Chantons, soldat, comme officier:
Moi,
Jarnigoi!
Je suis soldat du Roi.
J’m’en pique, j’m’en flatte et j’m’en vante.”
“That’s a very pretty song,” murmured the Baronne, with half-closed eyes.
“Yes,” said Jambe-d’Argent, shaking back his rough mane, “it’s called Cadet-Buteux enrégimenté, ou le Soldat du Roi. It’s a little masterpiece. It was a bright idea of mine to unearth some of these old Royalist songs of the Restoration.
“Moi,
Jarnigoi!
Je suis soldat du Roi.”