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The best revenge you can have is, instead of dancing on his prostrate body, to set him an example of forbearance and self-control in your own conduct, which shall point him out a surer road to respect and authority than all the bullying in the world could ever give him. The eager crowd thronged the little Norman seaport of Barfleur.
The girl and the Indian lad were pounding through the night with ears strained to listen for hoof-beats coming after, with eyes searching forward into the trail for swollen creeks and direful obstructions. Through Barfleur Coulée it was a terrible march, for there was no road, and again and again they were nearly overturned, while wolves hovered in their path, ready to reap a midnight harvest.
"Well, it was on the twenty-ninth of August, '82, that's just fourteen years and about six weeks ago, that we were lying at Spithead, in company with Lord Howe's fleet of between twenty and thirty sail of the line: there was the Victory, Barfleur, Ocean, and Union, all three-deckers, I recollect, close to us.
I got dreaming of redcoats and U. S. marshals, and an ambush in the Barfleur Coulee, and " He saw a secret, warning gesture from the girl, and laughed, then turned to Abe and looked him in the face. "Oh, I know him! Abe Hawley's all O. K. I've seen him over at Dingan's Drive. Honour among rogues. We're all in it.
He was within a few leagues of Barfleur when, before daybreak, on the morning of the nineteenth of May, he saw the great armament of the allies stretching along the eastern horizon. He determined to bear down on them. By eight the two lines of battle were formed; but it was eleven before the firing began.
There has been some attempt to prove that Gyllyngvase, which is the present Falmouth bathing-place, was the scene of the burial of Prince William, son of Henry I., who was drowned off Barfleur, to his father's lasting sorrow; the supposition being that Gyllyng was a corruption of William.
Thus reinforced, the Admiral had under his command Guns. 100 Victory, Admiral Sir John Jervis. Captain Robert Calder. Captain George Grey. Britannia, Vice-admiral Charles Thompson. Captain Foley. 98 Barfleur, Vice-admiral Hon. W. Waldegrave. Captain J.R. Dacres. Prince George, Rear-admiral W. Parker. Captain John Irwin. Blenheim, Captain Thos. L. Frederick. 90 Namur, Captain James H. Whitshed.
The two British vessels then immediately engaged with her were the Russell and the Barfleur, Hood's flagship, to the latter of which she formally surrendered; the exact moment, noted in Hood's journal, being 6.29 P.M. For this easy-going deliberation also Hood had strong words of condemnation. "Why he should bring the fleet to because the Ville de Paris was taken, I cannot reconcile.
Her movement was imitated by her followers, some keeping off sooner, some later; but de Grasse in his flagship not only came close, but pointed his after yards to the wind, to move the slower. As he ported his helm when leaving the Barfleur, this brought these sails aback, keeping him a still longer time before the British ships thrown to the rear.
By the end of June the young bridegroom was at Barfleur preparing to cross the channel with an invading force. But he was not to be permitted to enjoy his new fortunes unchallenged. Louis VII in particular had reasons for interfering, and the law was on his side. The heiress Eleanor had no right to marry without the consent of her feudal suzerain.
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