"
"No, I was not; it was only for a minute or two I was in the stable.
Would Cathelineau or Foret have turned their backs, think ye? When I was
alongside of those two men, I used to feel that the three of us were a
match for the world in arms; and they had the same feeling too exactly.
Well, two of the three are gone, but I would sooner have followed them
than have turned my back upon a blue."
"You're a great warrior, Peter, and it's a pity you didn't stay with the
army."
"Perhaps it is, perhaps it is. Perhaps I shouldn't have left it; but I
was driven away by little jealousies. Even great men have their
failings. But they certainly made some queer selections when they chose
the twelve captains at Saumur. There's not one of them left with the
army now but M. Henri, and what's he but a boy?"
"He has done a man's work at any rate!"
"He's brave, there's no denying that. He's very brave, but what then;
there's that impudent puppy of a valet of his, Chapeau; he's brave too:
at least they say so.
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