The Forty-Five Guardsmen

interrogated the first soldier whom she saw pass as to the name of the captain who had co

she replied, "and one likes to kn

who conducted the review would not

he too grea

haps

t for himself that

whom

is fri

dge his friends

, who can h

Monsieur le Duc Nogaret de Lavalette d'Epernon, peer of Fran

s he, he did m

r him say 'p

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expected. On the evening of the 25th a man entered, be

he repast ordered for

much a

ix li

ave only one

t is

n found them a

senger, who went, and decline

mounted lackeys. Each of them produced the seal of Cleopatra's head, and were received with all sorts of courtesies, especially the young man with the lackeys. Nevertheless, excepti

the thieves were so adroit that they had stolen his hat as he had passed through a crowd, without his being able to see who had taken it.

d Fournichon to his wife

they were all countrymen, and he is a

believe it was

ree times the famo

ny faces; for an hour nothing was heard but "saudioux," "mordioux!" and "cap de Bious!" and such noisy joy, that it s

to find so many Gasc

Pincornay, "the sign is

the lackeys, "you have not yet explained to me what

?" asked Pinco

the road between Angoulême and Ang

interest yo

far from Paris, and you

St. Andre

ithout

t horses, and he is quite capable of disinheriting m

is t

eport of a gun that was fired close to me, and ran awa

th

o slip off, or I should h

e poor beast

w the Dordogne-hal

d t

home, but to go away as far as

your

my hat ha

ke

fall; I s

your

for it, being my only resource,

d your hat be

s fastened by a diamond clasp, that his majesty the emperor Charles V. gave to m

ought to be the richest of us all, and you should have bought another glove; your han

seek my hat I saw an enorm

your

he flew away with it, and I saw it no more. So that, overwhelmed by this doub

I heard you tell M. de Loignac that the wind had carried i

who, though a brave soldier, writes well, and I recommend you to tel

fled laughs

ried the Gascon, "

d away to

e fireplace hiding his face in his hands. He thought it was to

ou laugh, at all ev

p; it was our friend E

e alone," said he, "I w

rumbling; but at this mo

ac!" cried t

ugh all Gascony, every o