And then again before we fired a shot, he bade all the soldiers kneel down, and down we went, the republicans firing at us all the time.

The soldiers call him Old Providence, for they say he talks a deal about Providence when he is fighting." "You may be sure that's what makes Father Jerome so fond of him," said Jean.

"I knew he was a good man." "And he was a desperate fellow to fight afterwards," continued Chapeau.
"But he walked into the thick of the fighting just as he is now." "But he had a sword, or a gun, or a spear ?" said Jean.
"Neither the one or the other; he was just as he is this minute, giving orders, and directing some of the men there who knew him well.
Presently, he said to a young gentleman who was near him: 'Lend me that sword a moment, will you ?' and he took it out of his hands, and made a rush through the gate of Fontenay, and I saw no more of him that day." "Why did you not rush after him, then, M.Chapeau ?" "Rush after him! Why, you simpleton; do you think in wars like that every man is to rush just where he pleases; you'll soon be taught the difference.

M.d'Elbee was a general, and might go where he liked; but I was a corporal under M.Henri, with ten men under me.

We had to remain where we were, and cut off the republicans, if they showed their noses at a point in the street which we covered; it's only the generals that go rushing about in that way.