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Updated: May 21, 2025
He knew that at any cost France must lead off with a victory, not only for the sake of the little man in the red trousers, but to impress watching Europe, and perhaps snatch an ally from among the hesitating powers. And the result was Saarbrueck.
"I was wondering," said Mademoiselle Brun, speaking slowly, and in a manner that demanded for the time the colonel's undivided attention, "whether our friend the Count de Vasselot could have been at Saarbrueck." "The Count de Vasselot," said Colonel Gilbert, with an air of friendly surprise. "Has he quitted his beloved chateau? He is so attached to that old house, you know."
Denise returned to the house at luncheon-time, entered by the window, and caught Mademoiselle Brun hastily shutting an atlas. "I was wondering," she said, "where Saarbrueck might be, and whether any one we know had time to get there before the battle." "Yes." "But Colonel Gilbert will tell us." "Colonel Gilbert?" inquired Denise, turning rather sharply. "Yes.
In our respective positions, you and I must rise above small differences of opinion; and I place myself unreservedly at your service. I write to tell you that I have this morning good news from France. We have won a small victory at Saarbrueck. So far, so good.
"He has joined his regiment," replied Mademoiselle Brun, upon whom the burden of the conversation fell; for Denise had gone to the open window, and was closing the shutters against the sun. "Ah! Then I can tell you that he was not at Saarbrueck. The count's regiment is not in that part of the country. I was forgetting that he was a soldier. He is, by the way, your nearest neighbour."
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