13/50 "That is always the way with these journals," said she. "Austrians! Prussians! when it's Egypt one wants to hear about."-- "No, not a word about Egypt," said the doctor; "but there is a whole column about the Rhine, where Colonel Dujardin is--and Dard. If I was dictator, the first nuisance I would put down is small type." He then spelled out a sanguinary engagement: "eight thousand of the enemy killed. We have some losses to lament. Colonel Dujardin"-- "Only wounded, I hope," said the baroness. |