There only remained as chief, Laurier, the Impassive (as his comrades nicknamed him), and aided by the few artillerymen still on their feet, he continued firing under a rain of iron and fire, so as to cover the retreat of a battalion.
"He has been mentioned twice in dispatches," Marguerite continued reading.

"I do not believe that it will be long before they give him the cross.

He is valiant in every way.

Who would have supposed all this a few weeks ago ?".

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