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"Well," said Roquefinette, "I see so many greenhorns at the heads of regiments, that I also have thought of being a colonel." "Colonel? Impossible!" "Why so?" "Because, if they make you a colonel, you who only hold a secondary position in the affair, what am I to ask, I, who am at the head?" "That is the very thing: I wish to change positions for the moment.
Now, there is in the world one man, and one only, who can free you from your troubles that man is Captain Roquefinette, and you offer him the same place he held before! Fie, chevalier! you wish to bargain with him. Remember, pretensions increase with the services to be rendered. I am now an important personage. Treat me as such, or I put my hands in my pockets, and leave Dubois to do as he likes."
D'Harmental made three steps toward the door, then he remembered that Roquefinette might have some memorandum about him which might serve as a guide. In spite of his repugnance, he searched the pockets of the corpse, one after another, but the only papers he found were two or three old bills of restaurateurs, and a love-letter from La Normande.
I will have the management of the affair, or I will have nothing to do with it." "But this is treason!" cried D'Harmental. "Treason, chevalier! And where have you seen, if you please, that Captain Roquefinette was a traitor? Where are the agreements which I have made and not kept? Where are the secrets which I have divulged? I, a traitor!
Captain Roquefinette made two or three tours round the Bois de Boulogne, walking, trotting, and galloping, in order to appreciate the different qualities of his horse; and having satisfied himself that it was, as the chevalier had told him, a fine and pure-blooded animal, he returned to Durand's hotel, where he ate, all alone, the breakfast which had been ordered for three.
But I to ask without having a right to ask! It may do for a church rat, but not for a soldier; although I am only a simple gentleman, I am as proud as a duke or a peer; but, pardon me, if you want me, you know where to find me. Au revoir, chevalier! au revoir!" And, without waiting for D'Harmental's answer, Roquefinette left him, not thinking it safe that they should be seen talking together.
"Oh!" said he, putting down his glass with a respectful slowness, "what have I done, unworthy that I am? I drink nectar as if it were trash, and that at the beginning of the feast! Ah!" continued he, shaking his head, "Roquefinette, my friend, you are getting old.
"I have recognized you for the last five minutes, but it was not my business to speak first." "And I see with pleasure," said D'Harmental, "that Captain Roquefinette is still prudent." "Prudentissimo, chevalier; so if you have any new overture to make, out with it." "No, captain, no; not at present, at least. Besides, the place is not suitable for a conference of that nature.
Honore, where thanks to La Normande he hoped to have news of Captain Roquefinette. In fact, from the moment that a lieutenant for his enterprise had been spoken of, he had thought of this man, who had given him, as his second, a proof of his careless courage.
"I mean that you thought you could make open war, and consequently put poor Captain Roquefinette aside, as a bandit, who is good for nothing but a nocturnal blow at a street corner, or in a wood; and now Dubois knows all; the parliament, on whom we thought we might count, have failed us, and has said yes, instead of no. Now we come back to the captain. My dear captain here! my good captain there!
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