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She touched briefly on her confidential intimacy with Madame Marigny, the exchange of name and papers, her confinement in the neighbourhood of Aix, the child left to the care of the nurse, the journey to Munich to find the false Louise Duval was no more.
I suffered my wife to go into the house, and passed myself into the orange grove to receive the stranger. I had no acquaintance with any one at Aix, and was utterly ignorant of the motive which could have induced my visitor to wait so long and so patiently for me. "When I went into the orange grove, I saw a woman still youthful, of about thirty-six or forty years of age.
At Marseilles, Aix and other towns many Jacobins were killed, and so grave did the situation appear that on the 10th the Committee of Public Safety was given enlarged powers, and throwing itself back, relaxed its severity against the Jacobins.
Massena, I heard, had sent for some troops from Toulon; and the 3000 national guards employ themselves night and day, in shouting Vive le Roi. We shall leave Aix to-morrow morning, taking the route to Bourdeaux. Friday, the 17th of April. Our leaving Aix this morning was really melancholy. French friends, hearing of our approaching departure, flocked in to bid us farewell.
To him who had so often seen the terrible reverse, these things were beautiful indeed; and they brought him in a softened spirit to the old chateau near Aix upon a deep blue evening. It was a large chateau of the genuine old ghostly kind, with round towers, and extinguishers, and a high leaden roof, and more windows than Aladdin's Palace.
She has a town house, but does not see company, but she might surely see me: She loves me still. She cared for me all through my illness, and she would not have done so if she had become indifferent to me. She will be hurt at my not recognizing her. She must know that I have left Aix, and will no doubt guess that I am here now. Shall I go to her or shall I write?
I answered that in that case I would dine at Aix, but that I counted on his getting me horses by two o'clock in the afternoon. I left the room and went to the stable, where I found the coachman weeping over one of his horses stretched out on the straw.
This was the case last summer, when General Dessolles's brother was transferred from the Bishopric of Digne to that of Chambry, and Bonaparte nominated for his successor the brother of General Miollis, who was a curate of Brignoles, in the diocese of Aix.
The prelate who presided was the same Archbishop of Aix who had preached the coronation sermon of Louis XVI. It was not easy, however, to procure the attendance of some of the revolutionary generals of the true republican race.
It had a vast cemetery outside its walls, crammed with memorials of the dead of all ages; and as the curators of the museums of Paris, Marseilles, Avignon, Aix, &c., thirsted after sarcophagi, the mournful Arelois went to their necropolis, dug up as many as were wanted, and forwarded coffins to those who had made requisition for them.
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