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I leave thee the task. Balafre, support your nephew; but let none dare to interfere with Dunois's boar hunt!" That Quentin Durward joyfully acquiesced in this division of labour cannot be doubted, and each pressed forward upon his separate object, followed, and defended from behind, by such men at arms as were able to keep up with them.
In the excess of spirits that prosperity created he flirted rather openly with a number of virgins in Carondelet, to the scandal of Dunois, who forbade him his house, and of the priest, who put him under ban. For the priest he cared nothing, but Dunois's anger was more serious for the only maid of all that he really loved was Marie Dunois, his daughter.
In the excess of spirits that prosperity created he flirted rather openly with a number of virgins in Carondelet, to the scandal of Dunois, who forbade him his house, and of the priest, who put him under ban. For the priest he cared nothing, but Dunois's anger was more serious for the only maid of all that he really loved was Marie Dunois, his daughter.
Joan's arrival had infused a fresh spirit of enthusiasm and patriotism into the citizens, and the English were no longer feared. We have Dunois's authority for the fact that whereas, up to that time, two hundred English could put eight hundred French to the rout, now five hundred French soldiers were prepared to meet the entire English army. On the 13th of April, hostilities had recommenced.
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