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You will then concert with General Clerveaux the measures for the defence of this city, and report your decisions to me, on my return from Cap Samana. Shall it be so, brother?" "Be it so." "And we are friends?" "We are fellow-citizens we are Ouvertures and therefore faithful. I shall not betray you." "That is all I can ask, I know. We are old men, Paul. Fidelity for a while!
"Your pardon, General Clerveaux. This your department in the east is likely at present to remain tranquil, as I forewarned you. I now forewarn you that it may hereafter become the seat of war, when you will have your day. Meantime, I may at any time call upon your reserve; and you will take care that the enemy shall find no solace in your department, if they should visit it.
"That it is yielding, unnecessarily and fatally, to the invaders. Where are our censures of Clerveaux and Maurepas, if we, too, yield to Leclerc, and make terms with him?" "Every one of our people will understand the difference in the cases.
"Every one who has deserted us, except, perhaps, La Plume. He is sordid; and I dismiss him. As for Clerveaux and his thousands, they have been weak, but not, perhaps, wicked. They may be recovered. I take the blame of their weakness upon myself. Would that I alone could bear the consequences!" "You take the blame of their weakness? Is not their former slavery the cause of it?
Let it be bare as the desert before them. Farewell; I leave you in command of the east." Clerveaux made his obeisance with an alacrity which caused Toussaint to say to himself, as he mounted "Is he glad that the hour is come, or that his post is in the rear of the battle?"
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