You are likely to have some stiff marching now, for only one other infantry regiment besides ours will accompany the cavalry, the rest will remain here until they get an opportunity of rejoining.

Of course I shall take Paolo and my four mounted troopers back with me to Paris.

I may probably send them on to la Villar, as it is not likely that I shall need them at court." On the evening of the fifth day after leaving Mayence Hector arrived in Paris, and alighted at the cardinal's hotel.
"So you are again a bearer of despatches, Monsieur Campbell," the cardinal said, as Hector entered his apartment.

"They need be important, or the marshal would hardly have sent you with them." "They are, as you will see, important, your eminence, but I am sent rather to explain further than the marshal could do in a letter his reasons for the step that he has taken.

As you have learned long before this, the Duke of Bavaria has proved false to his promises.