United States or Guyana ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
No jealousy on the part of Pioche could explain her abrupt departure from Elchingen, and her resolve never to rejoin the Fourth. She was, indeed, a strange girl, wayward and self-willed; but her impulses all had their source in high feelings of honor and exalted pride. It might have been that some chance expression had given her offence; yet she denied this.
"Forward! forward!" shouted the mailed ranks, half maddened by the exciting presence of Napoleon. The force was formed in four separate columns of attack: the First Cuirassiers leading; followed by the Carbineers of the Guard; then my own regiment; and lastly, the Fourth, the corps of poor Pioche. What would I have given to know he was there! But there was not time for such inquiry now.
A man named Wright, during the same season, built a still finer building just across the street from us; Pioche, Bayerque & Co. were already established on another corner of Jackson Street, and the new Metropolitan Theatre was in progress diagonally opposite us.
My visit was intended for you; and I have had the good fortune to come in for the tale mademoiselle was reading." Before I had concluded these few words, the wounded soldiers, or such of them as could, had risen from their seats, and stood respectfully around me; while Minette, retreating behind the great chair where Pioche lay, seemed to wish to avoid recognition.
"Hast any friend in the service whom I could advance for thy sake?» "Yes, parbleu!" said Pioche, scratching his forehead, with a sort of puzzle and confusion even the Emperor smiled at, "I have a friend. But mayhap those wouldn't like " "Ask me for nothing thou thinkest I could not, ought not to grant," said the Emperor, sternly. "What is't now?"
It was on one morning, after a very magnificent fête at the Arch-Chancellor's, that I remembered, for the first time, I had not seen my poor friend Pioche since his arrival at Paris.
As I rode homeward, I could not help turning over in my mind the words of Pioche, "Thou art not in thy uniform now; thou hast nothing to blush for!" Here, then, seemed the key to the changed manner of the poor girl when I met her at Austerlitz, some feeling of womanly shame at being seen in the costume of the vivandière by one who had known her only in another guise. But could this be so?
More particularly his Majesty decrees that the august people do declare its will upon the formation of a constitution and other grave matters, by appointing representatives of the Third Estate to the Assembly of the Estates-General." "I don't understand anything about all that." "My dear Monsieur Pioche, that does not matter in the slightest.
Still she hung down her head, and her confusion seemed only to increase; so that, unwilling to prolong her embarrassment, which I saw my presence had caused, I merely made a few inquiries from Pioche regarding his own health, and took my leave of the party.
"Thou wilt not have promotion, nor a pension," said Napoleon, smiling. "Hast any friend whom I could advance?" "Yes," answered Pioche, scratching his forehead in confusion. "She is a brave girl, and had she been a man " "Whom can he mean?" "I was talking of Minette, our vivandière." "Dost wish I should make her my aide-de-camp?" said Napoleon, laughing. "Parbleu!
Word Of The Day