“And the senior lieutenant?”
“This gentleman here, who arrived yesterday,” said the sergeant, in a perfectly calm tone.
The colonel smiled bitterly.
“Come, sir,” he said to me, “you are now in chief command; promptly fortify the entrance of the redoubt with these wagons, for the enemy is in force; but General C—— will see that you are sustained.”
“Colonel,” I said to him, “you are severely wounded?”
“Pish, my dear fellow, but the redoubt is taken!”
FOOTNOTES:
[12] Latin: not twice in the same (place).
[13] In rank.