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Updated: June 7, 2025


"Adjutant," said Clef-des-Coeurs, "isn't it a sham attack, to capture our travellers and get a ransom." "The devil is in it, but I believe you are right," replied Gerard, darting back towards the highroad. Just then the Chouan fire slackened, for, in truth, the whole object of the skirmish was to give the chevalier an opportunity to utter his warning to the Gars.

Marche-a-Terre curled himself up in such a way that the cleverest spy, at any distance far or near, might have taken him for one of those huge dogs that drag the hand-carts, lying asleep with his muzzle on his paws. The behavior of the Chouan proved to Francine that he had not recognized her.

Alarmed at such enormous expense, and not imaging that her son could earn much money by painting naked women, she obtained, thanks to her confessor, the Abbe Loraux, a place worth seven hundred francs a year in a lottery-office belonging to the Comtesse de Bauvan, the widow of a Chouan leader.

The Chouan paid no attention to the movements of the young officer, and continued to play with his whip, and fling out the lash of it as though he were fishing in the ditch.

You will answer for him to me," he added, turning to Pille-Miche; "for if he does wrong I shall take it out on the thing that fills your goatskin." "But, Monsieur Marche-a-Terre, with all due respect," said Galope-Chopine, "haven't you sometimes taken a counterfeit Chouan for a real one."

Roland seemed to hesitate for a moment whether to follow him or not; then, as if resolving to accomplish a duty, he said: "I will go to the end." Spurring his horse in the direction taken by Cadoudal he reached the Chouan leader in a few strides.

The clerical dress of the Abbe Gudin and the singularity of the Chouan garments were so many warnings to them; they redoubled their watchfulness, and soon discovered many discrepancies between the manners of the guests and the topics of their conversation. The republicanism of some was quite as exaggerated as the aristocratic bearing of others was unmistakable.

The rules were not very strict for those inmates who had a little money to spend; she received visitors, sent to Tournebut for her backgammon-board and her book of rules, and calmly awaited the long-hoped-for thunderbolt. It fell at length, and the old Chouan must have flushed with triumph when she heard that Bonaparte was crushed. What a sudden change!

"Stand up!" said the Chouan. The priest tried to obey, but his strength failed him, and he fell again to his knees. "Will yon let that murder be done before your eyes?" Roland asked Cadoudal. "I said that I washed my hands of it," replied the latter. "Pilate said that, and Pilate's hands are to this day red with the blood of Jesus Christ."

The mayor was convinced that a priest who refused the oath had arrived from La Vendee and asked for asylum; but the day being Friday, the purchase of a hare embarrassed the good mayor not a little. The judge of the district court held firmly to the theory of a Chouan leader or a body of Vendeans hotly pursued.

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