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O'Donoghue, Landale, Kermelégan, Savenaye eighteen quarters with this heiress alone, Adrian child, for the descendants of Landale of Pulwick!" And Miss O'Donoghue, overcome by this culminating vision of happiness and perfection, fairly burst into tears. In the midst of this scene, Mr. Landale, after listening mockingly for a few instants, retired with ostentatious discretion.
The mechanical instrument directed by the ingenious mind of Cécile de Savenaye; the discreet minister who, for all his young years, secured the help of some important political sympathiser one day, scoured the country for arms and clothing, powder and assignats another; who treated with smuggling captains and chartered vessels that were to run the gauntlet on the Norman and Breton coast, and supply the means of war to struggling and undaunted loyalists.
As they were crossing the hall there entered suddenly to them, stumbling as he went, René, the young Breton retainer, whom the lord of Savenaye had appointed as squire to his lady upon her travels, and who, since her establishment at Pulwick, had been sent to carry news and money back to Brittany.
'The most crushing defeat, he writes, 'has taken place near the town of Savenaye itself, on your own estate, and your historic house is now, alas! in ruins.... During the last obstinate fight your husband had been wounded, but after performing prodigies of valour such as, it was hoped or trusted, the king should in time hear of he escaped from the hands of his enemies.
Failing the mysterious smuggler, it was to be nobody with the Savenaye heiress and least of all Rupert Landale. Rupert Landale, who, for motives of his own had pleased himself by hunting down Madeleine's lover, had felt, in the keenness of his blood-hound work, something of the blood-hound instinct of destruction and ferocity spring up within him before he had even set eyes on his quarry.
"There are two Demoiselles de Savenaye, Jack; which is it?" Captain Jack halted, turned on his heels, and exclaimed enthusiastically: "To me there is but one one woman in the world Madeleine!"
And accepting again her uncle's arm which, delighted at the solution of the present difficulty, and nodding to Adrian to start the other guests, he hastened to offer her, she preceded the rest into the dining-hall with her usual alert bearing. The behaviour of the Countess of Savenaye, had affected the various spectators in various ways.
"Well, my dear aunt, the fact is, I believe my unhappy brother has never recovered from from his passion for Cécile de Savenaye, that early love affair, so suddenly and tragically terminated well, it seems to have turned his brain!" "Pooh, pooh! why that was twenty years ago. Don't tell me it is in a man to be so constant."
She, from the top of the druidical stone, watches the progress of the day. Her red, parted mouth twitches as she follows the efforts of the men. Behind her, the gars of Savenaye, grasping with angry clutch, some a new musket, others an ancient straightened scythe, gaze fiercely on the scene from under their broad felts.
Here Madame de Savenaye paused a moment and put down the letter from which she had been reading; for the first time since she had begun to speak she grew pale; knitting her black brows and with downcast eyes she went on: "Monsieur de Puisaye says he asks my pardon humbly on his knees for writing such tidings to me, bereaved as I am of all I hold dear, but 'it is meet, he says, 'that the civilised world should know the deeds these followers of liberty and enlightenment have wrought upon gallant men and highborn ladies, and I hold that he says well."
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