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One glance at her flushed cheeks and triumphant eyes told me that she was confident in her own success. 'I told you that I would find him, Cousin Louis! she cried; 'I have come straight to you, because you said that you would help in the taking of him. 'Mademoiselle insists upon it that I should not use soldiers, said Savary, shrugging his shoulders. 'No, no, no, she cried with vehemence.
The planks of the bridge were not yet fastened and were wobbling under the feet of our infantrymen, when the colonel of the 14th, M. Savary, brother of the Emperor's aide-de-camp, risked crossing on horseback, in order to put himself at the head of his men; but he had scarcely reached the bank when a Cossack, arriving at the gallop, plunged a lance into his heart and disappeared into the woods!
His Spanish counselors advised a return; Savary laughed at such scruples, and was not only voluble in verbal commentaries on the ambiguous text, but profuse in promises. On the twentieth Ferdinand VII of Spain, as his supporters called him, was at the gates of Bayonne.
Savary succeeded to the ministry without any other resources than his personal sagacity and the activity of the police. Fouche had destroyed all traces of his administration. "I had not a great deal to burn, but all that I had I have burnt," said the disgraced minister, when the emperor sent to demand his papers. Many people breathed more freely when they heard this news.
'Surrender, Toussac! cried Savary. 'It is useless to attempt to escape us. A hoarse laugh sounded from behind the door. 'I am not a man who surrenders. But I will make a bargain with you. I have a small matter of business to do to-night. If you will leave me alone, I will give you my solemn pledge to surrender at the camp to-morrow. I have a little debt that I wish to pay.
Rapp and Savary, the aides-de-camp of Desaix, remained plunged in the most despairing grief beside the body of their chief, whom they called their father, rather to express his unfailing kindness to them than the dignity of his character. Out of respect to the memory of his friend, the general-in-chief, although his staff was full, added these two young officers in the quality of aides-de-camp.
Nobody took any notice of her and Philip, she thought; they stood there waiting and waiting why, there was M. Savary dit Detricand in the doorway, waving a handkerchief at her, and saying: "I've found it I've found it!" and she awoke with a start. Her heart was beating hard, and for a moment she was dazed; but presently she went to sleep again, and dreamed once more.
The union of La Marche and Angoulême largely increased Count Hugh's power, and he showed perfect impartiality in pursuing his own interests by holding a balance between his stepson and the King of France. Against him neither Savary nor the Poitevin communes could contend with success.
When one is called on to regenerate a state, there are directly opposite principles by which one must necessarily be guided." Claude Francois de Malet, born at Dole, 1754. In 1806 was a general officer, and was dismissed the service. Plotting against the Emperor, he was imprisoned from 1808 to 1812. He made Savary prisoner, and shot General Hullin.
"When Napoleon saw the matter in its true light," said Savary, "when I proved to him the palpable existence of the odious machination, he could not find terms to express his indignation. 'What baseness, what horrible villainy! he exclaimed; and gave me orders to arrest and bring to Paris the infamous writer of the letter; and you may rely upon it his orders shall be promptly obeyed."
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