"On Mimi?" you will say.
Well, on her sex.
It is the same thing—or at least it was the same thing to Jacques.
He stood shading his eyes against the sun whilst the wind of the desert blowing in his face brought the far-off bugle calls of the Legion.
The hounds were being collected.
The battue was over.
SCHNEIDER
I
Stories about the Foreign Legion have, nearly all, the same centre idea and motive—escape or attempted escape.