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The remainder of that week was spent by Henri and the Cure as actively and as successfully as the day in which they visited Echanbroignes. The numbers they enrolled exceeded their hopes, and they found among the people many more arms than they expected, though mostly of a very rude kind.
On a beautiful summer's morning, on the 2nd of June, this remarkable recruiting party rode from Durbelliere to the little village of Echanbroignes; the distance was about four leagues, and their road lay, the whole way, through the sweet green leafy lanes of the Bocage. The aspect of this province is very singular, and in summer most refreshing.
But what then; we shall be in Laval tomorrow, and have the best of everything that is, if not tomorrow, the day after." "I don't much care about the best of everything, M. Chapeau. I've not used myself to the best, but I would it had pleased God. to have allowed me to labour out the rest of my days in the little smithy at Echanbroignes. I never wanted more than the bread which I could earn."
He had another reason for the more than ordinary gaiety with which he trotted on towards Echanbroignes.
Let it not be said that there was one recreant in Echanbroignes one man afraid to answer when called for by his country. Is there danger in the bloody battle we have before us? let us all share it, and it will be lighter.
Michael, now relieved from the presence of aristocracy, eat and drank himself into good humour; and even received, with grim complacency, the jokes of his Sons, who insisted on drinking to his health as a new recruit to the famous regiment which was drawn from the parish of Echanbroignes.
I worked my poor fingers to the bone making a white flag before they went to Saumur, and all they did was to leave it in the streets of Nantes. There's not so much as a bottle of beer, and hardly a bushel of flour left in Echanbroignes. There's the poor dear lovely Cathelineau dead and gone.
Laud's, in Echanbroignes, and Clisson, they are ready, to a man, to oppose the troops: he will go with me to Clisson on Sunday afternoon; on Monday, with God's will, we will be in the thick of it" "And will Father Jerome be there, among the soldiers "said Marie. "Why not," said Henri, "will the peasants fight worse when they see their priest before them?" "And if he should fall?"
"Oh, Mademoiselle, we are only waiting for you." "Waiting for me, child! What on earth do you mean? who told you I was going to be married at all?" It was no wonder that Marie should be astonished at finding her wedding so confidently spoken of by a stranger in Echanbroignes, considering that it was not yet twenty-four hours since Henri had declared his love for her at Clisson.
"Will not Jacques be with you?" said the priest, turning round to Henri. "What should bring him to Coron among my men?" "He says he has friends here in Echanbroignes, and he has begged that he may be here with them on the evening of the 6th, so as to accompany them into Coron on the 7th. We shall all meet at Doue on the 8th."
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