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If General Hatry is victorious, he can walk over our bodies and tranquilly enter Vannes; if he is defeated, he cannot say it is by numbers. Go, Monsieur de Montrevel, and remain with your friends. I give them thus the advantage of numbers, for you alone are worth ten men." Roland raised his hat. "What are you doing, sir?" demanded Cadoudal.
Morbihan was occupied by numerous bands of Chouans, who formed a formidable association, the principal leader of which was George Cadoudal. Without entering on a campaign, they were mastering the country. Hoche directed all his force and activity against them, and before long had destroyed or exhausted them. Most of their leaders quitted their arms, and took refuge in England.
"What do you say, gentlemen?" asked Morgan, "Shall we do citizen Fouche the honor to worry about his police? Shall we leave France? Or shall we still remain faithful Companions of Jehu?" There was but one reply "We stay." "Right!" said Morgan. "Brothers, I recognize you there. Cadoudal points out our duty in that admirable letter we have just received.
M. Real had been at the Conciergerie, where he had seen Georges Cadoudal, and on his entrance observed to M. Desmarets and the others, sufficiently loud to be distinctly heard by M. Carbonnet and myself, "I have had an interview with Georges who is an extraordinary man.
He stopped before the door of the cottage in which Georges was sitting. The latter raised his head, listened, and, by way of precaution, laid his hands on his pistols, though it was probable that the new-comer was a friend. The rider dismounted, strode up the path, and opened the door of the room where Georges was waiting. "Ah! it's you, Coeur-de-Roi," said Cadoudal. "Where do you come from?"
"Stand up!" said the Chouan. The priest tried to obey, but his strength failed him, and he fell again to his knees. "Will yon let that murder be done before your eyes?" Roland asked Cadoudal. "I said that I washed my hands of it," replied the latter. "Pilate said that, and Pilate's hands are to this day red with the blood of Jesus Christ."
But he forgot that at the present there are two Vendees the Vendee of the left bank, and the Vendee of the right bank and that, after treating with d'Autichamp, Chatillon, and Suzannet at Pouance, it would still be necessary to negotiate with Frotte, Bourmont and Cadoudal and where? That no one could tell " "Except you, general."
For a few seconds the crackling of twigs on the bushes, and the sound of steps among the underbrush, was heard. Then all was silent. "Well," asked Cadoudal, "do you think that with such men I have anything to fear from the Blues, brave as they may be?" Roland heaved a sigh; he was of Cadoudal's opinion. They rode on.
When, during the first period of our abode at the Tuileries, he had summoned the principal chiefs of, La Vendee to endeavour to bring about the pacification of that unhappy country; he received Georges Cadoudal in a private audience. The disposition in which I beheld him the evening before the day appointed for this audience inspired me with the most flattering hopes.
Excepting Moreau, who I am certain was an entire stranger to the conspiracy, it was the royalist loyalty that alone was on its defence against the new power. This cause of the ancient monarchy had as its head a man of the people, Georges Cadoudal. "That fearless Georges!
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