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By degrees it all came back to me; the Admiral's message, De Courcy's wild charge, the terrible conflict, the flight of the royalists, and then ! I had a strange half-consciousness of having been raised from the ground and carried some distance, but of what had really happened I had no definite knowledge. But how came Jacques into the picture? Surely he was not at Roche Abeille!
At length the Council broke up, and, though nothing was actually disclosed, we soon became aware that Coligny had resolved on risking a battle. "Bravo!" said Felix, as we went to our tent, "'twill be a pity if Roche Abeille does not make up for Jarnac!" The bugle-call roused us at daybreak, and after a hasty breakfast we prepared for the fray.
The curse fell on him: however closely his parents watched him, pots and pans showered into his cradle, the narrator himself saw a miscellaneous collection of household furniture mysteriously amassed there. The Abeille of Chartres held this letter over, till two of its reporters had visited the scene of action, and interviewed doctors, priests, and farmers, who all attested the facts.
"Let us commend our souls to God, gentlemen," he said reverently, "and beseech Him to strengthen our hearts in the approaching encounter." It may have been pure fancy on my part, but as we rode along the lines I seemed to miss that air of cheerful confidence which had been so evident at Roche Abeille.
Sunk deeper in the water was the broad-backed Abeille, significantly named "La Pétroleuse," the heroine of four explosions, no favourite with either crews or commanders; and, cradled in a low dock on the farther strip of beach, was stretched the Triton, looking like a huge fish which had panted itself to death.
"Then a good many of us are spending our last evening on earth," observed Roger calmly. "We must take our chance," said Felix; "every battle levies its toll; but I can see no more danger here than at Roche Abeille. Do you think our fellows have lost heart?" "Not exactly; but they are dispirited, while their opponents are full of confidence." "We beat them at Roche Abeille!"
I opened my eyes and saw him bending over me and looking eagerly into my face. "Jacques," I said, "what are you doing here?" "Nursing you, monsieur," he answered cheerfully. "I got to Rochelle just after you had started, and followed the army; but the battle was over when I reached Roche Abeille." "How did you find me?" "I went to the Admiral's gentlemen.
Louis XVIII. accepted the offer, but after the peace of Tilsit, fearing lest Alexander might imitate the second act of his father as well as the first, he plainly saw that he must give up all intention of residing on the Continent; and it was then that I read in the 'Abeille du Nord' the article before alluded to.
Coligny was eating his frugal meal, but he glanced up at our approach, and the officer said, "Edmond Le Blanc, general, who claims to belong to your household." "Le Blanc!" echoed the Admiral, knitting his brows he had doubtless forgotten me "ah, of course; you have been absent from duty a long time." "I had the misfortune to be left behind at Roche Abeille, my lord." "Ah, I remember.
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