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You have to understande, that to purpose that a pece of ordinaunce hurte you not, it is necessarie either to stande where it cannot reche you, or to get behinde a wall, or behinde a banke: other thing there is not that can witholde it: and it is nedefull also, that the one and the other be moste strong.
He divined only too well the terrible apprehensions of his wife. "We have nothing to fear," he replied, quickly; "I heard Marie-Anne promise to meet Maurice to-morrow in the grove on the Reche." The anxious mother breathed more freely.
"I must go and take possession of my cottage," he remarked to Chanlouineau; "you will accompany me; I have a proposition to make to you." M. and Mme. d'Escorval endeavored to detain him, but he would not allow himself to be persuaded, and he departed with his daughter. But Maurice did not despair; Marie-Anne had promised to meet him the following day in the pine-grove near the Reche.
A strange sight met their eyes as they emerged from the grove on the Reche. Night was falling, but it was still light enough for them to distinguish objects only a short distance from them. Before Lacheneur's house stood a group of about a dozen persons, and M. Lacheneur was speaking and gesticulating excitedly. What was he saying?
They thought they had arrived in time. Alas! here, as on the Reche, all their efforts, all their entreaties, and all their threats were futile. They had come in the hope of arresting the movement; they only precipitated it. "We have gone too far to draw back," exclaimed one of the neighboring farmers, who was the recognized leader in Lacheneur's absence.
All day long he hurried from hamlet to hamlet, and in the evening, as soon as dinner was over, he made his escape from the drawing-room, sprang into his boat, and hastened to the Reche. M. d'Escorval could not fail to remark the long and frequent absences of his son. He watched him, and soon became absolutely certain that Lacheneur had, to use the baron's own expression, seduced him.
She did not doubt the reports which had reached her ears, of Martial's frequent visits to Marie-Anne, but she wished to see for herself. So, as soon as she left her father, she obliged Aunt Medea to dress herself, and without vouchsafing a single word of explanation, took her with her to the Reche, and stationed herself where she could command a view of M. Lacheneur's house.
Time gradually heals all wounds, and in less than a year it was difficult to discern any trace of the fierce whirlwind of passion which had devastated the peaceful valley of the Oiselle. What remained to attest the reality of all these events, which, though they were so recent, had already been relegated to the domain of the legendary? A charred ruin on the Reche.
By a violent effort he recovered his self-possession, and in calmer tones he added: "And if you are so desirous of seeing Maurice, be at the Reche to-morrow at mid-day. He will be there." Having said this, he turned abruptly aside, sprang over the fence skirting the avenue, and disappeared in the darkness. "Jean," cried Martial, in almost supplicating tones; "Jean, come back listen to me!"
I wil give you a little of a late ensample. There wer come out of Cicelie, into the kyngdome of Naples, a power of Spaniardes, for to go to finde Consalvo, who was besieged in Barlet, of the Frenchemen: there made against theim Mounsier de Vhigni, with his menne of armes, and with aboute fower thousande Duchemen on foote: The Duchemen incountered with their Pikes lowe, and thei opened the power of the Spaniardes: but those beyng holp, by meane of their bucklers and of the agiletie of their bodies, mingled togethers with the Duchemen, so that thei might reche them with the swearde, whereby happened the death, almoste of all theim, and the victorie to the Spaniardes.
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