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"Official business, no doubt," commented the purser, who had also been watching this little scene. "M. Pigot is one of the best of our officers, and you will find it a pleasure to talk with him. He will no doubt soon be disengaged." "Yes, but meanwhile my esteemed contemporaries will arrive," said Godfrey, with a grimace. "They are on my heels here they are now!"
"I related to M. Pigot last night's occurrences, and begged him to be present at this meeting. He was good enough to agree. I assure you," he added, seeing Grady's look, "that this is M. Pigot, of the Paris Service du Sûreté, and not Crochard." "Oh, yes," said M. Pigot, with a deprecating shrug.
Barrow of the Admiralty came and told us the whole fleet, Barham excepted, were ordered to the North Sea to help to bully the King of Holland, and that Captain Pigot, whose motions are of more importance to us than those of the whole British Navy, sails, as certainly as these things can be prophesied, on Thursday, 27th October. October 26. Here we still are, fixed by the inexorable wind.
"I am myself and greatly humiliated that I should have fallen so readily into the trap which Crochard set for me. But he is a very clever man." "It was certainly a marvellous disguise," I said. "It was more than that it was an impersonation." "Crochard has had occasion to study me," explained M. Pigot, drily. "And he is an artist in whatever he does.
They hastily formed in column and marched down the steep descent to the ferry landing. From the tower of Christ Church, together with General Gage, Clinton had seen the discomfiture of Lord Howe and General Pigot, and, with three hundred men, was hastening to reinforce them, stepping into boats and crossing the river.
"It's a beauty, isn't it?" he asked. M. Pigot smiled a dry smile. "It is the Mazarin," he said, "and is worth three million francs. There is a copy of it at the Louvre." "So that's true, is it?" I asked. "Crochard told us the story." "It is unquestionably true," said M. Pigot. "It is not a secret it is merely something which every one has forgotten."
At the end of two months, they were inspected by Colonel Lawrence and Governor Pigot, and both expressed their highest gratification and surprise at their efficiency, and anticipated great benefits would arise from the organization.
As this eminence overlooked Boston, general Gage determined to drive the provincials from it; and for this purpose, detached major general Howe, and brigadier general Pigot, at the head of ten companies of grenadiers, and the same number of light infantry with a proper proportion of field artillery.
Pigot, Clive describes this affair in the following words: "I cannot help regretting that I ever undertook this expedition. The mortifications I have received from Mr. Watson and the gentlemen of the squadron in point of prerogative are such that nothing but the good of the service could induce me to submit to them.
According to accounts, Governor Bourchier and his Councillors were there when the raiders came, and they would assuredly have been caught had they not managed to make their escape in a boat that was conveniently tied up on the bank of the Cooum river. More than one Governor of Fort St. George has died at Government House, and it was there that Governor Pigot died in extraordinary circumstances.
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