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Updated: June 20, 2025
But one day, as the door of the reception-room opened, and Eugene and Hortense entered with Madame Lanoy, Fortune's loud barking trumpet sounded not, and he sprang not forward toward Josephine. He walked on gravely with measured steps at the side of Madame Lanoy, who led him with a string which she had fastened to his collar.
The jailer had seen nothing; he was telling Madame Lanoy, with all the pride of a kind father, that all the prisoners were anxious about his little Eugenie; that all, more than once a day, inquired how it fared with the little one; that she was the pet of the prisoners, who were so delighted to have the child with them, and for long hours to jest and play with her.
The little eleven-year-old Hortense, the daughter of the Citizeness Beauharnais, was now the assistant of the Citizeness Lanoy, at the trade of seamstress.
Unfortunate captives, who nattered the child, and feigned love for it, so as to move the father's heart, and instil into it a little compassion for their misfortune! When Eugene and Hortense came the next time with their faithful Lanoy, Fortune was again led by the string as a prisoner, and this time Josephine was still more affectionate than before.
She received daily from him news and messages; she could often, in the hours when the prisoners in separate detachments made their promenades in the yard and in the garden, meet Alexandre, reach him her hand, whisper low words of trust, of hope, and speak with him of Eugene and Hortense, of these dear children who, now deserted by their parents, could hope for protection and safety only from the faithfulness and love of their governess, Madame Lanoy.
"Eternity is mute. Ask me concerning my past life." "Who is it that lives in the convent which thou mentionedst to me in thy last moments?" "My daughter." "How? Hast thou been a father?" "Woe is me that I was not." "Art thou not happy, Lanoy?" "God has judged." "Can I render thee any further service in this world?" "None but to think of thyself." "How must I do that?" "Thou wilt learn at Rome."
"Did you make no further inquiries about the matter in his native country?" "I did, but they all proved fruitless." "Had the Marquis de Lanoy led an irreproachable life? I dare not call up every shade indiscriminately." "He died, repenting the excesses of his youth." "Do you carry with you any token of his!" "I do." "I do not want to know what it is.
On the 11th of December, he summoned the committee of safety and, agreeably to their advice, swore in the following persons for his council. "Peter De Lanoy, Samuel Stoats, Hendrick Jansen and Johannes Vermilie, for New York; Gerardus Beekman, for King's County; Thomas Williams for West Chester, and William Lawrence, for Orange County."
Accompanied by their children and by the governess of Hortense, Madame Lanoy, the viscount and his wife went to a property belonging to one of the Beauharnais family near Solange.
The figure touched his arm, and the weapon fell to the ground. The perspiration stood on my brow with horror. Baron afterwards confessed to me that he had prayed silently. During all this time the prince stood fearless and tranquil, his eyes riveted on the second apparition. "Yes, I know thee," said he at length, with emotion; "thou art Lanoy; thou art my friend. Whence comest thou?"
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