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'Master Gardon! cried Eustacie. 'Oh, I know! O sir, my husband loved and honoured you. 'Your husband? 'Yes, sir, le Baron de Ribaumont. 'That fair and godly youth! My dear old patron's son! You you! But with a shade of doubt, almost of dismay, 'the boy was wedded wedded to the heiress 'Yes, yes, I am that unhappy one! We were to have fled together on that dreadful night.
Julien, which rises behind it, and the river Gardon, along which a modern quay-wall extends, forming a pleasant promenade as well as a barrier against the furious torrents which rush down from the mountains in winter. A little above the town, the river passes through a rocky gorge formed by the rugged grey cliffs of Peyremale on the one bank and St. Julien on the other.
We went to see the scene of the battle, some three miles to the south-east, passing through a well-tilled country, with the peasants busily at work in the fields. From the high ground behind Ners a fine view is obtained of the valley of the Gardon, overlooking the junction of its two branches descending by Alais and Anduze, the mountains of the Cevennes rising up in the distance.
At one of his meetings, held at Boucoiran on the Gardon, about half way between Nismes and Anduze, a Protestant nobleman a nouveau convertis, who had abjured his religion to retain his estates was present, and stood near the preacher during the service. One of the Government spies was present, and gave information. The name of the Protestant nobleman was not known.
Her cookery he tasted, her industry he saw, her tenderness to her child, her attention to her father, were his daily admiration; and her soft velvet eyes and sweet smile went so deep in his heart that he would have bought her ells upon ells of pink ribbon, when once out of sight of the old ladies; would have given a father's love to her little daughter, and a son's duty and veneration to Isaac Gardon.
There was what in later times has been termed an underground railway amid the persecuted Calvinists, and M. Gardon knew his ground well enough to have little doubt of being able to conduct the lady safely to some town on the coast, whence she might reach her friends in England. The plan highly satisfied Martin.
Philip felt relieved to be free from all doubt about these very uninviting little ones, but Berenger, though sighing heavily, asked quickly, 'Permit me, Madame, a few questions. Little maid, did you ever hear of Isaac Gardon? 'Maitre Isaac! Oh yes, sir. We used to hear him preach at the church, and sometimes he catechized us, she said, and her lip quivered.
'At a hostel, sir, at Charente, where she was attending on an old heretic teacher of the name of Gardon, who had fallen sick there, being pinched by the fiend with rheumatic pains after his deserts. She bore the name of Esperance Gardon, and passed for his son's widow.
'No, for she shall never go! 'There! lamented Nanon 'so she agitates herself, when it is but spoken of. And surely she had better make up her mind, for there is no other choice. 'Nay, Nanon, said M. Gardon, 'wherefore should she part with the charge that God has laid on her? Eustacie gave a little cry of grateful joy. 'Oh, sir, come nearer!
Meantime the royalists were very active, and Cavalier felt that it would be imprudent to remain long at Pierredon, so setting out during the night, and crossing the Gardon, he buried himself in the forest of Hieuzet, whither he hoped his enemies would not venture to follow him.
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