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I was commissioned to arrest your servant for the theft of two ducks surreptitiously taken by him from M. Duhamel of which act there are witnesses. I shall make a note of your information." Then, turning toward his men, he ordered: "Come on, bring him along!" The two gendarmes dragged Denis out. The lawyer used a plea of insanity, contrasting the two misdeeds in order to strengthen his argument.
Thus did he escape, and thus was he borne a limp, agonised, and bleeding mass, to the house of Duhamel. The old schoolmaster received them with tears in his eyes nor were they altogether tears of sorrow, for all that poor Caron's mangled condition grieved him sorely; they were in a measure tears of thankfulness; for Duhamel had not dared hope to see the young man alive again.
He drank gratefully, and the invigorating effects were almost instantaneous. "Now let us see to your hurts," said the schoolmaster, who had taken some linen and a pot of unguents from a cupboard. La Boulaye sat up, and what time Duhamel was busy dressing his lacerated back, the young man talked with Robespierre. "You are going to Paris, you say, Monsieur?"
His delivery was impassioned, and although in what he said there was perhaps nothing that was fresh to the lawyer of Arras, yet the manner in which he said it was impressive to a degree. "But Duhamel," he cried to the schoolmaster, "you did not tell me this young patriot was an orator." "Nor am I, Monsieur," smiled La Boulaye. "I am but the mouthpiece of the great Rousseau.
M. Duhamel felled a great many trees of the same age, growing from the same soil, and exposed to the same aspect, and never found any difference in the quality of the timber, when he compared those which were felled in the decline of the moon with those which were felled during its increase: in general, they have afforded timber of the same quality.
Popular amongst the women by virtue of his comeliness, and respected by the men by virtue of his strength, Charlot Tardivet was a general favourite of the countryside, and here, in the room of old Duhamel, the schoolmaster, was half the village gathered to do him honour upon his wedding morn.
When I explained that I wanted to secure two passages to St. Boniface, his brows contracted. "So you, too, are going to the Château Duchaine!" he exclaimed. "Is there not room for two more on the boat of Captain Duhamel?" I disclaimed all knowledge of Duhamel, but he looked entirely unconvinced.
Well, monsieur, a party sails with Captain Duhamel on tonight's tide, which will carry me down the gulf also. "You see, monsieur," he continued, "it is impossible to clear the ice unless the tide bears us down; but once the Isle of Orleans is past we shall be in more open water and independent of the current.
Within the schoolmaster's study he whom Duhamel called Maximilien strode to and fro, his hands clasped behind his back, his head bent, his chin thrust forward, denouncing the seigneurial system, of whose atrocity he had received that evening instances enough for he had heard the whole story of La Boulaye's rebellion against the power of Bellecour and the causes that had led to it.
"Robespierre is my name," was the answer, and to La Boulaye it conveyed no enlightenment, for the name of Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre, which within so very short a time was to mean so much in France, as yet meant nothing. La Boulaye inclined his head as if acknowledging an introduction, then turned his attention to Duhamel who was offering him a cup of wine.
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