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Bonaparte rose up as my rival; and cheerfully did I accept him for such, in the council and in the field. But now he is my rival in my family. He looks defiance at me through my children's eyes. It is too much. God give me patience!" Monsieur Pascal did not speak; for what could he say? Pongaudin was no longer safe, as head-quarters for the Commander-in-chief, his family, and guests.
No flying Arab was ever in so many places so nearly at once. Pongaudin, like every other estate which was in friendly hands, was a sort of camp. Here the Commander-in-chief and his officers had their head-quarters; and here he was to be found, at intervals of a few hours.
A council was held one morning, soon after the events just related, whose aspect would have perplexed an old colonist, if he could have looked forward in vision to that day. In a shady apartment of Toussaint's house at Pongaudin sat five men, in whose hands lay the fortunes of the colony; and only one of these men was a white.
He whispered to me, in the piazza at Pongaudin, that, next to himself, you saved the town that many whites owed their lives and their fortunes to you." "I repent," cried Moyse, bitterly, "I repent of my deeds of that day. I repent that any white ever owed me gratitude. I thank God, I have shaken them off, like the dust from my feet! Thank God, the whites are all cursing me now!"
He looked upon his master, now spreading his thin hands over the fire, his furrowed face now and then lighted up by the blaze which sprang fitfully through the smoke he thought of the hall of audience at Port-au-Prince, of the gardens at Pongaudin, of the Place d'Armes at Cap Francais on review-days, of the military journeys and official fetes of the Commander-in-Chief, and he looked upon him now.
And Margot told him, amidst her sobs, that she had done the one only thing she could she had prayed for Bonaparte, as she promised, that night of prophetic woe at Pongaudin. Nothing did he see of Paris but some of the dimly-lighted streets, as he was conveyed, at night, to the prison of the Temple.
Christophe embraced his friend, and was gone. "General Dessalines, to your command in the west! Preserve your line of messengers from Leogane to my gate at Pongaudin, and let me not want for tidings." The tramp of Dessalines' horse next died away. "General La Plume, it is probable that your eye will have to be busier than your hands.
He therefore stopped to tell Afra that his daughters had sent their love to her; that she was going to Pongaudin in a day or two; and that her friends there would be very glad to see her. "Am I really going? Does my father say that I may?" "He is going too: he will be there before you." "My poor Euphrosyne, what will you do?" exclaimed Afra.
It was a strange kind of comfort to Aimee to hear from her mother how long ago her father had foreseen, at Pongaudin, that the day might come when her heart would be torn between her lover and her family. The impending blow had been struck the struggle had taken place: and it only remained now to endure it.
"Vincent gave us a glorious account on Tortuga," said Isaac, "of the welcome you had at Cap. We thought " "I did not see Vincent at Cap." "He was not there; but he knew all " "But, father," said Aimee, "you will see General Vincent. You will see him at Pongaudin. Now that you have done as he did now that you are friends with the French, as he is, you will see him, father?"
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