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"Do you assert," exclaimed the president, "that at the time when you denounced Trudaine, you knew him to be intriguing to aid your mother's escape?" "I assert it," answered Danville. The pen which the president held dropped from his hand at that reply; his colleagues started, and looked at each other in blank silence.
Danville had been astonished at the acceptance of his proffered services; he was still more amazed when he found that the post selected for him was one of the superintendent's places in that very office of Secret Police in which Lomaque was employed as agent. Robespierre and his colleagues had taken the measure of their man he had money enough, and local importance enough to be worth studying.
The sight of this document reassured Madame Danville. She bade her son farewell, and departed at last, with one trusty servant, for Marseilles. Danville's intention, in sending his letter to Paris, had been simply to save himself by patriotic bluster.
And flying on the March winds over the mountains the seed fell on the black soil of Kentucky: Lexington had its Jacobin society, Danville and Louisville likewise their patrons and protectors of the Rights of Mankind. Federalists were not guillotined in Kentucky in the summer of 1793, but I might mention more than one who was shot.
General Toombs repaired to his home in Washington and, on the 4th of May, 1865, Jefferson Davis, his Cabinet and staff, having retreated from Richmond to Danville, thence to Greensboro, N. C., and Abbeville, S. C., rode across the country with an armed escort to Washington, Ga. Here, in the old Heard House, the last meeting of the Confederate Cabinet was held.
The convention at Danville discussed the question whether it were not safer for them to anticipate the Indians, and immediately to send an army for the destruction of their towns and crops north of the Ohio.
"I forbid you to sit down in his house," said Danville, advancing still; "I order you to come back with me! Do you hear? I order you." He was approaching nearer to her, when he caught Trudaine's eye fixed on him, and stopped. Rose started up, and placed herself between them. "Oh, Charles, Charles!" she said to her husband, "be friends with Louis to-night, and be kind again to me.
Governor Smith of Virginia had left Richmond with the Confederate States government, and had gone to Danville.
My cavalry was at Burkesville yesterday, and six miles beyond, on the Danville Road, last night. General Lee is at Amelia Court House in person. They are out of rations, or nearly so. They were advancing up the railroad towards Burkesville yesterday, when we intercepted them at this point." It now became a life and death struggle with Lee to get south to his provisions.
Before the answer could be given the door leading into the drawing-room from the staircase was violently flung open, and Madame Danville her hair in disorder, her face in its colorless terror looking like the very counterpart of her son's appeared on the threshold, with the old man Dubois and a group of amazed and startled servants behind her.
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