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"But he was blind." "Yes; he had been blind for nearly a year." AT that moment we were interrupted by the appearance of Madame Coutras, who had been paying visits. She came in, like a ship in full sail, an imposing creature, tall and stout, with an ample bust and an obesity girthed in alarmingly by straight-fronted corsets. She had a bold hooked nose and three chins. She held herself upright.
This great prince, not discouraged by the superiority of his enemies, took the field; and in the year 1587 gained at Coutras a complete victory over the army of the French king; but as his allies, the Germans were at the same time discomfited by the army of the league, under the duke of Guise, his situation, notwithstanding his victory, seemed still as desperate as ever.
'But, said I, holding out my knapsack in one hand, and my boots in the other, 'I have baggage. Perceiving that the expression did not change, I added: 'I have also a boat. 'A boat! 'Yes, a boat. 'Where is it? 'On the river. I have left it at the mill just below here. We have come from St. Apre. 'St. Apre! And where are you going? 'To Coutras, I hope.
At the Battle of Coutras, he distributed them in groups of twenty-five, in the midst of his squadrons of cavalry, so that, when the royal gendarmerie advanced to charge the latter, they were suddenly received with murderous volleys by these arquebuse-men of the spur, as they were called, owing to their combination with the cavalry, and the shock they thus encountered gave victory to the Protestants.
It is very faint, but it puts fresh strength into our arms, and revives the hope that this river will lead us somewhere. It led us to Coutras. There at about nine o'clock we beached the half water-logged canoe not far above the spot to which the tide rises from the broad Atlantic. We felt that we had had quite enough waterfaring to satisfy us for the present.
He had made a world and saw that it was good. Then, in pride and contempt, he destroyed it." "But I must show you my picture," said Dr. Coutras, moving on. "What happened to Ata and the child?" "They went to the Marquesas. She had relations there. I have heard that the boy works on one of Cameron's schooners. They say he is very like his father in appearance."
Coutras turned to me. "I still have in my <i bureau> the picture that Strickland gave me," he said. "Would you like to see it?" "Willingly." We got up, and he led me on to the verandah which surrounded his house. We paused to look at the gay flowers that rioted in his garden.
Though unwell, she had visited every counsellor in his own house, and done her utmost to prepare for the renewal of the resistance in case her husband was not released; and she was almost exhausted with fatigue when she went on board a vessel which was to take her to Larmont, whence she meant to go to Coutras, where she was to be permitted to stay for three days.
The battle of Coutras, and the entrance of the German and Swiss mercenaries into that country, were somewhat perplexing. Either those auxiliaries of the Huguenots would be defeated, or they would be victorious, or both parties would come to an agreement. In the first event, the Duke, after sending a little assistance to Mucio, was to effect his passage to England at once.
The king, who had striven to embarrass it by placing himself at its head, gathered round him the politicians and the moderate Catholics who saw in the triumph of the new Duke of Guise the ruin of the monarchy; while Henry of Navarre took the field at the head of the Huguenots, and won in 1587 the victory of Coutras.
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