We found it safe and brought it back with the Austrian standard.

The Emperor saluted it and commended us.

'I knew I could trust you,' he said, smiling." "He loved his Eagles," said another voice.
"That did he," answered a veteran.

"I have even seen him get out of his traveling-carriage and stand at attention as an Eagle at the head of a regiment marched by." "I carried the Eagle in Marshal Macdonald's column at Wagram, messieurs," said the old Eagle-bearer, stepping forward.

"It was there the bullet struck the wing tip, here." He laid his hand tenderly upon it.