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`` All the same , no doubt , Major ; but where , in Heaven 's name , did you fall upon that mine of pillage you have just been talking of ? '' `` In the Emperor 's carriage , to be sure , boy . While the duke was watching all day the advance of Ney 's column and keeping an anxious look-out for the Prussians , I sat in a window in this old farm-house , and never took my eye off the garden at Planchenoit . I saw the imperial carriage there in the morning ; it was there also at noon ; and they never put the horses to it till past seven in the evening . The roads were very heavy , and the crowd was great . I judged the pace could n't be a fast one ; and with four of the Enniskilleners I charged it like a man . The Prussians , however , had the start of us ; and if they had n't thought , from my seat on horseback and my general appearance , that I was Lord Uxbridge , I should have got but a younger son 's portion .