Excerpt from Eugénie, Vol. 2 of 3: The Young Laundress of the BastilleThere is another set of admirable beings, to whom we should willingly grantthe privilege of walking on stilts, if they did not most unceremoniously take it themselves: we mean our great naval and military eagles. They are indeed a proud company, those admirals and generals, post-captains and colonels, but don't they deserve to lord it over us? They who have not a bone in their bodies which they have not exposed to musket-shot and cannon-ball? Let them be proud, let, let them be proud. The prouder they are, the more victories we shall obtain.Now, henceforth and for ever, avaunt the self sufficiency, the egotism of purse-proud would-be thought great folks l. Avaunt, the.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.