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MY UNCLE ROLAND'S TALE.
"It was in Spain -- no matter where or how -- that it was my fortune to take prisoner a French officer of the same rank that I then held, -- a lieutenant; and there was so much similarity in our sentiments that we became intimate friends, -- the most intimate friend I ever had, sister, out of this dear circle. He was a rough soldier, whom the world had not well treated; but he never railed at the world, and maintained that he had had his deserts. Honor was his idol, and the sense of honor paid him for the loss of all else.