The Conscript

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Erckmann-Chatrian. The Conscript

The Conscript

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THE STORY OF A CONSCRIPT

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The dragoon fell heavily

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"Close up the ranks!"

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Everything gave way before him

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In the river the dead were floating by in files

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"Halt! Stop!"

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Erckmann-Chatrian

A Story of the French war of 1813

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"Never mind, cripple, never mind! Your reckoning is coming all the same; the conscription is coming—the grand conscription of the one-eyed, the lame, and the hunch-backed. You will have to go, and you will find a place under ground like the others."

He continued his way, laughing like the sot he was, and I, scarcely able to breathe, kept on, thanking Heaven that the little alley was so near; for Pinacle, who was known always to draw his knife in a fight, might have done me an ill turn.

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