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You will leave your post-chaise at Delbauce; there you will find four horses all saddled and stuffed with oats. You will then calculate your time, and the day after to-morrow, or rather to-morrow, for it is past midnight, between seven and eight in the morning, the money of Messires Bruin will pass an anxious quarter of an hour." "Shall we change our clothes?" inquired d'Assas.
From that moment the expedition had begun, and Morgan became its leader; he no longer consulted, he commanded. D'Assas, who in Morgan's absence commanded, was the first to obey on his return. Half an hour later a closed carriage containing four young men wrapped in their cloaks was stopped at the Fontainebleau barrier by the post-guard, who demanded their passports.
Chartres, Duc de and Duc d'Orléans recalled from banishment; and the Comte d'Artois establish horse-racing; displays cowardice as rear-admiral; refused marriage with Madame Royale; and the red cap of liberty. Chevalier d'Assas, story of the. Chinon, M. de. Choiseul, Duc de; dismissal of; recall from banishment. Choisy, private parties at. Clergy, oppression of the.
D'Artois, Comte, marriage of the; and; the Duc de Chartres establish horse-racing; his character; shielding the Duc de Chartres; watching at the queen's bedside during her illness; shows contempt for the commercial orders; flees from Paris; misconduct of the; refuses to return to France. D'Assas, Chevalier, story of the.
Instantly his memory flew back to the court-yard and class-rooms of the school in the Rue d'Assas, and he saw a heavily built lad, for ever under punishment, standing out face to the wall during playtime, getting and giving mighty fisticuffs, a terrible fellow for plain speaking and hard hitting, industrious, yet a thorn in the side of masters, always in ill-luck, yet ever and anon electrifying the class with some stroke of genius.
His face brightened. Michel de Bourges, so dauntless in the face of death, was faint-hearted in the face of exile. Brutalities and ferocities were mingled together. The great sculptor, David d'Angers, was arrested in his own house, 16, Rue d'Assas; the Commissary of Police on entering, said to him, "Have you any arms in your house?" "Yes," Said David, "for my defence." And he added,
"And I can add," said Morgan, "that M. Roland de Montrevel is already in the field. He had a conference with the captain of the gendarmerie, in the prison at Bourg, yesterday." "Does any one know why?" asked a voice. "The deuce!" said another, "to engage our cells." "Do you still mean to protect him?" asked d'Assas. "More than ever." "Ah! that's too much!" muttered a voice.
The Mongols thought to terrify the garrison by parading this general, whose name should be preserved, Yukwang, before the walls, but he baffled their purpose by shouting out, "Be of good courage, Suta is coming to your rescue." Yukwang was cut to pieces, but his timely and courageous exclamation, like that of D'Assas, saved his countrymen.
Marie was buried in gloom, and the Englishman, after trying once or twice to cheer him up, realized that he was best left to himself just then, and so held his tongue. But in the rue d'Assas, as Ste. Marie was getting down Hartley kept the fiacre to go on to his rooms in the Avenue de l'Observatoire he made a last attempt to lighten the man's depression.
"You know it; let Cadoudal know it, and take measures." Just then the music ceased; the hum of the dancers died away; complete silence prevailed; and, in the midst of this silence, four names were pronounced in a sonorous and emphatic voice. These four names were Morgan, Montbar, Adler and d'Assas.
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