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"Because there you will be near the men for whom you have fought." "And then?" "Then, when you have seen them " "What?" "You will compare them with those against whom you have fought. But, once out of France, colonel " Bonaparte paused. "I am waiting," said Cadoudal. "Do not return without warning me, or, if you do, do not be surprised if I treat you as an enemy."
Two assistants of Georges Cadoudal, Limoelan and St. Rejant, who had formerly taken part in the civil wars, entered into partnership with a man of the lower orders named Carbon, who bought them the cart, the horse, and powder. He was found concealed in Paris; Limoelan had fled abroad. St.
She laughed, and as Father Goulden and I listened to hear her plan, she continued: "Just now while I was at the town-hall, Sergeant Harmantier announced that we were to have a grand mass for the repose of the souls of Louis XVI., Pichegru, Moreau, and another one." "Yes," interrupted Father Goulden, "for George Cadoudal, I read it last evening in the gazette."
"Don't you think," asked Cadoudal, laughing, "that it might be as well, in any case, to ask him?" "True," said Roland. "Well, colonel, be so good as to mount your horse, make yourself known to him, and deliver my proposal." "Very well," replied Roland. "The colonel's horse," said Cadoudal, motioning to the Chouan who was watching it. The man led it up.
General Hatry rallied a score of men, and, with bayonets down, they fell upon the circle that enveloped them. He marched at the head of his soldiers on foot; his horse had been killed. Ten men had fallen before the circle was broken, but at last he was beyond it. The Chouans wanted to pursue them, but Cadoudal, in a voice of thunder, called them back.
When Phélippeaux was questioned, during the trial of Georges Cadoudal, about Moisson's father, who had disappeared, he replied that he lived in the street and island of Saint-Louis near the new bridge; that he was an engraver and manager of a button factory; that Mme. Moisson had a servant named R. Petit-Jean, married to a municipal guard.
Pichegru is in prison, George Cadoudal awaits his trial, the Duc d'Enghien sleeps in his bloody grave; the imperial crown is prepared for the great soldier, and the great soldier's creatures bask in the noonday sun. Olivier Dalibard is in high and lucrative employment; his rise is ascribed to his talents, his opinions.
Many years have elapsed since the executions of Perrine, Rene and Pierre, and the death of Jean; and the martyrdom of the sisters, the exploits of the brothers have passed into legends. We have now to do with their successors. As they fought beside la Rouerie, Bois-Hardy and Bernard de Villeneuve, so did they fight beside Bourmont, Frotte, and Georges Cadoudal.
"Yes, but you and your men?" "Ah, faith! In God's care; we are defending his cause, it is for him to take care of us." "Well, you see, colonel," said Cadoudal, "how easy it all is. Let us mount, colonel! Good luck, Coeur-de-Roi!" "Which of these two horses am I to take?" asked Roland. "Either; one is as good as the other; each has an excellent pair of English pistols in its holsters." "Loaded?"
The Duke de Berri himself, it was added, had been prepared to land on the west coast of France, whenever Pichegru or Cadoudal should inform him that the time was come; while another of the royal exiles lay watching the event, and in readiness to profit by it, on the other side, immediately behind the Rhine.
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