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black stripes on his trousers enclosing the thin one, and the 3 stars on the sleeves of his blue uniforms; and with his black leggins [[sic]] and shoes; and with gesticulating hands and arms, and a furrowed face with thinning dark hair atop and a bristly grey and black moustach a-middle -- was still more affable. He went on to explain that his family was one of merchants, but that in 1870 they suffered under the German invasion. He himself received a cuff that made him an eternal Bosche hater, So the whole male end of the family went into the army with the saving of France, when the time came, the end in view.
Mon General had an audience with the unfortunate Tzar Nicholai in 1912 and disucssed with the