The Whites and the Blues. Alexandre Dumas

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      "Well, if I had been eaten, general, there would have been no one to prevent the enemy from passing; it was that thought which determined me to fire. I give you my word of honor that the question of personal safety did not come till later."

      "But this shot may have awakened the enemy's advance-posts."

      "Don't worry about that, general; if they heard it, they have taken it for a mere poacher's shot."

      "Are you a Parisian?"

      "Yes, but I belong to the first battalion of the Indre; I am a volunteer."

      "Well, Faraud, the only advice I have to give you is not to let me see you again until you have won your corporal's stripes, so that I may forget the breach of discipline which you have committed to-day."

      "What shall I do to win them, general?"

      "You must bring two Prussian prisoners to your captain to-morrow, or rather, to-day."

      "Soldiers or officers, general?"

      "Officers would be better, but privates will do."

      "I shall do my best, general."

      "Who has some brandy?" asked Pichegru.

      "I have," said Doumerc.

      "Well, give this coward a drink; he has promised to bring us two prisoners to-morrow."

      "Suppose I only make one, general?"

      "Then you will only be half a corporal, and will only have one stripe to wear."

      "Oh! that would make me squint! To-morrow evening I shall have them both, general, or you may say, 'Faraud is dead.' To your health, general!"

      "General," said Charles to Pichegru, "it was with words like those that Cæsar made his Gauls invincible."

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