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"Where is Amos Green?" "Here, Captain Ephraim. What can I do?" "And I?" asked De Catinat eagerly. Adele and her father had been wrapped in mantles and placed for shelter in the lee of the round house. "Tell him he can take his spell at the pumps," said the Captain to Amos. "And you, Amos, you are a handy man with a tool. Get into yonder long-boat with a lantern and see if you cannot patch her up."
The wind being rather high, blew the flames away from Catinat, so that at first the fire burnt his legs only a circumstance which, the author of the History of the Camisards tells us, aroused Catinat's impatience.
"By the way, captain, you have served me in many ways of late, and always with success. I hear, Louvois, that De la Salle is dead of the small-pox." "He died yesterday, sire." "Then I desire that you make out the vacant commission of major to Monsieur de Catinat.
He did all in his power to ingratiate himself into the favour of the Marechal de Villeroy; but the Marechal received these advances very coldly. Tesse's schemes against Catinat were beginning to be scented out; he was accused of having wished the Imperialists to succeed at Capri, and of indirectly aiding them by keeping back his troops; his tirades against Catinat, too, made him suspected.
He was about to skirt this, as he had done others, when suddenly he caught De Catinat by the shoulder and pushed him down behind a clump of sumach, while Amos did the same with Ephraim Savage. A man was walking down the other side of the open space. He had just emerged, and was crossing it diagonally, making in the direction of the river.
News Sent to France. Council at Madame de Maintenon's. The King's Decision. A Public Declaration. Treatment of the New King. His Departure for Spain. Reflections. Philip V. Arrives in Spain. The Queen Dowager Banished. Marriage of Phillip V. The Queen's Journey. Rival Dishes. A Delicate Quarrel. The King's journey to Italy. The Intrigues against Catinat. Vaudemont s Success.
Edmond drew back pale and horrified. "Thou hast surely not seen much blood yet, young man?" cried Ravanel mockingly; "Thou oughtst to celebrate thy consecration to-day, and massacre some of those wretches thyself." "Not now, brother Ravanel," said Catinat, "the royal troops are stationed so near and we do not know their number, therefore we must not attract them hither by our firing.
The victory of Neerwinden ended in nothing but the capture of Charleroi; the successes of Catinat at Marsaglia, in Piedmont, had washed out the shame of the Duke of Savoy's incursion into Dauphiny in 1692. Tourville had remained with the advantage in several maritime engagements off Cape St. Vincent, and burned the English vessels in the very roads of Cadiz. On every sea the corsairs of St.
He could plan nothing against the enemy that they did not learn immediately; and he never attempted any movement without finding himself opposed by a force more than double his own; so gross was this treachery. Catinat often complained of this: he sent word of it to the Court, but without daring to draw any conclusion from what happened.
There is room for a man with a sword at his side in this establishment of yours." "But what would you do?" "I would have a word with this Captain Dalbert." "Then I have wronged you, nephew, when I said even now that you were not whole-hearted towards Israel." "I know not about Israel," cried De Catinat impatiently.
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