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The immediate effect of this was the desertion of two thousand Moors sent to Renault's assistance by Nandkumar the faujdar of Hugli. A continuous bombardment was kept up until the nineteenth, when Admiral Watson arrived from Calcutta with the Kent, the Tyger, and the Salisbury. Next morning an officer was despatched in a boat to summon Renault once more to surrender.
"Grant, did you ever see my little sweetheart, Jinny Carvel?" The Captain sighed. "She ain't little any more, and she eighteen to-day." Captain Grant clapped his hand to his forehead. "Say, Lige," said he, "that reminds me. A month or so ago I pulled a fellow out of Renault's area across from there. First I thought he was a thief.
"But we are caught in the stream when we are young and eager. The world seems so big and rich if you but reach out your hand to take." "And from its feast you took what?" She was silent, self-convicted; for she had taken chaff! ...Nevertheless, it was not dead within her the self. It cried out under Renault's pitiless scorn for satisfaction, for life.
Renault's voice insensibly softened from his tone of harsh invective as he added: "And now you know what I meant when I said that a neurasthenic world needed a new religion!" So he had remembered her, knew her all the time! "But you can't get it because you need it "
And with a wistful desire to know what it was, the religion that made Renault live as he did, Isabelle dropped once more to sleep. When Isabelle presented herself at the doctor's house the next morning, as he had suggested, the little black-haired nurse met her and made Renault's excuses. The doctor was occupied, but would try to join her later.
So far then from the besiegers' side; Renault's description of the fight is as follows: "The three largest vessels, aided by the high-water of the equinoctial tides, which, moreover, had moved the vessels sunk in the narrow passage, passed over the sunken ships, which did not delay them for a moment, to within half pistol shot of the Fort, and opened fire at 6 a.m.
But all at once a wagon backed and bumped against the curb in front of him, and Eliphalet's head dropped as if it had been struck by the wheel. Above him a sash screamed as it opened, and he heard Mr. Renault's voice say, to some person below: "Is that you, Capitaine Grant?" "The same," was the brief reply. "I am charmed that you have brought the wood. I thought that you had forgotten me."
Hopper walked around the block, arriving again opposite the Carvel house, and beside Mr. Renault's, which was across from it. Eliphalet had inherited the principle of mathematical chances. It is a fact that the discreet sometimes take chances. Towards the back of Mr.
Tears fell, tears of pity for the dead child, for herself, for the fine-wrought agony of life. "But I know!" Renault's voice, low and calm, came as it were from a shut corner of his heart. "I have felt and I have seen yes, Defeat, Despair, Regret all the black ghosts that walk." Isabelle raised her eyes questioningly.
Across the street Alphonse, M. Renault's butler, was depositing bags and bundles on the steps. M. Renault himself bustled out into the rain, gesticulating excitedly. Spying her at the window, he put his hands to his mouth, cried out something, and ran in again. Virginia flung open the sash and listened for the dreaded sound of drums.
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