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The pillagers had not retired when the approach of the National Guard of Remoulins, coming too late to the assistance of the Marquis, was discovered by one of the ruffians, and they fled in every direction to escape the punishment they merited. When Coursegol, wild with anxiety, reached the château on the day that followed this frightful scene, only the walls remained standing.
The woman of whom we speak was at that moment very near the famous Pont du Gard which is only a short distance from the spot on which the little village of Lafous now stands, and directly opposite Remoulins, a town of considerable size situated on the right bank of the river and at a point where the highway from Nîmes to Avignon intersects the road leading up from the villages that dot the river banks.
Nothing could be heard but a vigorous fusillade, accompanied by the shouts of the besiegers and the besieged. These last were so few in number that they dare not dispatch one of their little company to Remoulins for aid.
They also knew that the isolated situation of the château afforded its inmates little chance of succor, and that, if they could succeed in surprising it, they could accomplish their work of destruction before the inhabitants of Remoulins and the surrounding villages could come to the aid of the Marquis and his household.
"If Monsieur le Marquis would but grant my request," said Coursegol, timidly. "What is your request?" "I have no wife, no child. The little apartment that I occupy is very gloomy when M. Philip is not with me. If you will consent to it, Dolores shall be my daughter." "Your daughter, but who would take care of her?" "Oh! I will attend to that. I know some very worthy people in Remoulins.
The Marquis frequently visited the little town of Remoulins, that lay a few miles from the château on the other side of the Gardon, and he still had a few warm friends there, some of whom had desired to send him to the États Généraux. They, too, promised to come to his assistance in case of an attack on the castle. If the former masters of Chamondrin had been tyrants this was now forgotten.
I shall request the curé of Remoulins to allow her body to repose in his cemetery. I will now inform the authorities of what has occurred." With these words, the Marquis left the room; and Coursegol, after covering the face of the dead with reverent hands, knelt and prayed for her as well as for the orphan who had been confided to his care. The Château de Chamondrin was scarcely a century old.
The household at Chamondrin chanced to be astir late that evening. The Marquis, Philip, Antoinette, the curé of Remoulins and two or three landed proprietors living in the vicinity were in the drawing-room. After such a day of excitement, no one could think of sleep. They were discussing the events that had occurred at Nîmes, and deploring the death of the victims.
Provence and Languedoc were shaken to their centres. In all the region round about the Gardon at Nîmes, in Beaucaire in Arles, in Remoulins political clubs were formed. The condition of the peasantry, who had previously been condemned to a sort of slavery, suddenly changed.
The Marquis was deposited upon a hastily improvised bed; the Abbé Peretty, assisted by Philip and Antoinette, attempted to dress his wound; and two men started in the hope of reaching Remoulins by a circuitous route, in order to bring a physician and call upon the inhabitants of the village for aid. An hour went by; it seemed a century.
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