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In this condition the boat drifted under the enemy's battery, when a hot fire was poured into her. All probably would have been killed or taken prisoners, had not George Ingouville, one of the Arrogant's crew, though already wounded, of his own accord jumped overboard, and, taking the painter in hand, towed her off the shore.
The First Consul received, the day of his arrival at Havre, only a part of the authorities of the city, and soon after retired, saying that he was fatigued; but at six o'clock in the morning of the next day he was on horseback, and until two o'clock he rode along the seacoast and low hills of Ingouville for more than a league, and the banks of the Seine as far as the cliffs of Hoc.
Zilah and his friend, therefore, passed long hours upon the terrace of the villa, watching the sun set at their feet, while the grayish-blue sea was enveloped in a luminous mist, and the fading light was reflected upon the red walls and white blinds of the houses, and tinged with glowing purple the distant hills of Ingouville.
A man who let out vehicles accosted them, and offered them drives around the neighbourhood Ingouville, Octeville, Fécamp, Lillebonne, "Rome, if it was necessary." His charges were preposterous, but the name of Falaise had struck them. By turning off the main road a little, they could see Étretat, and they took the coach that started from Fécamp to go to the farthest point first.
And these insults were not uttered in secret or left to Modeste's imagination; she heard them spoken more than once by the young men and the young women of Havre as they walked to Ingouville, and, knowing that Madame Mignon and her daughter lived at the Chalet, talked of them as they passed the house.
"Thousands of schemes had been planned on the strength of this expected return; we were even to buy a little house with my uncle's money a little place in the country near Ingouville. In fact, I wouldn't swear that my father had not already begun negotiations. "The elder of my sisters was then twenty-eight, the other twenty-six. They were not yet married, and that was a great grief to every one.
This eminence, or line of hills, which coasts the Seine from Rouen to the seashore, leaving a margin of valley land more or less narrow between itself and the river, and containing in its cities, its ravines, its vales, its meadows, veritable treasures of the picturesque, became of enormous value in and about Ingouville, after the year 1816, the period at which the prosperity of Havre began.
The First Consul received, the day of his arrival at Havre, only a part of the authorities of the city, and soon after retired, saying that he was fatigued; but at six o'clock in the morning of the next day he was on horseback, and until two o'clock he rode along the seacoast and low hills of Ingouville for more than a league, and the banks of the Seine as far as the cliffs of Hoc.
However this may be, the traveller approaching Havre on a steamer is surprised to find a barren coast and tangled gorges to the west of Ingouville, like a beggar in rags beside a perfumed and sumptuously apparelled rich man.
At these words a truce of silence came between the pair; the mother's blighted eyes rained tears which Modeste could not check, though she threw herself upon her knees, and cried: "Forgive me! oh, forgive me, mother!" At this instant the excellent Dumay was coming up the hill of Ingouville on the double-quick, a fact quite abnormal in the present life of the cashier.
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