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Chapter He Puts Himself Under The Guidance Of His Associate And Stumbles Upon The Frenchbook71 Camp Where He Finishes His Military Career. Not that he was satisfied with the sphere of life in which he acted though he knew himself consummate in the art of play he was not at all ambitious of a gamesters name nor did he find himself disposed to hazard those discoveries and explanations to which heroes of that class are sometimes necessarily exposed. The old Count who sincerely sympathised with his affliction would have persuaded him to retire into quarters where he could be carefully nursed and provided with everything necessary to a person in his condition but such was his desire of glory that he resisted his patrons importunities with great constancy till at length seeing the old gentleman obstinately determined to consult his health by removing him from the field he gradually suffered himself to recover the use of his hands made shift to sit up in his bed and amuse himself with cards or backgammon and notwithstanding the feeble condition of his legs ventured to ride out on horseback to visit the lines though the Count and his son would never yield to his solicitations so far as to let him accompany Renaldo in those excursions and reconnoitring parties by which a volunteer inures himself to toil and peril and acquires that knowledge in the operations of war which qualifies him for a command in the service.... read all

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