Hortense

emotion. All the officers were in full uniform. I had put on the uniform of the artillery and the hat of a major-general.

\"The night seemed to us very long. I spent it in writing my proclamations, which I had not been willing to have printed in advance for fear of some indiscretion. It was decided that we should remain in that house until the colonel should notify me to proceed to the barracks. We counted the hours,


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emotion. All the officers were in full uniform. I had put on the uniform of the artillery and the hat of a major-general.

\"The night seemed to us very long. I spent it in writing my proclamations, which I had not been willing to have printed in advance for fear of some indiscretion. It was decided that we should remain in that house until the colonel should notify me to proceed to the barracks. We counted the hours,


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