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Updated: June 15, 2025
The girl drew back, then charged like a little fury on the gunstocks and bosoms of the troopers, pounding them with her fists. Unable to move this granite-like wall, she dashed back to the balcony eyrie, imploring Louise with both hands. "Arrest her!" said de Linieres to the soldiers. Brawny troopers pulled her back as she would have jumped out of the window to the flagging below and her Louise.
But History struck faster. The avenger Jacques-Forget-Not annihilated pardons. The Linieres and the other aristocrats were soon to flee for their lives.
That night the beautiful Hotel de Vaudrey home of the Vaudrey and Linieres family and fortune was given up to sack and pillage. Enraged that the objects of his vengeance had fled, the leader Forget-Not ordered a general demolition. Priceless works of art were hurled about and destroyed. The cellars of old wines were quickly emptied by drunken revelers.
Perhaps some one will recognize the melody, and lead me back to her!" A beautifully majestic, ermined figure stepped graciously out of the church, as La Frochard rejoined Louise and began whining: "Charity! In the name of God, Charity!" whilst the girl's voice lifted up in an old plaintive melody. The lady was the Countess de Linieres, returning from her devotions.
About this time the Countess de Linieres, calling one day at her husband's ministerial offices, learned of his purposes. "I was about to come to you," said the Count, "but you have anticipated me. I desire to speak with you on the subject of your nephew, the Chevalier de Vaudrey, and to ask you to prepare him for the marriage which the King "
There dawned happier days wherein justice bore sway, and little gardens of flowers and love and happiness again sprang up and flourished. Among these blooming gardens let us seek the refuge of Count and Countess de Linieres after the Storm has abated and the kinsfolk it has sundered are united.
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