... going down stairs, after having spent an evening with Walsingham, a boy of twelve years old, the son of the master of the lodging-house, equipped in a military uniform, stood across the landing-place, as if determined to, stop him. 'Mon petit militaire,' said the commandant, 'do you mean to dispute my passage?' 'Non, mon general,' said the boy; 'I know my duty too well. But ... — Tales and Novels, Vol. V - Tales of a Fashionable Life • Maria Edgeworth
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