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"'By the diligence, the "Aigle noir," said I, giving the name with some pride, that I was not altogether ignorant of the conveyance.
Ronald and his party then remounted their horses the robbers had already overtaken and caught those of the fallen assailants the driver mounted the box, and after a cordial farewell to their rescuers the party proceeded on their way to Blois. It was late at night before Blois was reached, and having alighted at the Aigle d'Or they engaged a private room.
The Spaniards made 120 prisoners on the two ships. As for the other vessels in their company the yacht 'Aigle' was blown up; the 'Paon' and the shallop 'Delft' escaped. It is not exactly known whither these vessels have gone; but it is believed that they went to Patan." With the increase of Dutch power in the Indias, complications naturally multiplied.
An extremely critical point in the homeward voyage was the first hundred miles west of Gibraltar; and it was a greater thorn in Nelson's side, because of a French seventy-four, the "Aigle," which had succeeded in entering Cadiz just after he got off Toulon. For the ordinary policing of that locality he assigned a division of three frigates, under a Captain Gore, who possessed his confidence.
If I had been a yapping miniature lap-dog, with teeth only pour faire rire, I could not have been treated with greater disdain by the crowd. I glanced hastily round to see if Sir Samuel had not taken alarm; but, sitting beside his wife in the big crystal cage, he seemed blissfully unconscious of danger to his splendid Aigle.
Apparently it is kept up in as much of the sentiment of the past as possible, and one may hire its baronial splendor fully furnished; for the keeper told it had been occupied by an English family for the last three winters. The finish, like that of the castle of Aigle, is rude, but the whole place is wonderfully picturesque and impressive.
This port he was not to enter, but to anchor outside, and there be joined by the "Aigle," the ship that had so long worried Nelson, and also by six or eight Spanish ships believed to be ready.
We were safe. This time it really was our world, our car, and our everything. We didn't even need to "pretend." Ste. Enemie is only at the gates of the gorge a porter's lodge, so to speak, and in the Aigle we sped on into the fairyland of which we'd had our first pale, moonlit peep last night. There were castles made by man, and castles made by gnomes; but the gnomes were the better architects.
"'By the diligence, the "Aigle noir," said I, giving the name with some pride, that I was not altogether ignorant of the conveyance.
I ought to have said that, before we left the ship, Grey and I had presented to us the two small flags we had nailed to the cross-jack yard in the action with the Aigle. At the last stage we agreed that we would do something to astonish the natives, so we ordered an open barouche, which we saw in the yard, with four horses.
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