San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-16

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':And is this your fist visit to Amer
ica?" she inquired at length. i'l" ia.
II feel already So lHuch at home that
can hardly think it is my first, !" he re-,
piled, / land / am nearly decided, to make
this my home, France. is not, or ever
will be, the France she.was."gg" D. .ruit
"Then, you 'arD all iiuperialist? But we
have no emperoIs hereg' ~ rsuuHm
"Frenchmen are not like Americans;
they need the Strong hand The De
Lisles were Frenchtnen generations be-
fore the first NAPOLEON lie It Corsica. They
were .monarchiSts;, but at present there,
is still less hope. for the king than for the
emperor. II AS for meal was with Ma
poleon during the, war with Germany,
and Howei him much. Gu ' q Yiu .aE-r
''You knewnNapoleon himself ?@Did
you like himT,HeaMH, C'D.ih' e.. llBs Il
Il owe him much, repeated the count.
Il cannot criticise him. He was great
adventurer, and he conquered fortune
for time"
But What did he do especially for
yonr'Iin HEs-f' T'rttt'. ;sGL EF''H
Welt said the count, 'hesitating
little, ."he gave me the Cross OF the.
Legion, and he gave me. my, title. Ny
father was plain gentleman" -
"What had you done to win the CROSSE"
The count smiled. II was not great
soldier, he said, SbutI had good luck.
Opportunities Game in my way. You re-
member, that Bazaine fought al, the battle
of Grayelotte, pear; Metz. on the sigh-
tenth of August il I.an.i frm e
Olympia nodded. ln'sAnd he shut him
! self up in Metz the same night" Tiu
., Eyes; | see You are not ignorant of
these things. r Well, then, he wished to
send, news to MacMahon. who was some
where to the west of us-itmightl be fifty
miles or it might be a hundredinIt was
irealya hundred, sas itlturned ont, for
found him at Rheims, and lost another
thirty miles by wandering.r sts ~
You bore the dispatches from Bazaine
ITO Mach ahon, them" '1a y al. ."-.,
Il did, and / had al IMP uni, ptileasant time
of it. Ny first horse was killed; my sec-,
ond was drowned; ! was myself wounded
slightly in the leg and in the arm with
one thing and another Twas three
| days on the road, ! reached Mac Mahon's
camp on the twenty-second pretty tired
Il handed in my dispatches. Napoleon
and the marshal were in the room to-
gether,g 'MacMahon questioned me. The
dispatch said that Bszaine' meant to
break through the investing armies I'M
der Prince Frederick and Albert Of Sax,
ony and gain Chalons, by a northern
route. said that i did not believe he
would, succeed. The enemy Were. too
strong and were constantly re enforced,
Napoleon listened and kept his eyes on
me. What should we do, then, Mr.. de
Lisle?' he asked me. March to save
Paris al, oncei' said, Napoleon glanced
at MacMahon, aud nodded, But, as, !
earned later, tire. minister of, war in
Paris had sent orders to move on Metz;
Ma1Mahon hesitated; Napoleon who
was i'll, would not decide, and in the.
end, as no donbt you ,remembei, made
moiselle, we set out for the Meuse. 1t
was, when that order was given that
France was defeated. u Sedan was merely
me corollary. e
And were you at Sedan also?'
Y YES; saw the end. When Mac Mahon
got his wound itfwas still early in the
morning;rhe gave his command to Duo
rot, who was in his right senses, and
perceived that our only hope was to
\ break through to1the westward and gain
EMezieres. But the French were doomed
De impffen, who had been appointed
MaoMahou's contingent successor by orr
Eielsfto,n Paris, was marlborough to not
F0Elye0unterIhand Ducrot's orders, but
TO lji'Abare to pierce the enemys lines to
the 9 ffsstwari atid iiihrch for Metz! You
may imagine. s,maderhoiselle,' the con.
fusion. 1t soon became. CONSERVATION,
and. with some, panic. Meanwhile the
Germans encircled us; from the sur
rounding hills their c;tnnoIi played on
us. convetging. We could do nothing;
what we could we tried. In the morn
ing had, at Napoleon's request, beaded
our line at Daigny, and held it for two
hours, and later, when Douay at last
gave way before the Fifth and Eleventh
corps at Floring and we were all being
driven in upon our center, / Joined in
the charges of our Seventh cavalry, and
believe it was there that I won the
cross. 7At,.any rate, + was pretty badly
hurt there, and late in the. afternoon,
while lay inside, the fortress, listening
80 the cannon and wondering if any one
would be left alive by morning, the en-
peror came in.
''ffel6oked as if chad been wounded
to death himself; and 50 he had, though
not by sword or, bullet. His heart and
d. l. y, ~,