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Have I ever told you, my friends, the circumstances connected with my / joining the Hussars of Conflans at the time of the siege of Saragossa / and the very remarkable exploit which I performed in connection with the / taking of that city? No? Then you have indeed something still to learn. / I will tell it to you exactly as it occurred. Save for two or three men / and a score or two of women, you are the first who have ever heard the / story.
You must know, then, that it was in the Second Hussars -- called the / Hussars of Chamberan -- that I had served as a lieutenant and as a junior / captain. At the time I speak of I was only twenty-five years of age, as / reckless and desperate a man as any in that great army.