Arm and equip the best men.

There is a small supply at Nogent, I am told.

The others must wait." "If we could only get at these pigs of Prussians, these dogs of Russians," said Ney, "we could take food and guns and powder from them." "Doubtless," said Berthier, not caring to argue that point.
He bowed to the officers, as they saluted, and went out of the door muttering and arguing noisily and insubordinately, it must be admitted, and then turned to the table where the secretaries sat.

One of them had laid his head down on his arms, stretched out on the table and was fast asleep.

The marshal awoke him and dismissed him with most of the rest.