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"See, Madame," said the poor fugitive gently, "how can I find my way through these mountains, which I do not know, and where there are no roads where the foot-paths are scarcely discernible." With a quick movement Balstain's wife pushed Lacheneur out, and turning him as one does a blind man to set him on the right track: "Walk straight before you," said she, "always against the wind.
He felt assured that an oath like that of Balstain's, and uttered by such a man, was equivalent to a death-warrant, or at least to a speedy prospect of assassination. This thought tormented him so much that he would not allow the detachment to spend the night at Saint-Pavin, as had been agreed upon. He was impatient to leave the neighborhood.
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