimed, in my turn, 'he goes to get the sutler. "'Precisely. He goes to get the sutler; and the sutler to-day, if you please, is I, Countess of Noriolis. Your big gray horse galloped into my grounds.
Besides, she, too, was examining me curiously, and all at once we both exclaimed, at the same time: "'Mme. de Noriolis! "'M. de La Roche-Targé! "A little while ago George spoke to us of his aunt, and mentioned how she had married him quite young, at one stroke, without giving him time to reflect or breathe.
Her adorable little head had rolled hap-hazard on my shoulder, and my lips just touched her hair. With my left hand I tried to recover the reins, with my right I supported Mme. de Noriolis; my leg hurt me frightfully, and I was seized with a queer feeling of confusion. "It was thus that Mme. de Noriolis made her first entry into La Roche-Targé.
In one jump he had placed his fore-feet on the carriage, then, that done, he quietly continued trotting on his two hind-legs. Bob, distracted, with his body thrown over and his head thrown back, was making vain attempts to put the horse back on his four legs. "As to Mme. de Noriolis, she was so well frightened, that, letting the reins drop from her hands, she had simply thrown herself in my arms.
"It was the map of the district of Chatellerault, a very correct and minute map, that my aunt had gone herself to the military station to buy, with the view of convincing me that I ought to marry Mme. de Noriolis. The places of Noriolis and of La Roche-Targé were scarcely three kilometers apart in that map.
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