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To an author of such distinguished reputation as the Abbe Raynal, it might very well become me to apologize for the present undertaking; but as to be right is the first wish of philosophy, and the first principle of history, he will, I presume, accept from me a declaration of my motives, which are those of doing justice, in preference to any complimental apology, I might otherwise make.
The Abbe Raynal and myself watched over him; the abbe, more robust, and in better health than I was, by night, and I by day, without ever both being absent at one time. The Comte de Friese was alarmed, and brought to him Senac, who, after having examined the state in which he was, said there was nothing to apprehend, and took his leave without giving a prescription.
Stay, here is a candle; I go to tell mamma you are come; and, Colonel Raynal, I never injured YOU: if you tell my mother you will stab her to the heart, and me, and may the curse of cowards light on you! may" "Enough!" said Raynal, sternly. "Do you take me for a babbling girl? I love your mother better than you do, or this brat of yours would not be here.
Raynal grumbled something about its being a childish trick; but to please Edouard consented at last; only stipulated for a light: "or else," said he, "we shall surprise ourselves instead with a broken neck, going over ground we don't know to surprise the natives our skirmishers got nicked that way now and then in Egypt." "Yes, colonel, I will go first with Jacintha's candle."
When my heart was in anguish: Thou hast exalted me on a rock. Ps. lx. 3. This was the letter that I read in my parlour that night, as the man in his livery stood beside me, dusty with riding. "There is a young man here named Master Richard Raynal, who tells us that you are his friend. He desires to see you before his death, for he has been set upon and will not live many days.
Raynal read this aright, and turned to him, "A droll marriage, my old friend; I'll tell you all about it if ever I have the time. It began with a purchase, general, and ends with with a bequest, which I might as well write now, and so have nothing to think of but duty afterwards. Where can I write?" "Colonel Dujardin will lend you his tent, I am sure." "Certainly."
You go to certain death I tell you, if you attack that bastion." "Don't be a fool, colonel," said Raynal: "somebody must lead the men." "Yes; but not you. Who has so good a right to lead them as I, their colonel?" "And be killed in my place, eh?" "I know the ground better than you," said Camille. "Besides, who cares for me? I have no friends, no family.
Besides Voltaire, who presided over this coterie, at least in spirit, the daily company included Diderot, an enthusiast by nature and a cynic and sophist by profession; D'Alembert, a genius of the first order in mathematics, though less distinguished in literature; the malicious Marmontel, the philosopher Helvetius, the Abbe Raynal, the furious enemy of all modern institutions; the would-be sentimentalist Grimm, and D'Holbach himself.
"Of course she did; but this was anticipated in my instructions. I am to be sure and not take the first two or three refusals." "O Josephine, look at that insolent boy: he has found you out." "Insolent boy!" cried Raynal; "why, it is the referee of your own choosing, and as well behaved a lad as ever I saw, and a zealous officer."
He must have been struck before the bastion was taken even." "I was, colonel, I was. I remember nothing but losing my senses, and feeling the colors go out of my hand." "There, you see, he knows nothing," said Raynal. "It was hot work, colonel, under that bastion, but it was hotter to the poor fellows that got in. I heard all about it from Private Dard here."
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