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"Advance a pace or two, Captain," said the young officer I addressed; "you can see it all." I did so, and then beheld oh, with what delight and surprise! my poor friend, Pioche, seated on the driving-seat of a gun, with his hand in salute as the Emperor spoke to him. "Thou wilt not have promotion, nor a pension. What, then, can I do for thee?" said Napoleon, smiling.
The young Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne had inherited a taste for letters and was carefully instructed by her father, who was a field-marshal and the governor of Havre, where he died when she was only fifteen.
The absence of those who sympathize with our moments of joy and sorrow reduces our enjoyment to a narrow limit indeed. The only one of all I knew who would really have felt happy in my advancement was poor Pioche. He was beyond every thought of pleasure or grief. Thus reflecting, I turned towards my quarters at Brunn.
"Yes, parbleu!" said Pioche, wiping a large tear from his eye as he spoke; "he can make thee be a man, and make me feel like a girl." As Duroc attached the cross to the buttonhole of the vivandière's frock, she sat pale as death, totally overcome by her sensations of pride, and unable to say more than "Oh, Sire!" which she repeated three or four times at intervals.
But still, her former frankness was gone, and a sense of coldness, if not distrust, had usurped its place. I could make nothing of it. One thing alone did I feel convinced of, she did not love Pioche. Poor fellow! with all the fine traits of his honest nature, the manly simplicity and openness of his character, he had not those arts of pleasing which win their way with a woman's mind.
As he said this, he disclosed the mangled remains of a limb, torn from the trunk too high to permit of amputation. "Poor Amédée! it was the death he always wished for. It was a strange horror he had of falling by the hand of an adversary, rather than being carried off thus. And now for the cuirassier." So saying, he turned towards the bed on which Pioche lav, still as death itself.
Search my person and see if you find one of those things. No, Monsieur Populus, I am only a poor little bit of a cottager, I have never broken the laws in my life. I assure you I have no such thing on me. I never saw one, Monsieur." "My good Pioche Monsieur Pioche, citizen of the bailiwick of Grelot do not go on your knees to one whose only aim is to be the servant of our citizens."
"Thou hast some yonder," said Pioche, with a grim smile at the staff, "would be sore puzzled to keep their saddles as well." "Minette," said the Emperor, while he gazed on her handsome features with evident pleasure, "your name is well known to me for many actions of kindness and self-devotion.
The tones of the voice were familiar to me; I stopped to hear them more plainly. It was Minette herself the vivandière who sat there in the midst; beside her, half reclining in a deep, old-fashioned armchair, was "le gros Pioche," his huge beard descending midway on his chest, and his great mustache curling below his upper lip.
"Ha! was he of the Fourth, then?" said I, remembering the regiment. "Yes, parbleu! and though but a corporal, he was well known throughout the army. Pioche " "Pioche!" cried I, in agony; "is this Pioche?" "Here," said the wounded man, hearing the name, and answering as if on parade, "here, mon commandant! but too faint, I 'm afraid, for duty.
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