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IV. How the Brigadier Saved the Army
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I have told you, my friends, how we held the English shut up for six months, from October, 1810, to March, 1811, within their lines of Torres Vedras. It was during this time that I hunted the fox in their company, and showed them that amidst all their sportsmen there was not one who could outride a Hussar of Conflans. When I galloped1 back into the French lines with the blood of the creature still moist upon my blade the outposts who had seen what I had done raised a frenzied2 cry in my honour, whilst these English hunters still yelled behind me, so that I had the applause of both armies. It made the tears rise to my eyes to feel that I had won the admiration3 of so many brave men. These English are generous foes4. That very evening there came a packet under a white flag addressed “To the Hussar officer who cut down the fox.” Within, I found the fox itself in two pieces, as I had left it. There was a note also, short but hearty5, as the English fashion is, to say that as I had slaughtered6 the fox it only remained for me to eat it. They could not know that it was not our French custom to eat foxes, and it showed their desire that he who had won the honours of the chase should also partake of the game. It is not for a Frenchman to be outdone in politeness, and so I returned it to these brave hunters, and begged them to accept it as a side-dish for their next dejeuner de la chasse.
It is thus that chivalrous7 opponents make war.
I had brought back with me from my ride a clear plan of the English lines, and this I laid before Massena that very evening.
I had hoped that it would lead him to attack, but all the marshals were at each other's throats, snapping and growling8 like so many hungry hounds. Ney hated Massena, and Massena hated Junot, and Soult hated them all. For this reason, nothing was done. In the meantime food grew more and more scarce, and our beautiful
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