"A general!"
"What general?"
"General Dubourg.... Do you know the person?"
"Not from Adam or Eve! Is he in uniform?"
"Yes."
"A uniform will go down well! Hurrah for General Dubourg! We will put him in a back room and show him off when occasion offers."
General Dubourg entered to the shouts of "Vive le general Dubourg!"
They took him to the back room Baude pointed out, and when he was there—
"What do you wish, General?" they asked him.
"A bit of bread and a chamber-pot," replied the general. "I am dying of hunger, and desire to make water!"