When did they do that ?" "Just after the fight was over." "Umph! and what for ?" "Well, I luckily discovered that the Spaniards had set an ambush." "Come, come, let us hear all about it.

Tell us the whole story of the fight." Hector gave all the details.
"Well, it certainly seems to have been an extraordinary battle.

Everyone appears to have been beaten in turn." "Not Enghien's command, sir." "Well, no; but when cavalry are repulsed three times with a loss, as you say, of nearly half their numbers, it is pretty well equivalent to a beating; and if Enghien had not been able to bring up the artillery and reserves, I take it that the third charge would have been the last.
The ambush that you discovered was, I suppose, that of the thousand musketeers Enghien charged at the beginning of the fight." Hector nodded his assent.
"Well, it is as well they were found out and surprised before the other part of the business began, or there is no saying how the battle would have ended.

We heard you had got your company.

Turenne himself was good enough, when he came here to confer with Richelieu that summer, to call at the barracks and to give me an account of the service you had rendered.