The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-06-09

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knspsacks on their backs tbsif great esitte ~
reaching to their knee and muskpts ceS5aea, M ~
wna often .R shs ri. hs s.s
y: ho. many; 81 S:s:ssPa, sSi0f you We have .
II cannot ssy, Monsieur Goulden." would
reply. "at least four or Ave hundred tnou-
SA "Ye., 1t least :, he said, "and how many
have returned n
Then I understood his meaning ana an
swered: ~ ann.
other route It cannot be possible otherwise"
But he only shook his head, and said:
you
more will die; If the good God does NOT take
pity upon us, for the Emperor loves only "ai.
br s ns st crowns than our great Revolution
cost to win the rights OF man:
Then we set about our work again na so .no
reflections of Monsieur Gonlden gave me soWe
terrible subjects for thought.
1t was true that I was o little lame IN the
left leg but how many others with defects OF
These ideas kept running through my head,
end when I thought long . over ts snsh, Is
not only because had NO love for war, out
because was g9ing to h marry in Us some sort
9na seS toSs,Sar we eWhere could be found
c;ri 40 fresh and laughing. She was fair
haired, with beautiful blue eyes, rosy cnceks'
and teeth as white as milk She was app.CMac a.
ing eighteen I was Nineteen and Aunt mar
gredei seemed pleased to see me coming early AIRY
every Sunday morning to breakfast ana dine
Catharine and often won't into the orchard
behind the house there we bit the same apples les
and the same pears; we were .he HaRPi hsr
tn HIGH mass and vespers and on holidays she
never left my side, and refused to dance with
the other youths of the village. Everybody
knew that we would some day be married !;
but, if 1 should be 90 unfortunate as 10
q. he drawn in the CONSUMPTION, there was an
end of matters. wished that l was q thou u
sand times mere lame; for at the time OF
which I speak they had firt taken the un,
married men, then the married men who had
no children, then those with one child; a an
,e lows of Of more consequence than fathers OF
~ I familiesi Could they not put me in the cav,
airy The idea =, made sas,n me so unhappy 'na'
" Bnt IN IsiS at the beginning of the Russian
or war. my fear increased. From February unit
the end Of
carbineers hussars, lancers OF all colors, artl
he lery, caissons, anbnlances wagons, PROVISIONS
N, | and on and of which one can never see the END
DE still remember that this began with sol
,,a diers driving large wagons drawn ny oxen
icy we're to be used for food later on, when the!
IN, should have used up their provisions. Every
body said, What nne loea u When the sol
lt u. will feed the soldiers" Unhappily those WI!
a. at said this did not know that the cxen coult
er only make seven or eis5s leagues gay ha'
gs- must have at least one days rest 30 that' IN
ar deed, the poor animals' hoofs were already dr.
rge Standing saG out Of their heads and little bnt Ski
me and bone left of them. For three weeks the
kept passing in this way all torn with thrust
Sc killed many of the oxen, but few wanted thei
or fiesh the diseased meat being unhealthy. The
red never went more than twenty leagues beyon
the After that we saw more lancers sabres an
ms, helmets file past. All flowed through II
sarsame ssa oe at the German gate
- At last, on the 10th of May, in the year le1
e. in tho early morhing, the guns of the arsen
ese was yet sleeping when the first shot shook IL
mo, little panes of my window till they rattle
'r :a like a drum and Monsieur Goulden, with
le,r lighted candle, opened my door, saying, g.
'ide up, he is here!'
We opened the window. Through the nigl
ing ss saw hundred dragons of whom many DO
}. III torches, enter at q gallop under the Freps
sne gate; they shook the earth as they passes
reas their lights glanced along the house fronts lii
nds, heard eeaseless shouts Of "Vire pEmpereur !"
; rue was gazing at the carriage, when hor
IONS on. crashed against post to which the butch
Will The dragon fell heavily, his helmet rolled
, the gutter, and Immediately head leaned o
ther OF ene ad g1a nd Ia 18th inf ~ hair
way. the forehead: IL was Napoleon he held
lting nd sa;G Saw words roughly. The officer o
=, ioninr Sy the side of the coach bent down
nliea reply and his master took his snuff and tn
lnen- ed the corner, while the shouts redoubled a
times 'n m Sno ~ 49, 80
and ;rha E n Ala not atom at Pbalsbourp
ing when he was on the road to Saverne, the g.
cne fred their last shot, and silence reigned Of
WlCn more. The guards at the French gate raj
,uk , the drawbridge, and the old matchmaker So
Then mThavs Nons;enr Gouldenn
time " vii y he Continued " that man holds
our lives in his hand; he need but brea
oper, I"t ha "a not evil minded for If he were
n tee world would see again the horrors of the d
tne of the barbarian kings and the Turks"
Ter in ,A o 3. yo'.nan 90 So IeL ooa;n