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"I don't know about that," said Jean, "but we all did the best we could,
I believe."
"And was Chapeau really second?" said Momont, who was becoming jealous
of the distinction likely to be paid to his junior fellow-servant. "You
don't mean to say he went in before all the other gentlemen?"
"Gentlemen, indeed!" said Chapeau. "What an idea you have of taking a
town by storm, if you think men are to stand back to make room for
gentlemen, as though a party were going into dinner."
"But tell us now, Jean Stein," continued Momont, "was Chapeau really
second?"
"Well then," said Jean, "he was certainly second into the water, but he
was so long under it, I doubt whether he was second out--he certainly
did get a regular good ducking did Chapeau. Why, you came out feet
uppermost, Chapeau."
"Feet uppermost!" shouted Momont, "and is that your idea of storming a
town, to go into it feet uppermost?"
"But do you really mean to say that you were absolutely wet through when
you took Saumur?" said the laundress.


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