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An adverse wind detained them a day or two, after every arrangement was completed; but so great was La Tour's eagerness to depart, that he embarked at sun-set, on the first appearance of a favourable change, hoping to weigh anchor by the dawn of day, or sooner, should the night prove clear, and the wind shift to the desired point.
In this interval, La Tour's attention was attracted by the sound of light footsteps advancing along the passage; and immediately a delicate female figure passed hastily on towards a flight of stairs, not far from the spot where he was standing.
He knew that Mad. de la Tour was warmly attached to the protestant cause, and that her influence was extensive; the establishment of the true-faith, therefore, seemed to depend on La Tour's support and assistance; and if some measures were not soon adopted to procure his freedom, D'Aulney would probably detain him long in confinement, or perhaps send him to France, to await the slow process of a trial.
These cakes were all that Virginia had it in her power to give away, but she conferred the gift in so delicate a manner as to add tenfold to its value. In the first place, Paul was commissioned to take the cakes himself to these families, and get their promise to come and spend the next day at Madame de la Tour's.
Le Rossignol crawled reluctantly up to stand in her dots of moccasins. "Yes, your highness" "Ladyship," repeated Claude La Tour's widow, to whom the sting was forever fresh, reminding her of a once possible regency. "But have you heard about the woman that was brought into the fortress before Madame Bronck went away?" "What of her?" "The Swiss says she comes from D'Aulnay."
Night closed in prematurely; the ships parted company, and, in the increasing darkness, there was little prospect of joining again; nor was it possible for either to ascertain the situation of its partner. La Tour's vessel had out-sailed the other, through the day; and he had so often navigated the bay, and rivers of the coast, that every isle and headland were perfectly familiar to him.
And as the synaptase is certainly neither organized nor alive, but a mere chemical substance, Liebig treated Cagniard de la Tour's discovery with no small contempt, and, from that time to the present, has steadily repudiated the notion that the decomposition of the sugar is, in any sense, the result of the vital activity of the Torula.
A physical basis was afforded for the view by Cagniard de la Tour's experiments in 1822, proving that, under conditions of great heat and pressure, the vaporous state was compatible with a very considerable density.
The garrison at Fort la Tour hailed her arrival with acclamations of delight for they had begun to despair of her return. Charnisay's attempt to reduce la Tour to subjection was foiled for the time being, but his opportunity came a little later. In February, 1645, he learned of la Tour's absence and that his garrison numbered only fifty men. He determined at once to attack the fort.
"That's true," cried Madame de Connal, starting up "I had forgot it so am I this fortnight I may as well go to the opera, too, and I can carry you to Madame de la Tour's I owe her a five minutes' sitting though she is un peu precieuse. And what can you find in that little cold Madame de la Brie do you like ice?" "He like to break de ice, I suppose," said Mademoiselle.
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