Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 12, 2025
He rushed himself to the window, though, had he known it, he might have gone into the garden through the door, which was close at his hand. He leapt on the path, and was immediately on Henri's track. It was about three hundred yards from the house to the iron gate, and when Westerman was again on his feet, Henri had covered two thirds of the distance.
"I give you my word, citizen General," answered Westerman, "I shall say to you, then and now, whatever I, in the performance of my duty, may think fits and if you deem me impertinent, you may settle that point with the Convention, or, if you prefer it, with myself." "Westerman, you are unfair to General Bourbotte," said Santerre; "he has said nothing which need offend you."
"These are the Clisson woods," said the guide, almost out of breath with the quickness of his motion. "How infernally dark they make it," said Westerman, speaking to himself. "We had light enough till we got here" "And there are the gates," said the guide.
"Cannot I, indeed, citizen General?" said Westerman, rising from his seat and coming into the middle of the room. "I do then utterly despise, scorn, and abominate him, and all such as him. I can conceive nothing in human form more deplorably low, more pitiably degraded, than such a poor subservient slave as he was." "There, Westerman, you are grossly wrong," said Santerre.
Every one of the royalists, on the other hand fired, with a clear aim, and almost invariably with deadly effect. Westerman felt that it would be useless to pursue them; his soldiers, moreover, were already flying without orders.
Westerman cannot collect his men so as to force a march as far as Clisson tomorrow; but before a week is over, I know that the chateau will be a ruin." "Will you leave the furniture?" said Henri. "Yes," answered de Lescure; "furniture, horses, cattle, corn everything but my wife and child. Let everything go: am I not giving it to my King?"
"I'll tell you what we must do: we must leave this district altogether; we must leave it to be ravaged by fire and sword; we must leave it to Westerman, to wreak his vengeance on it, and go to Chatillon, taking with us every armed man that will follow us. We cannot stand an invasion here in the south." "Heavens, Charles! what do you mean?
"What surety do you mean to offer us, citizen Denot," said Westerman, "that you are acting with us in good faith?" "Do I not give you my life?" said Denot. "What other surety can I give, or can you require? What am I, or what are the royalists to gain by my proving false?" "You say truly," answered Westerman; "you give us your life as a surety for your good faith to us.
When the republicans made their appearance there, she had fled with the other servants, but she had hung about the house, and about an hour and a half before Westerman left the place she learnt, through some of the soldiers, his intention of attacking Clisson that night.
Westerman and the two latter were in uniform, and the fact of their having arms, was only in keeping with their general appearance: but the other two were in plain clothes, and their pistols, which were lying among the glasses on the table, and the huge swords which stood upright against their chairs, gave a hideous aspect to the party, and made them look as though they were suspicious of each other.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking