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"But stay, you shall not come from Havre to Paris to see Canalis without carrying something back with you. Warrior!" It is a treasure which is his alone, it is " "Forgive me for interrupting you," said Dumay, who was gazing at the poet with horror, "but did you ever come to Havre?" "I was there for a day and a night in the spring of 1824 on my way to London."
With the darkness silence had settled upon the streets of Havre de Grace. They who had trodden, for hours, with burning hearts around the sites of their desecrated homes, retired to the house of some charitable and more fortunate neighbor, to seek such rest as misery may hope.
And now the reason of the long silence was made clear to them: the letter that he had addressed from Paris to Doctor Dalichamp on the 18th, the very day that ended railway communication with Havre, had gone astray and had only reached them at last by a miracle, after a long and circuitous journey. "Ah, the dear boy!" said Jean, radiant with delight. "Read it to me, quick!"
She examined him from top to toe and then said amusedly: "Did you know that for the past week Olga has been searching Havre high and low for you?" "No. I didn't know it. Where is she now?" "At Trouville. And I was to have dined with her tonight." "I'm afraid you'll hardly get there," he said, looking at his watch. "This line doesn't connect." "Doesn't it? Oh, some line will, I suppose."
As soon as the robbery was discovered, picked detectives hastened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York and other ports, inspired by the promised reward of two thousand pounds, and five per cent on the sum that might be recovered.
And Havre and Gibraltar and Marseilles and Genoa and and by and by, Calcutta and Hong Kong and Singapore. I've seen 'em all, of course, but you haven't.
At this time a new and active-minded minister, Choiseul, was called into power by Louis XV. From the beginning of 1759, preparations were made in the ocean and Channel ports. Flat-boats to transport troops were built at Havre, Dunkirk, Brest, and Rochefort. It was intended to embark as many as fifty thousand men for the invasion of England, while twelve thousand were to be directed upon Scotland.
"What does she mean?" said Agatha, looking up puzzled, as they stood in the hall. "She reads people's minds wonderfully clear; she always did, but clearer than ever now. It is strange. Agatha, do you think" "I think all sorts of things about her different and contrary every hour. But the chief thought of all is, that you must go to Havre at once. I long for Uncle Brian's coming.
Father Bernard's party consisted of Fathers Walworth, Hecker, Landtsheer, Kittell, Dold, and Giesen, and the students Hellemans, Müller, and Wirth, the American fathers having come to Havre from London by way of Dover, Calais, and Paris. The weather was unfavorable during nearly the entire voyage, the ship being driven back into the English Channel and forced to anchor in the Downs.
A sum of about a hundred pounds was scraped together for his expenses, and it was arranged that he should write weekly letters at the rate of two guineas a letter. In the autumn of 1831 he sailed in a merchant-vessel for Havre, whence he journeyed to Paris in November.
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