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Morgan examined the two articles with the closest attention, but without result. "If I were not in such a hurry," said he, "I should like to look into the matter for myself. But you heard for yourself; in all probability, some news has reached the committee; government money probably. You can announce it to Cadoudal; only we shall have to take it first.
Men who had borne a part in the worst crimes of the Reign of Terror, and men who had fought in the army of Condé, were to be found close together, both in his antechambers and in his dungeons. He decorated Fouché and Maury with the same cross. He sent Aréna and Georges Cadoudal to the same scaffold.
A man came out and walked quickly up the street; the woman approached, and when the man was under the single lamp swung aloft, he felt his arm touched: the woman was at his side, and looking steadily into his face "You are Pierre Guillot, the Breton, the friend of George Cadoudal. Will you be his avenger?"
At any cost, therefore, Cadoudal and his Chouans must prove to the commander-in-chief that they knew no fear, and had nothing to expect from intimidation. Just then the gallop of a horse was heard; the rider no doubt had the countersign, for he passed without difficulty the various patrols stationed along the toad to La Roche-Bernard, and entered the village of Muzillac, also without difficulty.
I will be present at what takes place; but I will not share in it either to hinder or help." "Well," demanded a hundred voices, "what does he say, Sabre-tout?" "He says we must act according to our consciences, and that he washes his hands of it." "Long live the Big Round Head!" cried all the people, rushing toward the diligence. Cadoudal remained motionless in the midst of this crowd.
Cadoudal pricked up his ears; his men looked at each other and laughed. The cock crowed again, but nearer. "It is he," said Cadoudal; "answer him." The howling of a dog came from within three feet of Roland, but so perfectly imitated that the young man, although aware of what it was, looked about him for the animal that was uttering such lugubrious plaints.
Roland, tell the colonel that he is as free in Paris as you were in his camp at Muzillac, and that if he wishes a passport for any country in the world, Fouche has orders to give it to him." "Your word suffices, citizen First Consul," replied Cadoudal, bowing. "I leave to-night." "May I ask where you are going?" "To London, general." "So much the better." "Why so much the better?"
"We are bandits, brigands, highwaymen," said Morgan, dwelling on the words with evident intention. "Hush!" said Amelie, laying her hand on her lover's lips. "Hush! don't let us speak of that. Tell me how it is that your king has released you, and your general also." "The First Consul wished to see Cadoudal. In the first place, he sent your brother to him with certain proposals.
For more than half a century it was the "Newspaper Row," then it gradually became the dry-goods district, then settled down to a general centre for wholesale houses. At one corner of the square lived for a time Jean Victor Moreau, the French General, after he had been banished for supposed participation in the plot of Cadoudal and Pichegru against the life of the First Consul.
General Brune, the conqueror of Alkmaar and Castricum, the savior of Holland, had just been appointed to the command of the Republican forces in the West. He had reached Nantes three days previous, intending, at any cost, to annihilate Cadoudal and his Chouans.
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