This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...come to hand-grips with a Prussian hussar. In fact, ho would have been involved in several sanguinary rows already, had not his discretion reminded him that the object of his coming there at all, namely, to arrange a meeting with an affluent widow, on whom he believed he had made a tender impression, would not havo ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...come to hand-grips with a Prussian hussar. In fact, ho would have been involved in several sanguinary rows already, had not his discretion reminded him that the object of his coming there at all, namely, to arrange a meeting with an affluent widow, on whom he believed he had made a tender impression, would not havo been promoted by his premature removal from the festive scene, of which he was an ornament, in charge of a couple of gens d'armes. 'Money! Gold! Bah! What money can a wounded soldier like your humble servant have amassed, with but his sword-hand left, which, being necessarily occupied, places not a finger at his command with which to scrape together tho spoils of a routed enemy?' 'No gold from him, ' said tho magician. 'His scars frank him.' 'Bravo, monsieur le propheto! Bravissimo! Here I am. Shall I begin, mon conjureur, without further loss of time, to question you?' Without waiting for an answer, he commenced, in Stentorian tones. After half-a-dozen questions and answers, he asked--Whom do I pursue at present?' 'Two persons.' 'Ha! Two? Well, who are they?' 'An Englishman, whom, if you catch, he will kill you; and a French widow, whom if you find, she will spit in your face.' 'Monsieur lo magicien calls a spade a spade, and knows that his cloth protects him. No matter'. Why do I pursue them?' 'The widow has inflicted a wound on your heart, and tho Englishman a wound on your head. They are each separately too strong for you; take care your pursuit docs not unite them.' 'Bah! How could that be?' 'The Englishman protects ladies, no has got that fact into your head. Tho widow, if she sees, will marry him. It takes some time, she will reflect, to become a colonel, and the Englishman is unquestionably young.' 'I will cut his cock's-comb for him, ' he ...
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