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Updated: May 23, 2025
The crowd gathered round to see the foreigners thrashed. The lictors that is the soldier-servants of the prætors untied their bundles of rods. Then each lictor brought down his rod with cruel strokes on Paul and Silas. The rods cut into the flesh and the blood flowed down.
The soldier-servants wore white-cotton gloves and there were flowers on the table and menus with quaint little military sketches in the corners.
In the great kitchen blazed a fire, before which chickens and ducks were roasting, turkeys and geese cut up in pieces for greater rapidity of cooking, were grilling over the fire, and as they came off the gridiron they were taken round by the soldier-servants to their masters as they sat about on logs of wood, boxes, and other substitutes for chairs.
At the other end of the table was General Huguet, and across from me a young English nobleman, attached to the field marshal's staff, came in, a few minutes late, and took his place. The Prince of Wales, who lives there, had gone to the trenches the day before. Two soldier-servants served the meal. There was red wine, but none of the officers touched it. The conversation was general and animated.
His riding-groom had been one of his soldier-servants in the cavalry regiment a quaint sour tempered old man, not at all the sort of person to attend on a young lady taking her riding-exercise alone. "We must find a smart fellow who can be trusted," said the General. "I shall inquire at the club." For a week afterward, a succession of grooms, recommended by friends, applied for the vacant place.
Among these soldier-servants, I became acquainted with one, a Siberian, whose regiment was quartered in a small town in the government of Pultowa. He was a dragoon and servant to the Adjutant of the division, with whom I spent many hours in playing chess, and this man waited on us, bringing us tea, or whatever other refreshments we needed.
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