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Of all men he dares not keep silence, of all men he would not keep silence if he dared, scum that he is. Within two days the King will know all Saxe's accusations, and if we do not act for ourselves another Tristan or another will come in our place. We will have destroyed ourselves for nothing, and there will be no hope for the girl, none. Can you not guess Tristan's methods with women?
I consider my personal honour is touched in the matter now, and I will not let the matter drop till justice is done." At the appointed time Ronald again called at Marshal Saxe's hotel, and watched the gay crowd of officers and nobles who were gathered in his reception rooms. An hour later a royal attendant entered and handed a document to the marshal. The latter glanced at it and looked around.
About ten miles before reaching Strasburg he dismounted from his chaise for he, seduced by the bad example of others, rode in a chaise and marched the ten last miles with his regiment, that he might get well soiled and dusty when presenting himself before the general commanding. Gaston Cheverny, who was Count Saxe's aide-de-camp, had ridden all the way from Paris, with the dog Bold at his heels.
"I am considering," said Monsieur Voltaire, with a wicked grin, "of making a new comedy something on the order of a roaring farce. Count Saxe's expedition to Courland will make excellent material. First act: Count Saxe going forth with Captain Babache and three hundred Uhlans, to conquer the universe.
My hope and prayer, mademoiselle, is that you are right and the King is making trial of our love and loyalty. In either case my place is at Valmy. La Mothe, order a horse to be saddled without delay." "There is one ready in Saxe's stable," answered La Mothe.
Which was true; and I ever thought it the highest tribute to Count Saxe's honor that this treacherous general who himself had no honor knew that Maurice of Saxe had and to it trusted his life and all his fortunes. Gaston Cheverny again crossed to the mainland.
Scriptores de Re Militari. Caesar's Commentaries. French translation, by De Crisse. Des Claison's History of Alexander and Caesar. D'Orleans' History of Revolutions in England and Spain. Marshal Saxe's Military Reveries. Guischard's Military Memoirs of the Greeks and Romans. Herodotus. Le Bean's Memoirs of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres. Lloyd's Military and Political Memoirs.
He sat very erect in his saddle, and from the way in which he straightened out his long legs against the sides of his beast, one suspected that he could, if necessary, repeat the Marshal de Saxe's feats of skill. He stopped his horse suddenly at the very spot which the two men had just vacated and called out in a voice which would startle a regiment of cuirassiers: "Here, Lambernier!"
Men of letters are highly esteemed in Courland where they are not much known." Monsieur Voltaire took snuff meditatively and I trembled for my master. "When you are Duke of Courland," said this tigerish monkey of a Voltaire, "Peggy Kirkpatrick says, you will be 'cousin' to the Kings of France and Spain." Madame Riano had bawled Count Saxe's affairs and Courland all over Paris.
I knew Count Saxe could beat them all to rags, and he could probably govern Courland as well as any of the other buccaneers after the crown. But I own from the beginning, I thought Count Saxe's genius lay in war, not in peace. This thought gave me great content, for if we succeeded, it was well if we failed, it was well.
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