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Updated: June 10, 2025
"Pacify yourself, ma'am, pacify yourself," remarked Sedgett, hardened against words abroad by his endurance of blows at home. "Bob Eccles, he's got his hands full, and he, maybe, 'll reach the hulks before my Nic do, yet. And how 'm I answerable for Nic, I ask you?"
That touched me where I lived, and I raised up on my elbow, and said: "Why bless your heart, Miss, if your brother is a prisoner in old Camp Randlll, in Madison, he has got a pic nic. That town was my home before I came down here on this fool job. The people there are the finest in the world.
Ferrol consulted with the officers, advising a truce and parley, offering himself as mediator to induce Nic to surrender. To this the officers assented, but warned him that his life might pay the price of his temerity. He laughed at this. He had been talking, with his head and throat well muffled, and the collar of his greatcoat drawn about his ears.
She turned her head away from her brother and went softly to the window, but not before she had touched the pale hand that lay nerveless upon the coverlet. "It's not feverish," she said to Nic, as if in necessary explanation of the act. She stood at the window for a moment, looking out, then said: "Come here, Nic, and tell me all about it."
Before he left for the front next morning to join his company and march to Papineau's headquarters, Nic came to Ferrol, told him, with rage and disappointment, the story of the highway robbery, and also that he hoped Ferrol would not worry about the Rebellion, and would remain at the Manor Casimbault in any case. "Anyhow," said he, "my mother's half English; so you're not alone.
The soldiers waited anxiously, fearing that Nic would fire, in spite of all; but presently a spot of white appeared at one of the loopholes; then the door was slowly opened. Ferrol entered, and it was closed again. Nicolas Lavilette grasped his hand. "I knew you wouldn't go back on me," said he. "I knew you were my friend. What the devil do they want out there?"
"You you what have you got to do with the Revolution? with Papineau?" "Pah! do you think a Lavilette is the only patriot! Papineau is my friend, and " "Your friend " "My friend. I am carrying his message all through the parishes. Bon'venture is the last almost. The great General Papineau sends you a word, Nic Lavilette here." He drew from his pocket a letter and handed it over.
He suggested a gift to the church in token of gratitude, but her thanksgiving did not take that form. Nic was entirely French at heart, and ignored his mother's nationality. He resented the English blood in his veins, and atoned for it by increased loyalty to his French origin. This was probably not so much a principle as a fancy.
He could waylay Nicolas as he came from the house of the old seigneur, could call to him to throw up his hands in good highwayman fashion, and, well disguised, could get away with the money without being discovered. Or again, he could follow Nic from the Seigneury to the Manor, discover where he kept the money, and devise a plan to steal it.
Nic Machiavel and Monsieur Bodin, both Were of this mind. In vain we have looked for traces of Montaigne's Essays in other dramas that have come down to us from that epoch. That Shakspere must have been conversant with the Italian tongue, Charles Armitage Brown has tried to prove, and according to our opinion he has done so successfully.
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