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In the melancholy phantasm passing before his mind's eye, of a period of unprecedented bloodshed and savagery, when on the one side Chouans, Vendéens, and such guerillas of which Madame de Savenaye was the moving spirit, and on the other the colonnes infernales of the revolutionary leaders, vied with each other in ferocity and cunning, she stood ever foremost, ever the central point of thought, with a vividness that almost a score of years had failed to dim.
My scouts managed this very well. "'He is coming, they would say, 'after to-morrow. "'Madre de Dios! "'I hope he won't burn the village. "'Questos infernales Ingleses! how wicked they are. "'You'd better try what a sack of moidores or doubloons might do with him; he may refuse them, but make the effort.
For many weeks with a few hundred followers he held the fields in the Marais, but he was at last hemmed in and captured by one of the monster Thureau's Colonnes Infernales, those hellish legions with an account of whose deeds, so says this gallant gentleman our friend, 'I will not defile my pen, but whose boasts are like those of Attila the Hun, and who in their malice have invented obscene tortures worthy of Iroquois savages for all who fall into their clutches, be they men, women, or children.... But, by Heaven's mercy, dear Madame, says M. de Puisaye to me, 'your noble husband was too weak to afford sport to those demons, and so he has escaped torment.
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