The old man had purchased nearly as many bales of cotton as the Emperor had lost men during his magnificent campaign in France.

"I tie in goddon," said the father to the daughter, a father of the Goriot type, striving to quiet a grief which distressed him.

"I owe no mann anything--" and he died, still trying to speak to his daughter in the language that she loved.
Thankful to have saved his wife and daughters from the general wreck, Charles Mignon returned to Paris, where the Emperor made him lieutenant-colonel in the cuirassiers of the Guard and commander of the Legion of honor.

The colonel dreamed of being count and general after the first victory.

Alas! that hope was quenched in the blood of Waterloo.