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Vittoria

CHAPTER IX
13/35

Itinerant musicians, and none but this fry, continued to be attentive to the dispensers of soldi.
The Austrian army prides itself upon being a brotherhood.

Discipline is very strict, but all commissioned officers, when off duty, are as free in their intercourse as big boys.

The General accepts a cigar from the lieutenant, and in return lifts his glass to him.

The General takes an interest in his lieutenant's love-affairs: nor is the latter shy when he feels it his duty modestly to compliment his superior officer upon a recent conquest.

There is really good fellowship both among the officers and in the ranks, and it is systematically encouraged.
The army of Austria was in those days the Austrian Empire.


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