“Meine besten complimente der Frau Hauptmannin!” said Henri to him, in leaving him on the boulevard.
“Lieber Gott! I shall take good care not to own to her that I dined with you.”
“And why, pray?”
“Because there is one thing for which she never will forgive you.”
“What is that?”
“The fact that you were the cause of her living alone for six months!”
CHAPTER XXIII. THE MILITARY REVIEW
The different troops, assembled for review, were massed on the parade-ground at Vincennes, facing the tribunes.
In the centre, the artillery brigade, surrounded by two divisions of infantry, was drawn up in two straight columns, connected by regiments; each division of infantry, in double columns, was connected by brigades.