"A quarrelsome fellow—"
"General!"
"Whom I caught fighting a duel with a brave Republican at Milan."
"He was one of his friends, general. Friends may fight."
"And whom I sent to the guard-house for forty-eight hours."
"Twenty-four, general."
"Then I cheated him out of the other twenty-four."
"He is ready to take them, general."
"A sub-lieutenant is not sent to the guard-house; he is put under arrest."
"General, Pierre-Claude Faraud is not a sub-lieutenant, he is only a sergeant-major."