“Ce n’est rien! that’s nothing at all.”
“I have sometimes had an affair with the ladies.”
“Oh, pour cela, ce n’est rien—ce n’est rien! All in the way of your profession. Did you ever kill a priest?”
“No!—I—a—a—don’t think I ever killed one.”
“Very well—very well! Did you ever assault a nun?”
“O never,—no necessity! Always found the nuns very agreeable women.”
“You never robbed a church, Colonel?”
“We melted down the golden candlesticks, and removed a few of the pictures; but this was by our General’s orders.”
“You did not rob anybody?”
“Never—except the Spaniards and Portuguese.—O—yes, we did a little amongst the Prussians.”