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It would be to lose the opportunity of exhibiting himself and his prowess on the great festival of the year, together with those subsequent hours of repose and reward for danger and fatigue endured which heroes of all ages, from the quaffers of mead in the halls of Odin to the "food for powder" around the vivandière's paniers, have never disdained.
She could not know that the vivandiere's assistant on the highway, with her abandoned child, had cast the first germ into Barbara's mind. Moreover, she was content to be able to send such welcome tidings to the camp. The disclosure of the resolve which she had reached after such severe conflicts exerted a beneficial influence upon Barbara.
"Yes, parbleu!" said Pioche, wiping a large tear from his eye as he spoke; "he can make thee be a man, and make me feel like a girl." As Duroc attached the cross to the buttonhole of the vivandière's frock, she sat pale as death, totally overcome by her sensations of pride, and unable to say more than "Oh, Sire!" which she repeated three or four times at intervals.
He consented and, as the girl now flung a gold gulden to the blond leader of the voices, cheers from the soldiers followed them. Leaning on Gombert's arm, Barbara now moved on more cheerfully until they were stopped by the vivandiere's counter.
She could not know that the vivandiere's assistant on the highway, with her abandoned child, had cast the first germ into Barbara's mind. Moreover, she was content to be able to send such welcome tidings to the camp. The disclosure of the resolve which she had reached after such severe conflicts exerted a beneficial influence upon Barbara.
She was gentle to her as to a young bird, a young kitten, a young colt; what her brother had said of the vivandiere's love for one whom the girl only knew as a trooper of Chasseurs filled with an indefinable compassion the woman who knew him as her own equal and of her own Order. Cigarette, for once, answered nothing; her eyes very lowering, burning, savage. "You wish to see me?"
Still he was fairly handsome enough not to have muttered so heavy an oath as he did at the vivandiere's jest. "Sacre bleu! I wish my corporal were shot! One can never hear the last of him." Cigarette darted a quick glance at him. "Oh, ho; jealous, mon brave!" thought her quick wits. "And why, I wonder?"
He consented and, as the girl now flung a gold gulden to the blond leader of the voices, cheers from the soldiers followed them. Leaning on Gombert's arm, Barbara now moved on more cheerfully until they were stopped by the vivandiere's counter.
He consented and, as the girl now flung a gold gulden to the blond leader of the voices, cheers from the soldiers followed them. Leaning on Gombert's arm, Barbara now moved on more cheerfully until they were stopped by the vivandiere's counter.
Bertie, with his hand on Vivandiere's pommel, after taking a deep draught of sparkling Rhenish, looked on at it all with a pleasant sigh of amusement. "By Jove!" he murmured softly, with a contented smile about his lips, "that was a ringing run!"
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