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Time would show the result. Meantime, while the Protestant Ancel and other agents of the new league against Philip were travelling about from one court of Europe to another to gain adherents to their cause, the great founder of the confederacy was already secretly intriguing for a peace with that monarch.
Time would show the result. Meantime, while the Protestant Ancel and other agents of the new league against Philip were travelling about from one court of Europe to another to gain adherents to their cause, the great founder of the confederacy was already secretly intriguing for a peace with that monarch.
The reply to this was an order for his instant execution: the wretch died in the last days of Robespierre's reign. His comrade, St. Just, followed him, as you know; but Edward Ancel had been released before this, for the action of my brave Mary had created a strong feeling in his favor. "And Mary?" said I.
"Why," said my sentimental friend Gregoire, "for the matter of that, I can answer that the lad was always talking about this young woman: he told me the whole story himself, and many a good laugh I had with citizen Schneider as we talked about it." "The charge against Edward Ancel must be examined into," said St. Just. "The marriage cannot take place.
Just's private apartment opened, and he took his seat at the table of mayoralty just as Schneider and his cortege arrived before it. Schneider then said that he came in before the authorities of the Republic to espouse the citoyenne Marie Ancel. "Is she a minor?" asked St. Just. "She is a minor, but her father is here to give her away."
But if I had ratified it, Mary Ancel, what then would have been your course?" Mary felt for a moment in her bosom, and said "He would have died to-night I would have stabbed him with this dagger."* * This reply, and, indeed, the whole of the story, is historical. An account, by Charles Nodier, in the Revue de Paris, suggested it to the writer.
Tell us, sir, what is the price of our safety?" Schneider smiled, and bowed with perfect politeness. "Mademoiselle Marie," he said, "is perfectly correct in her surmise. I do not want the life of this poor drivelling old man: my intentions are much more peaceable, be assured. I humbly offer myself, citizen Ancel, as a candidate for the hand of your charming daughter.
"The girl amazes me," said Schneider, with a look of astonishment. "I never saw her, it is true, till yesterday; but I used no force: her father gave her to me with his free consent, and she yielded as gladly. Speak, Edward Ancel, was it not so?" "It was, indeed, by my free consent," said Edward, trembling. "For shame, brother!" cried old Jacob.
In our poor village my uncle's church was closed, and he, himself, an inmate in my brother's house, only owing his safety to his great popularity among his former flock, and the influence of Edward Ancel.
"You hear him," said Schneider; "Marie Ancel, you may decide the fate of your father. I shall return in a few hours," concluded he, "and will then beg to know your decision." The advocate of the rights of man then left the apartment, and left the family, as you may imagine, in no very pleasant mood.
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