There was a simple grandeur, full of majesty, in this action.

Each raised his hat.
"Good luck!" said Roland to Cadoudal; "but allow me to doubt it.

I must even confess that it is from my lips, not my heart." "God keep you, sir," said Cadoudal, "and I hope that my wish will be realized.

It is the honest expression of my thoughts." "What is to be the signal that you are ready ?" inquired Roland.
"A musket shot fired in the air, to which you will reply in the same way." "Very good, general," replied Roland.

And putting his horse to a gallop, he crossed the space between the royalist general and the Republican general for the third time.
"Friends," said Cadoudal, pointing to Roland, "do you see that young man ?" All eyes were bent upon Roland.