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It was a compliment paid to the precocity of his extraordinary mathematical talent, and the steadiness of his application. While at Paris he attracted the same notice as at Brienne; and among other society, frequented that of the celebrated Abbe Raynal, and was admitted to his literary parties.
"I really do not understand you, sir. How can I undo what is done?" "Why, of course you cannot. And therefore I stand here ready to forgive all that is past; not without a struggle, which you don't seem to appreciate." Camille was now utterly mystified. Raynal continued, "But of course it is upon condition that you consent to heal the wound you have made.
The republic proclaimed the general liberty of the blacks. An unerring voice told me that my allegiance was thenceforward due to the republic. The blacks in their new condition wanted a leader. They chose me to lead them to be the chief predicted by Raynal, as General Laveaux declared. Inspired by this call, I entered into the service of France.
I am at present in the solitude of Bethlehem, which the Abbe Raynal has described so minutely.
She gave a faint scream and drew back with a shudder at the sight of their persecutor. She even felt faintish at him, as women will in such cases. Not being very quick at interpreting emotion, Raynal noticed her alarm, but not her repugnance; he saluted her with military precision by touching his cap as only a soldier can, and said rather gently for him, "A word with you, mademoiselle."
His coquetry consisted in drinking with the carters. No one had ever succeeded in rendering him drunk. He smoked a big pipe. He wore a blouse, and under his blouse an old black coat. He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. There were certain names which he often pronounced to support whatever things he might be saying, Voltaire, Raynal, Parny, and, singularly enough, Saint Augustine.
The command had passed from the hands of Montcalm into those of the general who was afterwards a marshal and Duke of Levis. He resolved, in the spring of 1760, to make an attempt to recover Quebec. "All Europe," says Raynal, "supposed that the capture of the capital was an end to the great quarrel in North America.
Her mother's salon had been the coenaculum of the philosophy of the 18th century. Voltaire, Rousseau, Buffon, D'Alembert, Diderot, Raynal, Bernardin de Saint Pierre, Condorcet had played with this child, and fostered her earliest ideas. Her cradle was that of the Revolution. Her father's popularity had played about her lips, and left there an inextinguishable thirst for fame.
"Difficulties," shouted Raynal with merry disdain; "there are none, unless you sit down and make them; we do more difficult things than this every day of our lives: we passed the bridge of Arcola in thirteen minutes; and we had not the consent of the enemy, as we have yours have we not?"
We are all of one mind, and I do think I have secured your happiness. It will not come in a day, perhaps, but it will come. So then in one little fortnight you marry Monsieur Raynal." "What!" said Josephine, "you have actually settled that?" "Yes." "But are you sure I can make him as happy as he deserves?" "Positive." "I think so too; still" "It is settled, dear," said Rose soothingly.
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