The Marshal my son", began the father not without emotion "there are many things that he cannot understand. I thank my God that I retired to this solitude more than ten years ago for were I still in office my conscience would compel me to resign it now and that perhaps would be still more incomprehensible to these two valiant gentlemen. I neither envy nor admire their patriotism and God preserve our family from the fate of rendering such services to the king.
