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This maneuver was not executed without difficulty; the people in carts and on horseback tried to go back, and nearly crushed the crowd behind them. Women cried and men swore, while those who could escape, did, overturning the others. "The Lorraines! the Lorraines!" cried a voice in the midst of this tumult. "Oh!" cried Miton, trembling, "let us fly." "Fly! and where?" said Friard.
"M. Miton, there will be none, I answer for it. Do you not think so, monsieur?" continued he, turning to the long-armed man. "What?" said the other, as though he had not heard. "They say there will be nothing on the Place de Greve to-day." "I think you are wrong, and that there will be the execution of Salcede." "Yes, doubtless: but I mean that there will be no noise about it."
M. Friard, following the direction of his friend's finger, saw them closing yet another door, while a party of Swiss placed themselves before it. "How! more barriers!" cried he. "What did I tell you?" said Miton. At the sight of this new precaution, a long murmur of astonishment and some cries of discontent proceeded from the crowd. "Clear the road! Back!" cried an officer.
In his Memoires pour la Biographie et la Bibliographie de l'ile de Cadix, Don Francisco de Miton, Marquis de Meritos, relates that he corresponded with Haydn and ordered this composition which was to be performed at the Cathedral in Cadiz.
Oh, monsieur, take care, your horse is going to kick." While M. Miton was vainly trying to climb the hedge, and M. Friard to find an opening through which to push himself, their neighbor quietly opened his long legs and strode over the hedge with as much ease as one might have leaped it on horseback.
M. Miton imitated him at last after much detriment to his hands and clothes; but poor Friard could not succeed, in spite of all his efforts, till the stranger, stretching out his long arms, and seizing him by the collar of his doublet, lifted him over.
Along with Miton and other boon companions, he is spoken of as betaking himself to St Cloud for carnival during the Holy Week. The truth would seem to be that all these men came across Pascal’s path at this time, and were more or less known to him. His allusions to both Miton and Desbarreaux in the Pensées imply this.
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