Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . a diimmes Zeug,and straightway went inside to break-fast. He was so kind as to ask me to ac-company him; but in those days — alasthat they are so old!—I was fonder of thesociety of buoyant young subalterns thanof general officers of a saturnine tempera-ment. And in Gonesse, notwithstandingthat it was within range of the Frenchforts, the Prussian Guardsmen had estab-lished a casino, or officers club, wherea French couple cooked dainty little platsto the marvel, and where the Bavarianbeer was as good as the French red th
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . a diimmes Zeug,and straightway went inside to break-fast. He was so kind as to ask me to ac-company him; but in those days — alasthat they are so old!—I was fonder of thesociety of buoyant young subalterns thanof general officers of a saturnine tempera-ment. And in Gonesse, notwithstandingthat it was within range of the Frenchforts, the Prussian Guardsmen had estab-lished a casino, or officers club, wherea French couple cooked dainty little platsto the marvel, and where the Bavarianbeer was as good as the French red the Gonesse casino you could have adejeuner d la fourchette not much infe-rior to Durand form, and at about one-fourth the cost, for the German Guards-man is not a wealthy man, and the tarittwas fixed to suit a modest purse. My way from Gonesse—I was boundfor the Saxon battalion which Major VonSclionberg commanded, which I knew waslying somew^here in front of Clichj—wassouthward through the wrecked villages CHRISTMAS-TIDE WITH THE GERMANS BEFORE PARIS. 271. SCHCXfANN ! BAWLED THE STAFF SERGEANT. of Aulnay and Sevran, to where GeneralVon Montbe had his quarters in the pret-ty chateau of Clichy, There I learnedthat the Von Sclionbergs were well out tothe front, on the confines of that beauti-ful ancient chase the oUl park of Raincy,an outlying- part of the historic forest ofBoiidy. An orderly went forward withme to show me the villa in which the ma-jor had his residence. Here, it is true, Ifound him, but the arrangements for theChristmas festivities, which were to havebeen celebrated in the said villa, had beenthrown into dislocation by an order forhis battalion to relieve another on the fore-post line opposite the strong French posi-tion of Bondy; w^liereas the expectationhad been that it would have been left un-til the morrow in its present position ofsupport. However, orders had to be obey-ed, and the good major hoped in his cheeryway that although, if the piano could be
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