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Updated: May 3, 2025
"What is your difficulty, Captain Tournier?" said the major, rather coldly. "Among the prisoners who arrived yesterday was a certain Colonel Fontenoy, who is my bitterest enemy, having wronged me past all endurance. I cannot be in the same quarters with him. Could you do me the very great kindness of putting me into one of the other wards, even though it be that of common men?"
"He seems so cheerful," she remarked to her brother, "going back to that horrid place after all the comforts he has enjoyed with us." "Ah, dear Alice," he replied, "Tournier always was a man, but he is more a man than ever now, and is going to play the man with his troubles, which is far harder work than fighting with sword and pistol."
"Why, Tournier, my friend," cried a young fellow, marching with the officers at the head of the column, "how miserable you look! Who would think you were almost at the end of your journey, and about to find repose in the hotel the English have provided for us? I have not seen a smile on your face since the day you left Portugal. Courage, man, or we shall all have the blue-devils!"
And the tears came again, with a wee bit of vexation in them, and kept on at intervals, till kindly sleep at length fell on those dear blue eyes, and dried them up. And while this was going on, her brother and his friend were smoking and talking together below. "You must find it very wearysome, Tournier, to live by yourself now. You are not the man to like that sort of thing.
"Whenever I see her," his mother would write, "I seem to see you; and she says the same of me." For the last few months, however, Tournier could not but observe, but most unwillingly, there had been a gradual cessation of these fond remarks in his mother's letters, and, worse still, a corresponding chilliness in those of his Elise.
Villemet could not make out what was the matter with him. One day they were walking together in the yard, when Tournier suddenly said, "Villemet, I want you to do something for me. It will, perhaps, be the last favour you will ever show me." "Then I would rather not do it." "But you must. Who do you think is in the prison at this present moment? Fontenoy. He came with the others some days ago."
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