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A couple of men and two or three boys soon hurried round, and Peter was relieved from his charge, and courteously led into the servants' hall by Momont, the grey-headed old butler and favourite servant of the Marquis, and Jacques Chapeau, the valet, groom, and confidential factotum of Larochejaquelin.
"Well, I don't think anybody heard me scream," said Momont: "but there's a difference I know between a man and a woman. 'It's all for my King and my master, said I to myself. Besides a man can die but once, and it's a great thing to die honourably." The old man turned round to receive the approbation, which he considered was due to the sentiment he had expressed, and found that Chapeau was gone.
"But tell us now, Jean Stein," continued Momont, "was Chapeau really second?" "Well then," said Jean, "he was certainly second into the water, but he was so long under it, I doubt whether he was second out he certainly did get a regular good ducking did Chapeau. Why, you came out feet uppermost, Chapeau."
We'll suppose it's the good Cathelineau. 'Friends, he will say; 'dear friends; now is the time to prove ourselves men; now is the moment to prove that we love our King; we will soon shew the republicans that a few sods of turf are no obstacles in the way of Vendean royalists, and then the gallant fellow rushes into the trenches; two thousand brave men follow him, shouting 'Vive le Roi! and you, Momont, are one of the first.
Momont would be dying if he had not some one to give him a true account of what has been done, and I do not know that any one could give him a much better history of it, than myself of course not meaning such as you and M. de Lescure, who saw more of the fighting than any one else; but then you know, M. Henri, you will have too much to do, and too much to say to the Marquis, and to Mademoiselle, to be talking to an old man like Momont."
The very servants, as they moved the dishes, sobbed aloud; and at last, Momont, who had vainly attempted to carry himself with propriety before the others, utterly gave way, and throwing himself on to a chair in the salon, declared that nothing but violence should separate him from his master. "It is five-and-fifty years," said he, sobbing, "since I first waited on Monseigneur.
Touch her not, or or ," and the poor Marquis strove in vain to rise from his chair to his daughter's help. "Momont, Chapeau, Arthur Arthur," he halloed. "My daughter my daughter, oh! my daughter!" No one, however, came to his aid, and Agatha, finding resistance to be in vain, suffered Denot to lead her into the house, without uttering another word.
When a tenant meets the landlord whom he has deserted in the critical momont of the contest the landlord to whom he has solemnly promised his support, and who, perhaps, as a member of the legislature, has advocated his claims and his rights, and who, probably, has been kind and indulgent to him I say, when he meets him afterwards, his shufflings, excuses, and evasions are grievous.
"You couldn't have heard much of the truth then," said Berrier. "We heard," said Chapeau, "how good Cathelineau began by taking three soldiers prisoners." "I had twice more to do with those three prisoners than ever he had," said Peter. "Well; we never heard that," said Momont.
"I don't know, Mademoiselle," said Annot, "but he certainly wasn't so bad last night, for he might have killed them all had he chosen: and instead of that he didn't kill any one, or let any of his party kill them either, only he frightened poor old Momont nearly to death."
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