rolla-like

Updated: June 28, 2025

A Bonapartist colonel sees the cross on the soldier's breast, and, /mille tonnerres/! he settles the point. He pays for three reserved seats, one for the soldier, one for the child, and a third for the dog. The veteran enters, the child, not strong enough to have pushed through the crowd, raised on his shoulder, Rolla-like; the dog led by a string.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - What Will He Do with It? — Volume 03