That being done, I'll answer for the rest." "But how is such a madman to be gotten rid of ?" "I see but one way, but it is almost infallible--to excite his dominant passion.

These fellows sometimes imagine that they are in love, but, at the bottom, they love nothing but powder.

The thing is, to fling Fougas back into the current of military ideas.

His breakfast to-morrow with the colonel of the 23d will be a good preparation.

I made him understand to-day that he ought, before all, to reclaim his rank and epaulettes, and he has become inoculated with the idea.