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But put on speed as far as Mantes, and may Heaven guard you both!" The two men pressed their heels to their horses' flanks, the beasts snorted and pawed the ground anxious to start. There were a few whispered farewells, two loyal hands were stretched out at the last, eager to grasp the leader's hand. Then horses and riders disappeared in the utter darkness which comes before the dawn.
Already in 1083 Queen Matilda had died, to the lasting and sincere grief of her husband; and now William's life was about to end in events which were a fitting close to his stormy career. Border warfare along the French boundary was no unusual thing, but something about a raid of the garrison of Mantes, into Normandy, early in 1087, roused William's especial anger.
As for M. de Rosny, I have told you that he is not here. He has gone to his seat at Mantes. 'Then take me to him! 'At this hour of the night? I said drily. 'It is two days' journey from here. 'Then I will go to an inn, she replied sullenly. 'You have heard that there is no room in the inns' I rejoined with what patience I could.
I do not deny that the limited area of the cage may favour the massacre of the males; but the cause of such butchering must be sought elsewhere. It is perhaps a reminiscence of the carboniferous period when the insect world gradually took shape through prodigious procreation. The Orthoptera, of which the Mantes form a branch, are the first-born of the insect world.
"Oh, then the other one is among the strawberries, by the well." And she began to sob so piteously that no one could hear her unmoved. The girl Rosalie Prudent was acquitted. Monsieur Saval, who was called in Mantes "Father Saval," had just risen from bed. He was weeping. It was a dull autumn day; the leaves were falling. They fell slowly in the rain, like a heavier and slower rain.
At this moment of writing I have a hundred of these importunates on my shoulders, who will make me hate Saint Denis as much as you hate Mantes. 'Tis to-morrow that I take the perilous leap. I kiss a million times the beautiful hands of my angel and the mouth of my dear mistress." A truce renewed at intervals with the Leaguers lasted till the end of the year.
He wore his cassock with the ease of long habit: he was young. His hand was the delicate hand of a Churchman not coarsened by manual labour. Fandor, plunged in reflections, lost all sense of time. The car sped on its way, devouring the miles fleetly. No sooner out of Paris than Saint-Germain was cleared Mantes left behind!
The interval between the summons and the assembling of the clerical and lay notables at Mantes was employed by the Leaguers in frantic and contradictory efforts to retrieve a game which the most sagacious knew to be lost. But the politicians were equal to the occasion, and baffled them at every point.
Having established his headquarters at Mantes, where he was safe, amidst the massacres of women and children ordered by his friend Carriere, he commanded the republican army to enter La Vendee in twelve columns, preceded by fire and sword; and within four weeks, one of the most populous departments of France, to the extent and circumference of sixty leagues, was laid waste-not a house, not a cottage, not a tree was spared, all was reduced to ashes; and the unfortunate inhabitants, who had not perished amid the ruin of their dwellings, were shot or stabbed; while attempting to save themselves from the common conflagration.
On the 16th, May, 1593, he gave notice that he consented to get himself instructed, and that he summoned an assembly at Mantes on the 15th July, of bishops, theologians, princes, lords, and courts of parliament to hold council, and to advise him what was best to do for religion and the State.
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