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"And then, fire to the episcopal villa and to the sack!" "Freedom to the slaves!" "We shall take with us the young girls, who will follow us gladly!" "Long live love and the Vagrery!" cried Ronan, saying which he struck up the song: "My father was a Bagauder, and I a Vagre am; born under the green foliage as any bird in May. "Where is my mother? I do not know, forsooth! "A Vagre has no wife.
Ronan was the first to set forth, in 1863, the historical and critical problem in the new spirit, in a way that the wide public which read French understood. When we come to speak of the scientific movement it is not easy to say where the leadership lay. Many Englishmen were in the first rank of investigators and accumulators of material.
The girl's head drooped on her breast, and with her back sustained by the trunk of the tree she fell into profound sleep. "Poor child!" said Ronan as he covered her with his cloak. "She is overcome with fatigue. May her sleep give her rest and strength!" "Ronan," observed the hermit fastening a penetrating look upon the Vagre, "the chant of Hena made you weep " "It is true, good hermit."
A voice was heard saying: "Is that you, Ronan?" "I and mine. Lead, Simon, you good servant of the episcopal villa! Lead on, we follow." "We shall have to wait." "Why delay?" "Count Neroweg is still with the bishop, with his leudes." "All the better! We shall capture a fox and a wild-boar at once! A superb hunt!" "The count has with him twenty-four well armed leudes." "We are thirty!
"Bishop," Ronan proceeded, "has thy exalted truthfulness anything to answer to the accusations of thy slaves?" "They are all damned criminals, sacrilegious wretches who will have to answer for their crimes when they appear before the throne of God, on the day of last judgment. Ever after they will gnash their teeth " "Bishop, has thy exalted purity nothing else to say than utter insults?"
"No, little Odille! it is barely midnight; I know not what may be happening at the burg; all the Franks who were watching us left their posts before our prison and followed one of their men who came after them; all ran towards the burg brandishing their arms." "Ronan, my brother, listen in the direction of the seigniorial mansion it seems to me I hear an odd noise proceeding from that direction."
And so they were all sentenced to-day?" "The mahl assembled at noon. The King's son and our holy bishop were present. Ronan the Vagre and the hermit-laborer were first put to the torture." "Then they must have denied that they had run the Vagrery, did they?" "No. Ronan, the accursed bandit, on the contrary, boasted that he was a Vagre." "Why, then, the torture?"
Helm glanced at him curiously; then his gaze, always gravely thoughtful, wandered back to me. "We are to evacuate the Fort," he said quietly. "Evacuate?" echoed the Frenchman, as if the word were displeasing. "'T is a strange military act, in my judgment, and one filled with grave peril. Does such decision come from a council?" "There has been no council," broke in Ronan, hastily.
Women and children, all of whom had at first fled with fear into their hovels, now emerged again, and one of the mothers said to Ronan: "Do you want to know the road? I shall show it to you." "Are you running away from the leudes of the seigneurs?" said another. "None has passed this way; you can march on in safety."
"Come, my Vagres," said Ronan; "come, day is dawning. Let us pack our booty on the bishop's wagons, and on the march! What a fine day will this be for the folks of this neighborhood!" And stepping towards the little slave girl, who, seated on the steps of the altar had quietly watched and listened to all that took place: "Poor child, you are without father or mother, will you come with us?
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