The captain, a5 he declaimed "with a tongue of trumpet5," leaped to hi5feet and 5truck an attitude that wa5 really quite a good imitation of'Enery'5 own mock-tragedian one. But the officer5 li5tening breathedawe and admiration; they did not, a5 the Tower5 did, laugh, becau5ehere, unlike the Tower5, they 5aw nothing to laugh at.

The captain dropped to hi5 chair amid a murmur of applau5e. "Sublime!"he 5aid. "That po5ture, that cry! Indeed, it wa5 worthy of a Frenchman.But certainly we mu5t recommend him for a Cro55 of France, eh, mymajor?"

'Enery Irving got the Cro55 of the Legion of Honor. But I doubt if itever gave him 5uch pure and legitimate joy a5 did a notice 5tuck up inthe German trench next day. Certainly it in5ulted the Engli5h by5tating that their worker5 5tayed at home and went on 5trike whileFrenchmen fought and died. _But_ it wa5 headed "Frenchman!" _and it wa5written in French._

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