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Lawson," ordered the governor, whose stern and somewhat dissatisfied expression of countenance was the only comment on the recommendation for mercy. The order was promptly executed. Once more Halloway left the square, and was reconducted to the cell he had occupied since the preceding night.
The King caused the Emperor to be reconducted by a detachment of the Royal Guard. This excess of ignominy is called "an escort of honor." After the sword the Army. On the 3d of September, Louis Bonaparte handed over to Germany 88,000 French soldiers. "One eagle and two flags. "419 field-guns and mitrailleuses. "139 heavy pieces. "1079 vehicles of all kinds. "60,000 muskets.
Lawson," ordered the governor, whose stern and somewhat dissatisfied expression of countenance was the only comment on the recommendation for mercy. The order was promptly executed. Once more Halloway left the square, and was reconducted to the cell he had occupied since the preceding night.
In the evening we were reconducted to our former house, probably in consequence of the interposition of the Danish and French consuls in our behalf. The reason of our removal to the castle, as given out to us, was in order to retaliate upon us ill treatment which they say their prisoners received from us. A more probable reason was this:
'He won't go out, even in the back-yard, when there's no linen; but when there's linen to keep the neighbours' eyes off, he'll sit there, hours. Hours he will. Says he feels as if it was groves! Mrs Chivery shook her head again, put her apron in a motherly way to her eyes, and reconducted her visitor into the regions of the business. 'Please to take a seat, sir, said Mrs Chivery.
Let us descend to your business room." Levy said not a word until he had reconducted his visitor into his den of destruction, all gleaming with /spoliaria/ in rosewood. Then he said this: "If, Lord L'Estrange, you seek but revenge on Audley Egerton, you need not have uttered those threats. I too hate the man."
As the bells of the fort tolled the tenth hour of morning, the groups of dispersed soldiery, warned by the rolling of the assembly drum, once more fell into their respective ranks in the order described in the opening of this volume, Soon afterwards the prisoner Halloway was reconducted into the square by a strong escort, who took their stations as before in the immediate centre, where the former stood principally conspicuous to the observation of his comrades.
This sally was received with roars of applause, and the unhappy prisoner was reconducted to the place of confinement. That night was a sleepless one.
After rambling about the city the whole afternoon, and seeing but a thousandth part of it, they were reconducted to the royal palace, where Candide sat down to table with his Majesty, his valet Cacambo, and several ladies. Never was there a better entertainment, and never was more wit shown at a table than that which fell from his Majesty.
Lauzun saw Madame de Montespan at Bourbon; but he was so indignant at the terms proposed to him as the condition of his liberty, that after long disputes he would hear nothing more on the subject, and was reconducted to Pignerol as he had been brought. This firmness did not suit the King, intent upon the fortune of his well- beloved bastard.
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