Reminiscences of An Officer of Zouaves
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Then, drawing the colonel aside, he informed him, that the cellars were full of wine, and he hoped that the Zouaves would be allowed to make themsSives amends, for the forced abstinence to which they had no doubt been condemned, ever since their landing in the Crimea.
This discovery, though in most respects a very for- tunate one, was productive of some uneasiness in the colonel's mind. For, however well assured he might feel of the obedience of his Zouaves, he could hardly venture, yet, to bel...ieve them so virtuous as, in his ab- sence, to resist the temptations, likely to besiege them, — during a whole night, spent in close proximity to full casks of that seductive juice of the grape, for which the soldiers of all nations entertain such a decided par- tiality. He, therefore, assembled the detachment, which was to momit guard over the house, that nighty and placing it under the command of Captain Blanchet, an energetic and most determined officer, he warned the 196 THE CEIMEA.
men, that he had reason to suspect a snare of some kind, in the show of confidence with which the house and its cellars had been given over to him, and that, it was not unlikely that the Eussians, — who doubtless had heard of their great fondness for wine, — counted on their getting drunk, in the course of the night, and meant to fall upon them, while in that condition.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Then, drawing the colonel aside, he informed him, that the cellars were full of wine, and he hoped that the Zouaves would be allowed to make themsSives amends, for the forced abstinence to which they had no doubt been condemned, ever since their landing in the Crimea.
This discovery, though in most respects a very for- tunate one, was productive of some uneasiness in the colonel's mind. For, however well assured he might feel of the obedience of his Zouaves, he could hardly venture, yet, to bel...ieve them so virtuous as, in his ab- sence, to resist the temptations, likely to besiege them, — during a whole night, spent in close proximity to full casks of that seductive juice of the grape, for which the soldiers of all nations entertain such a decided par- tiality. He, therefore, assembled the detachment, which was to momit guard over the house, that nighty and placing it under the command of Captain Blanchet, an energetic and most determined officer, he warned the 196 THE CEIMEA.
men, that he had reason to suspect a snare of some kind, in the show of confidence with which the house and its cellars had been given over to him, and that, it was not unlikely that the Eussians, — who doubtless had heard of their great fondness for wine, — counted on their getting drunk, in the course of the night, and meant to fall upon them, while in that condition.
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