You will have news for me then ?" "Or be dead, Sire." "I have no use for dead men.

Don't get yourself taken.

Any fool can die, or be made prisoner.

It is a wise man who can live for me and France." "I shall live," said the young man simply.

"Have you any further command, Sire ?" "None." The hand of Marteau was raised in salute.
"Stop," said the Emperor, as the soldier turned to the door.
"Sire ?" "Come back with news, and let us but escape from this tightening coil, and you shall be a lieutenant colonel in my guard." "I will do it for love of your majesty alone," cried the soldier, turning away.
It was not nearly dawn before Berthier and Maret, who had been pondering over the dispatch to Caulaincourt, who was fighting the envoys of the allies at the Congress at Chatillon, ventured to intrude upon the Emperor.