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I have often since thought that I should be only too happy to render that man any service in my power; but two days after, the second battle of Leipzig took place; then the retreat from Hanau began, and I never saw him again. Sergeant Pinto and Zébédé came up a moment after. Zébédé said: "We have escaped once more, Joseph, and now we are the only Phalsbourg men in the battalion.
Others passed as if ashamed to recognize their birth-place; others went gayly to see their sisters or cousins, and everybody spoke of them. One would imagine that all Phalsbourg wore their crosses and their epaulettes; while the arrogant were despised even more than when they swept the roads.
That night the water froze in the cisterns of Phalsbourg and the wines in the cellars things that had not happened before for sixty years. On the bridge and under the German gate the silence seemed yet deeper than in the morning, and the night made it seem terrible. A few stars shone between the masses of white cloud that hung over the city.
It set the investing force free to crush the new-made Army of the Loire, and it occurred in the nick of time to prevent the raising of the siege of Paris, which the Germans had in contemplation." Smaller places held out nobly, Phalsbourg in Alsace, and Thionville and Toul, but above all Belfort.
I feel particularly peaceful in spirit, and a degree of resignation pervades my heart to be given fully up to do the will of my Heavenly Father. Our mode of travelling afforded us an opportunity of calling at Phalsbourg, where we found a handful of Protestants, about twenty-six families, mostly German settlers. On inquiring for the minister, we found he was engaged with his class at the college.
The mayors of the canton were seated in a semicircle, Monsieur the Sub-Prefect and the Mayor of Phalsbourg in the middle, in arm-chairs, and the Secretary Freylig at his table. A Harberg conscript was dressing himself, the gendarme Descarmes helping him put on his suspenders.
For two weeks after the battle of Hanau, thousands of wagons, filled with wounded, crowded the road from Strasbourg to Nancy, and passed through Phalsbourg. They stretched in one long line through all Alsace to Lorraine. Not one in the sad cortége escaped the eyes of Aunt Grédel and Catharine. What their thoughts were, I need not say.
But, notwithstanding, I will do as Catharine says; if she wishes me to go to Switzerland, I will go." Then Catharine, lowering her head to hide her tears, said in a low voice: "I would not have them call you a deserter." "Well, then, I will do like the others," I cried; "and as those of Phalsbourg and Dagsberg are going to the wars, I will go." Monsieur Goulden made no remark.
Our little company got smaller and smaller as men halted in their own villages, and when, on July 16, we reached Phalsbourg, Buche and I were alone. Buche went on to break the news of my return, but I could not wait, and ran after him. I heard people saying, "There's Joseph, Bertha," and in a moment I was in the house, and in Catherine's arms.
They were written in German, and he read them over to me. He desired to occupy, as a guarantee, Strasburg, Toul, and Phalsbourg; and as I had the day before named Paris as the place for the meeting of the Assembly, he wished in that case to have possession of some fort commanding the city. He named Fort Valérien. Here I interrupted him. 'You had better ask for Paris at once, I said.
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