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"Monsieur will probably explain himself," said François, with one of his cold smiles of excessive deference. "It is exactly what I mean to do, François." "Come, sirs, none of this," broke in the major. "Lieutenant Tascher, you may not fancy being placed under an arrest when the enemy is in the field.
Miss Custer hardly knew what to do with herself. She went back to her room, and was tempted to lie down, but then it would rumple her dress and spoil her hair. She thought of the invalid lady, Mrs. Tascher, whose room was at the other end of the hall, but she had an uncomfortable intuition that Mrs. Tascher disliked her.
"The college friend and brother officer of your cousin Tascher, Pauline." The young lady courtesied with an air of cold reserve; I bowed deeply before her; while the countess continued, "We hope to have the pleasure of seeing you frequently during your stay in Paris, when we shall have a better opportunity of making your acquaintance."
In the course of half an hour the doctor and Miss Custer appeared in sight, walking slowly toward the house. They passed directly under her window, but their voices were so low that she could distinguish no word. By and by she heard the piano going. A moment after Mrs. Tascher tapped on her door, and, turning the knob, put her head in and called, "Ruth!" Ruth got up and came forward.
It's very easy to be satisfied when one has everything his own way." "And so, Tascher, you deem me such a fortunate fellow?" "That I do," replied he, quickly. "You have had more good luck, and made less of it, than any one I ever knew. What a career you had before you when we met first!
As I read thus far aloud, Tascher interrupted me, snatching the paper from my hands, and continued thus: "Then and there to mope, muse, and be ennuyé until such time as active service may again recall him to the army. My dear Burke, I am really sorry for you. Wars and campaigning may be indeed they are very fine things; but as the means, not the end.
Now, gentlemen, pass down the brandy, and let the man with most credit go seek for sugar at the canteen." While François commenced his operations, Tascher proceeded to recount to me the miserable life he had spent in garrison towns, till the outbreak of the campaign had called him on active service.
But he soon changed his mind when he reflected that most of the figures were represented in naturalibus, which would appear incongruous in an apartment used for grand diplomatic receptions, and in which the Council of Ministers usually sat. The last of January, Mademoiselle de Tascher, niece of her Majesty the Empress, was married to the Duke of Aremberg.
At Paris the niece of Josephine, Mademoiselle de Tascher, whom Napoleon had lately exalted to the rank of Princess, was married to the reigning Prince of Ahremberg, while at the same time Junot declared to Portugal that the house of Braganza had ceased to reign, and French troops were, under the command of General Miollis, occupying Rome.
"Can it be really so?" said I, in equal astonishment. "Are you Tascher?" "Yes, my dear friend; the same Tascher you used to disarm so easily at college, a colonel at last. But why are you not at the head of a regiment long since? Oh! I forgot, though," said he, in some confusion; "I heard all about it. But come in here; I've no better quarters to offer you, but such as it is, make it yours."
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