Leon concluded by saying that he would only give up his betrothed with life itself.

The Colonel shrugged his shoulders and turned his back, carrying off, without stopping to consider what he was doing, the father's clothes and the son's hat.

He asked M.Rollon for five hundred francs, engaged a room at the _Hotel du Cadron-bleu_, went to bed without any supper, and slept straight through until the arrival of his seconds.
There was no necessity for giving him an account of what had passed the previous day.

The fogs of punch and sleep dissipated themselves in an instant.

He plunged his head and hands into a basin of fresh water, and said: "So much for my toilet! Now, _Vive l'Empereur!_ Let's go and get into line!" The field selected by common consent was the parade-ground--a sandy plain enclosed in the forest, at a good distance from the town.