The Forty-Five Guardsmen

n comparing the half card with another

the bare head

e?" said

on th

nd; tell

lled Perducas

ignac read. "Perducas de Pincornay, 26 Octobe

," said he, "enter. Now for

h the cuira

d?" said

e son of your old friend, whom you have

eplied the young man, with astoni

ce, I know no one.

All right! pass,"

n plunged his hand into a little goatskin pouch which he wore, but in vain;

ou doing with that ch

y son, m

wn. You are married, t

twen

ought to know that, M. de Loigna

ignac, "here is ano

eur, he is married, and here are two other children who call him father, b

and agile, with an incipien

wife's sons

e, your card!" c

e Gascon to his wife

kets of her husband, but uselessly.

I arre

"I am Eustache de Miradoux, and

little mollified at this

pockets again, and be

, on the sleeve of that b

ather. "I remember, now

something, I suppose,

all right, and the family passe

his name as Chalabre. It was fo

rse and presented his card, while the page hi

ngs to you?" a

is attending

s, t

master," sa

ar to the porter's lodge, which had two windows, one looking toward Paris and the other into the country. From thi

re do you

Porte St

umber?"

car

they

d announced six. Then came four others. The first from the Porte St. Denis, with the number five; the next from the Porte St. Jacques, with the number three; the third from the Porte St. Honore, with the number eight; and the fourth from the

ow open the gates,

women, and children, pressed into Paris, at the risk of suffocatin

would it be very advantageous to me to see M. Salcede torn in four piece