[The Companions of Jehu by Alexandre Dumas, pere]@TWC D-Link bookThe Companions of Jehu CHAPTER XXIII 21/21
Will you come ?" "No." "As you please.
You are separating your fortunes from mine; I do not separate mine from yours." Then, calling to his orderly, he said: "My horse!" They brought his horse.
Seeing an artillery private near him, he said: "What are you doing among the epaulets ?" The artilleryman began to laugh. "Don't you recognize me, general ?" he asked. "Faith, it's Debel! Where did you get that horse and the uniform ?" "From that artilleryman you see standing there in his shirt.
It will cost you a corporal's commission." "You are wrong, Debel," said Bonaparte; "it will cost me two commissions, one for the corporal, and one for the general of division. Forward, march, gentlemen! We are going to the Tuileries." And, bending forward on his horse, as he usually did, his left hand holding a slack rein, his right resting on his hip, with bent head and dreamy eyes, he made his first steps along that incline, at once glorious and fatal, which was to lead him to a throne--and to St. Helena..
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