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Mortain would be the best way by railway, if only trains ran on every part of the line. But between Sourdeval and Tinchebray no trains now run. We rule then that Tinchebray will be best got at by road from Flers, and owing to the gap on the railway, the way by train from Mortain to Flers is by Vire. We thus get a few hours at Vire.
Acadian material is also found scattered through other series of the 'Archives Nationales' and among the manuscripts of the 'Bibliotheque Nationale. At the town of Vire, in France, among the municipal archives, are to be found the papers of Thomas Pichon, a French officer at Louisbourg and Beausejour, who after the fall of Beausejour lived on intimate terms with the British in Nova Scotia.
Turning in confusion to the next, I was surprised to see before me the lady whose lodging I had invaded in my search for Mademoiselle de la Vire she, I mean, who, having picked up the velvet; knot, had dropped it so providentially where Simon Fleix found it.
'Do you know what you are doing, Sieur? 'I think so, I answered. 'Do you know to whom the chateau belongs? 'To the Vicomte de Turenne. 'And that Mademoiselle de la Vire is his relation? 'Yes, I said. 'Mon Dieu! he exclaimed again. And he looked at me open-mouthed. 'What is the matter? I asked, though I had an uneasy consciousness that I knew that I knew very well.
We took a parting sniff of the incense still left in the eastern end of the church's nave; there was a bit of good glass in a window to reward us. Outside the church, on the west from the Petite Place, was a wide outlook over the lovely vale of the Vire, with St. Lo itself twisting and turning in graceful postures down the hillside.
About four miles north of St Lo, the main road drops down into the pleasant little village of Pont Hebert and then passes over the Vire where it flows through a lovely vale.
'Mademoiselle de la Vire? I murmured doubtfully. She bent her head again; that was all. I strove to speak with confidence. 'You will pardon me, mademoiselle, I said, 'if I seem to be abrupt, but time is everything. The horses are standing within a hundred yards of the house, and all the preparations for your flight are made. If we leave now, we can do so without opposition.
One great object in the parts of Mortain is to see the historic site of Tinchebray, so closely connected with Mortain in its history, though the two places are, and seem always to have been, in different divisions, ecclesiastical and civil. We debate whether Tinchebray can be best got at from Mortain, Vire, or Flers.
She was so radiantly dressed, she looked in the firelight more like a fairy than a woman, being of small and delicate proportions; and she seemed in my eyes so different a person, particularly in respect of the softened expression of her features, from the Mademoiselle de la Vire whom I had known and seen plunged in sloughs and bent to the saddle with fatigue, that I doubted still if I had seen aright, and was as far from enlightenment as before.
'Well, he said, coming back from the door, to which he had conducted them, 'what have you to tell me, my friend? She is not with you? 'She is with Mademoiselle de la Vire at Meudon, I answered, smiling. 'And for the rest, she is well and in better spirits. 'She sent me some message? he asked. I shook my head. 'She did not know I should see you, I answered.
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