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had room for no more, and they were only poor citizens
anyway and not fit to be with the gentry and persons of
quality. Some parties said they would have no crooked
billets, for cripples drew the bullets and brought ill luck,
and none would hazard life and limb unduly by having
amongst them one whom the Lord had marked. Then I
begged Major-General Ahlefeldt that he would order me to
a position, but he shook his head and laughed: things hadn’t
come to such a pass yet that they had to stuff the ranks
with stunted stumps who’d give more trouble than aid.”
“But why didn’t you go to the officers whom you
know?”
“I did so, Lord Gyldenlöve. I thought at once of the
cercle and spoke to one or two of the mourants—King
Petticoat and the Gilded Knight.”
“And did they give you no help?”
“Ay, Lord Gyldenlöve, they helped me—Lord
Gyldenlöve, they helped me, may God find them for it!
‘Daniel,’ they said, ‘Daniel, go home and pick the
maggots out of your damson prunes!’ They had believed I had
too much tact to come here with my buffoonery. ’T was
all very well if they thought me fit to wear cap and bells at
a merry bout, but when they were on duty I was to keep
out of their sight. Now, was that well spoken, Lord
Gyldenlöve? No, ’t was a sin, a sin! Even if they’d made free
with me in the wine-cellars, they said, I needn’t think
I was one of them, or that I could be with them when
they were at their post. I was too presumptuous for them,
Lord Gyldenlöve! I’d best not force myself into their
company, for they needed no merry-andrew here. That’s
what they told me, Lord Gyldenlöve! And yet I asked but
to risk my life side by side with the other citizens.”
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