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As they were making their way up the principal street, still striking down the republicans wherever they continued to make resistance, but more often giving quarter, and promising protection, de Lescure with a pistol held by the barrel in his left hand, and with his right arm hastily tied up in the red handkerchief taken from a peasant's neck, said to the man who was next to him, but whom he did not at the moment perceive to be Denot: "Look at Larochejaquelin, the gallant fellow; look at the red scarf on the castle wall.
Denot blushed at the heavy accusation against himself which these words conveyed; but he made no answer. "And this old man, my friend?" said Santerre, "this ancient cripple that you tell me of? he is too old, too infirm, I suppose, to care much about this revolt?" "Not at all," said Denot; "no one in the country is more anxious for success than the old Marquis."
When Chapeau left them, the crowd were collected immediately in the front of the house and on the steps, but none of them had yet forced their way into the chateau; since he had gone upstairs, however, they had pushed open the door, and now filled the hall; although their accustomed respect for the persons and property of those above them, had still kept them from breaking into the room, in which they knew were M. de Lescure and Adolphe Denot.
Yes, my friends, you will be spared an unpleasant job, and the rope and the tree will not be contaminated." "Pardoned him pardoned Adolphe Denot pardoned the traitor who brought Santerre and the republicans to Durbelliere pardoned the wretch who so grossly insulted Mademoiselle Agatha, and nearly killed M. le Marquis," cried one after another immediately round the door.
"Did you see M. Denot?" said he to a soldier, who was now standing on the ground at his horse's head. "You mean the gentleman who was riding with you all the day, General he who had lost his cap?" "Yes, yes, did you see him? he passed over the bridge with me." "General," said the man, "he never passed the bridge. He fell on the very centre of it.
"Is he asleep?" asked Henri, in a whisper, such as seems to come naturally to every one, when speaking by the bed-side of those who are in great danger, but which is generally much more painfully audible to a sick man than the natural voice. Denot opened his eyes, and showed, by the slight motion of his head, that he had heard his friend's voice, but he was at the moment unable to speak.
"I certainly vote for Cathelineau," said Father Jerome, who came next. "We should be offending our Creator," said M. d'Elbee, "were we to reject the great and good Commander, whom His gracious providence has sent us. I vote for Cathelineau." "And you, M. Denot," said the Prince.
"They say that you and M. Henri may do what you please about Santerre and the soldiers, but that Adolphe Denot has betrayed the cause, insulted Mademoiselle, and proved himself unfit to live; and that they will not leave the chateau as long as a breath of life remains in his body." "And you, Chapeau, what did you say to them in reply?"
The men at once perceived this and hesitated to cross the river; two of the foremost of their men fell as they put their feet upon the bridge. De Lescure had marched from the camp at the head of his men. Father Jerome was on his right hand, and Stofflet and Adolphe Denot at his left.
Denot came to the door, and undid the wooden bolt within, to admit, as he thought, the poor zealous creature who had attached himself to him in his new career; and when the door opened, the friend of his youth the man whom he had so deeply injured stood before him.
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