There was so much movement and action that he wanted to be a part of it.

He had thrown in his lot with this army and he wanted to share its work at once.

Yet much time passed, and de Rougemont did not return.

The evidences that the great French army was marching to the point designated in the note brought by Lannes multiplied.

From the crest of the hill he already saw large bodies of troops marching forward steadily, their long blue coats flapping awkwardly about their legs.