About ten o'clock in the evening
`` Thanks ! You 're a good old boy , and a true one . There were five hundred thousand of us , of the same , same sort , in 1812 ; there are but two left ; say , rather , one and a half . '' About ten o'clock in the evening , M. Rollon , M. du Marnet and Fougas accompanied the Marshal to the cars . Fougas embraced his comrade and promised him to be of good cheer . After the train left , the three colonels went back to town on foot . In passing M. Rollon 's house , Fougas said to his successor : `` You 're not very hospitable to-night ; you do n't even offer us a pony of that good Andaye brandy ! ''