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Rh "Ah, true!" said Debray, "you did fight some time ago;—about what?"

"The devil take me, if I remember!" returned Chateau-Renaud. "But I recollect perfectly one thing; that, being unwilling to let such talents

as mine sleep, I wished to try upon the Arabs the new pistols that had been given to me. In consequence I embarked for Oran, and went from thence to Constantine, where I arrived just in time to witness the raising of the siege. I retreated with the rest, during eight-and-forty hours.