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You did all you could to make us afraid the night before we struck for liberty. You " "Liar!" screamed Poivre: "to-morrow I will prove it on your great big carcase. Valentin, my friend, come with me." A gentleman of not very prepossessing appearance responded to the call. Most of the prisoners were delighted. It was the prospect of a little amusement, of which they did not enjoy much.
The Portuguese missionaries found these people very tractable converts, and very large bodies of them are very easily governed by a single Malay chief, as at Landa, Songo, and Matan. I have seen very large bodies of them at Kimanis and Maludu, but none of them possessing the ferocity of a Malay. Poivre, "Malacca was a country well peopled, and was consequently well cultivated.
For as the 24th February dawned, and the grey light broke over the slopes of the Côte du Poivre, the Hill of Talou, and the winding Meuse gliding along between the hills which formed the main French positions to the west and to the east of it, the enemy guns, which had not rested for many hours since the outbreak of this gigantic conflict, broke out with terrific energy and commenced to deluge the French positions.
This distribution was afterwards undertaken and effected by the Archbishop of Aix, the Bishop of Chartres, the Marquis de la Fayette, the Duc de la Rochefoucauld, the Comte de Mirabeau, Monsieur Necker, the Marquis de Condorcet, Messieurs Pétion de Villeneuve, Bergasse, Clavière and Brissot, and by the Marchioness de la Fayette, Madame Necker, and Madame de Poivre, the latter of whom was the widow of the late intendant of the Isle of France.
They were sitting together at supper, some of them, a few evenings before their turn came to leave, when the remark was made that "the little corporal" would never have another chance, but was driven into a hole at last. "Think you so?" replied Poivre; "I am not so sure of that. It must be a curious hole that man cannot get out of sooner or later.
And towards the east, towards the apex of the salient, outlying advance-parties of the French had been driven in by sheer weight of guns and numbers, and were now back on the heights of the Meuse, their line drawn from that held by their comrades in the neighbourhood of Louvemont, close to the Côte du Poivre, round about Douaumont and its village, and so to Vaux and south of it.
He has the cleverness of the devil, if there be one." "Would you fight again for him, Poivre, if he did come out of his hole?" "Not I," said he, "if I could help it. Some of us have had enough of him. We begin to think we have not been fighting for "France and glory," but for him, and he does not care two pins for us.
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