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He would not allow nature more than man to resist him. One day when he was proceeding to Belgium by the way of Civet, he was detained for a short time at Little Givet, on the right bank of the Meuse, in consequence of an accident which happened to the ferry-boat.
Even the surgeon is unable to see how you held out as long as you did. You have had a mighty narrow escape, I can tell you!" "I guess I have," replied Hal feebly. "But anyhow it's an escape. Did you deliver the letter to General Givet?" "Yes." At this juncture, a nurse approached. "You must go now," she told Chester. "Your friend must have perfect quiet for the remainder of the day."
"A young Englishman, whom I picked up close by, escaped from prison." "Where from?" "He will not say; but I suspect from Givet." "There are two who have escaped from Givet," replied he: "how they escaped no one can imagine; but," continued he, again looking at O'Brien, "Avec les braves, il n'y a rien d'impossible." "That is true," replied O'Brien; "I have taken one, the other cannot be far off.
He gave to Givet a stone bridge over the Meuse, and at Sedan the widow Madame Rousseau received from him the sum of sixty thousand francs for the re-establishment of the factory destroyed by fire. Indeed, I cannot begin to enumerate all the benefits, both public and private, which the First Consul and Madame Bonaparte scattered along their route.
It was late afternoon when he made out in the distance the town of Louvain. He quickened his pace, and soon came upon the outposts. "I have a communication for General Givet," he told the soldier who stopped him. The soldier lowered the weapon, with which he had barred the lad's progress, and called a nearby officer. The latter led Hal to the general's quarters.
"Do you realize what you are saying?" "Perfectly, sir, and I am prepared to prove what I say." Captain Bassil smiled sneeringly. "I won't believe you will take any stock in such a wild story, sir," he said to General Givet. "With your permission, I shall go to my own quarters." "One moment," said the general, raising a detaining hand, and then turned to Chester.
The civil war imminent in her midst and fomented by England had aroused the solicitude of M. de Calonne; he had prepared the resources necessary for forming a camp near Givet; his successor diverted the funds to another object.
Even from where he was, in the dim light Chester recognized the horseman, and his spirits rose. It was plainly apparent that the rider would pass within a few feet of him. A moment more, and he was close enough to the mounted officer to touch his horse. Suddenly the lad sprang forward and cried: "General Givet! General Givet!" The mounted officer pulled up his horse sharply.
"Yes," replied I, "most certainly, if you have sufficient confidence in me to take me as your companion." "To tell you the truth, Peter, I would not give a farthing to escape without you. We were taken together, and, please God, we'll take ourselves off together, directly we get the dark nights and foul weather." We had been about two months in Givet when letters arrived.
Such was his oration: and never was army more thoroughly imbued with the spirit of its chief. Blucher's army numbered at this time about 100,000 men, and, extending along the line of the Sambre and the Meuse, occupied Charleroi, Namur, Givet, and Liege. They communicated on their right with the left of the Anglo-Belgian army, under Wellington, whose headquarters were at Brussels.
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