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This time Brise-Bleu had provided luxury in the shape of a bottle of wine and a glass. Cadoudal motioned Roland to the table and the improvised repast. The young man sprang from his horse, throwing the bridle to a Chouan. Cadoudal did likewise. "Now," said the latter, turning to his men, "you have half an hour to do as we do.
Then, turning to the man who seemed to be in charge of the provisions, Cadoudal added, "Brise-Bleu, is there anything for breakfast?" Brise-Bleu nodded affirmatively, went into the wood, and came out dragging after him a donkey loaded with two baskets. He spread a cloak on a rise of the ground, and placed on it a roast chicken, a bit of cold salt pork, some bread and buckwheat cakes.
"I give them, or rather I confide them to you. I regret that your horse was killed; so is mine. But there is still that of Brise-Bleu; accept it." The young man made a motion of rejection. "Until you can obtain another, of course," added Cadoudal, bowing. Roland felt that he must put himself, at least in simplicity, on a level with the man with whom he was dealing.
"Excuse the repast I offer you," said Cadoudal; "unlike your generals, I don't make prize money; my soldiers feed me. Have you anything else for us, Brise-Bleu?" "A chicken fricassee, general." "That's your dinner, Monsieur de Montrevel." "A feast! Now, I have but one fear, general." "What is it?" "All will go well for the eating, but when it comes to drinking " "Don't you like cider? The devil!
"Oh!" said Georges, "I do not trouble myself about that; he will be executed." One of the two men who had brought in the supper table now entered the room. "Brise-Bleu," said Cadoudal, "tell Coeur-de-Roi that I wish to speak to him." Two minutes later the Breton presented himself. "Coeur-de-Roi," said Cadoudal, "did you not tell me that the murderer Thomas Milliere was at Roche-Bernard?"
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