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"Admiral de Chateau-Renault was so indecisive as to obey this directive, and the galleons entered the Bay of Vigo. "Unfortunately this bay forms an open, offshore mooring that's impossible to defend.
The Spaniards, hoping to escape, steered different courses, but each were pursued by two British frigates, which, before long coming up with them, compelled them to haul down their colours. Fortunately, a breeze coming off the land, the captors with their prizes were enabled to stand off the coast, just in time to save themselves from being attacked by four large ships, which came out of Vigo.
I could catch names now and then, Monsieur's, M. Étienne's, Grammont's, but the hero of the tale was myself. "You let him to the duke?" Mayenne cried presently. At the harsh censure of his voice, Lucas's rang out with the old defiance: "With Vigo at his back I did. Sangdieu! you have yet to make the acquaintance of St. Quentin's equery. A regiment of your lansquenets couldn't keep him out."
Monsieur Vigo had pointed out to me that day the gloomy, heavy-walled prison in the rear of the Cabildo, ay, and he had spoken of its instruments of torture. What could the Vicomtesse want? I fell at length into a fevered sleep, and awoke, athirst, with the light trickling through my lattices. Contrary to Madame Gravois's orders, I had opened the glass of my window.
"How can I serve you, messieurs?" "Hain't the Congress got authority here?" said one. "I am happy to say," answered Monsieur Vigo, rubbing his hands, "for I think much of your principle." "Then," said the man, "we come here to trade with Congress money. Hain't that money good in Kaskasky?" There was an anxious pause. Then Monsieur Vigo's eyes twinkled, and he looked at me.
Contrary winds prevented the fleet from proceeding to the Azores, and nothing more was accomplished but the destruction of Vigo, while in the subsequent storms a number of ships were damaged or lost. The business was a failure, though it had given convincing proof that even in Spanish territory much more on the seas Spain was incapable of taking the offensive.
The rest of the fleet held with Generall Drake, who though he were two dayes before put vpon those Ilands, cast off againe to sea for the Acores: but remembering how vnprouided he was for iourney and seeing that he had lost company of his great ships, returned for Bayon, and came in there that night in the euening where he passed vp the riuer more than a mile aboue Vigo.
M. Étienne cried. "You would do nothing of the sort. Was it to win glory you stayed three years in that hole, St. Quentin?" "I had no choice, monsieur. My master was there." "And my mistress is here! You may save your breath, Vigo; I know what I shall do. The eloquence of monk Christin wouldn't change me." "What is your purpose, M. Étienne?" Vigo asked.
"That is well," said Vigo, carefully wiping off the knife. "Yon is the scoundrel," Grammont gasped, pointing to Lucas. "He will die a worse death than you," said Vigo. Grammont looked from the one to the other of us, the sullen rage in his face fading to a puzzled helplessness. He said fretfully: "Which which is Étienne?" He could no longer see us plain. M. le Comte came forward silently.
"Clarice Vigo has gone to fetch Angélique, and then we shall be ready." Behind the church, speaking all together like a chorus of blackbirds, the girls were clustered, out of the bonfire's light. French and English voices debated. "Oh, I wouldn't do such a thing." "Your mother did it when she was a girl." "But the young men may find it out and follow." "Then we'll run."
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