The Erckmann-Chatrian Megapack: 20 Classic Novels And Short Stories - Plot & Excerpts
Compared with that, the life of a soldier, with his pleasant mess and good bread, regular rations, the neat warm uniform, the stout linen shirts, seemed to him delightful. He had never dreamed that he could be so comfortable, and his strongest desire was to let his two younger brothers, Gaspard and Jacob, know how delighted he was, in order that they might enlist as soon as they were old enough.“Yes,” said I, “that is all very well,—but the English and Prussians,—you do not think of that.”“I despise them,” said he, “my sabre cuts like a butcher’s knife, and my bayonet is sharp as a needle. It is they who should be afraid to encounter me.”We were the best friends in the world, and I liked him almost as well as my old comrades Klipfel, Furst, and Zébédé. And he liked me too. I believe he would have let himself be cut to pieces to save me from danger. Old comrades and bed-fellows never forget each other. In my time, old Harwig whom I knew in Pfalzbourg, always received a pension from his old comrade Bernadotte, King of Sweden.
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