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Updated: September 19, 2025
Sophie from below besought me to come down and to give up the shako. The soldier tried to get up to me by means of the trapeze and the gymnasium rope. His useless efforts delighted all the pupils, whom the sisters had in vain tried to send away.
There's a quarrel going on!" We were suddenly silent, listening with all our ears. "Don't be stupid! It's idiotic! It's the Grand-Champs Convent!" "How am I to get my shako back?" These were the words we overheard, and then, as a soldier suddenly appeared astride on our wall, there were shrieks from the terrified children and angry exclamations from the nuns.
He took off his shako and ran his hand through his mop of red hair. "'Tis aither th' luck of th' Irish, me lad, or of th' Scotch. Oi don't ken which Oi'm haff each but mostly 'tis th' virtoo av me bonny red hair." "Why?" "Because, leastways, in th' Thomahlia, there's always a dhrop av royalty in th' red-headed. Me bonnie top-knot has made me a fortune.
We recognized them as Frenchmen, and the officer asked brusquely, "Where do you come from?" "From Mont-St.-Jean, lieutenant," I replied. "From what regiment are you?" "From the Sixth light infantry," I answered. He looked at the number on my shako, which was lying on the table, and at the same time I saw that his number was also the Sixth.
"Come, come! don't crowd so!" said he. "We are not much in the habit of running, what do you want?" But Pinacle, who was afraid of losing so good an occasion to show his zeal for Louis XVIII., instead of replying to him, smashed his shako at a blow, shouting, "Down with the cockade!"
The sun was almost above us when we stopped at a little place called Hal, where there is an old pump from which I drew and drank a shako full of water and never did a mug of Scotch ale taste as sweet. More guns passed us here, and Vivian's Hussars, three regiments of them, smart men with bonny brown horses, a treat to the eye.
Not greatly a creature of words, she had become moody of late; and even now, alive with light and feeling and animal life, she suddenly stopped her romp and run, and called the dog to her. "Heel, Shako!" she said, and made for the door of the little house, which looked so snug and home-like.
Let us take our own gait; long live joy! and forward" "Not so fast," said the Emperor, approaching him. "Certainly it must always be forward, but wait till I sound the charge." The quartermaster turned and recognized the Emperor, and, without being at all disconcerted, put his hand to his shako, and said, "That is useless trouble. Your Majesty does not need to beat a drum to make us move."
To give his fingers something to do he would cut switches, which he tapered and notched with marvelous figurings, and his steps gradually slackening he would come to a stop beside some ditch, his shako on the back of his head, while his eyes remained fixed on the knife with which he was carving the stick.
"And here is also a nice silk vest that belongs to it. Now, listen to me! I charge you twelve dollars for the whole suit; you will, therefore, receive twenty-eight dollars in money. Now you will, in the first place, buy your brother a fine rifle, such as Lutzow's riflemen need. You will pay ten dollars for it; besides a sword and a shako, which will cost together five dollars.
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