‘I did not tell you … For I will cause pain … You have a right to know more … I’m going to Paris to ask them to send me to another regiment.

– To another regiment? Going outside Souvigny?

Yes, indeed, leave Souvigny … for some time, for a short time, but finally, out of Souvigny, is what I want, what I need.

– What about me? John, you no longer think of me … For a short time! Soon! is what is left of my life, so little time. And during these last days I owe to the grace of God, feel you near me, was my happiness, yes, John, was my greatest happiness. And did you so? John, wait a minute, be patient, it will not take long, wait till the Lord calls me to himself, waiting to go to meet there with your father and your mother … Do not go, John, do not go.

‘If you love me, I also want … well do you know what …

Yes, I know.

-I keep for you the same affection that I had as a kid, when I picked up and brought me up. My heart has not changed, nor will ever change … But if the duty, if the honor compels me to go …

– Ah! if it is the duty, if the honor … I say nothing more, John … Everything is after that, everything, everything! You’ve always been a good judge of your duty, your honor good judge … Party, my son, part. Do not wonder no more, I want to know anything else.