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And after that," she added with charming naivete, "I felt as if, having saved Armand's life, he belonged to me and his love for me had made me his." "Then I was arrested," she continued after a slight pause, and at the recollection of what she had endured then her fresh voice still trembled with horror. "They dragged me to prison, and I spent two days in a dark cell, where "
According to his own story, he did not purchase this cabinet; he had never seen it before; it was presumably shipped him by mistake; Armand & Son cable you that it was a mistake; and yet they cite Vantine as the purchaser. There is something twisted somewhere, Lester; just where I'll try to find out." "Which reminds me that Armand's representative hasn't been around yet.
Richmond, September 8, 1780. Sir, As I know the anxieties you must have felt, since the late misfortune to the South, and our latter accounts have not been quite so unfavorable as the first, I take the liberty of enclosing you a statement of this unlucky affair, taken from letters from General Gates, General Stevens, and Governor Nash, and, as to some circumstances, from an officer who was in the action.* Another army is collecting; this amounted, on the 23rd ultimo, to between four and five thousand men, consisting of about five hundred Maryland regulars, a few of Hamilton's artillery, and Porterfield's corps, Armand's legion, such of the Virginia militia as had been reclaimed, and about three thousand North Carolina militia, newly embodied.
On the march Colonel Armand's legion composed the van; Porterfield's light infantry, reinforced by a company of picked men from Stevens' brigade, marching in Indian files, two hundred yards from the road, covered the right flank of the legion, while Major Armstrong's light infantry of North Carolina militia, reinforced in like manner by General Caswell, in the same order, covered the left.
Blakeney could have sworn loudly and lustily, had it been possible to do so without attracting attention. The whole of Armand's history in the past twenty-four hours was perfectly clear to him. The young man had been made free that he might prove a decoy for more important game. His every step was being watched, and he still thought Jeanne Lange in immediate danger of death.
The girls glanced at each other with a little curl of the lip as St. Armand's eyes wandered around. "My father met her at the flag-raising and was charmed with her eyes and her ignorance," said Laurent, rather flippantly. "If I were going to become a citizen of Detroit I should interest myself in this subject of education.
He listened, damping his cigars with his lips. "You will let me know when you wish to go," he said. "But I should like to stay " "That is another matter!" "Stay, that was badly rolled," she cried, seizing on a cigar and devouring all that Armand's lips had touched. "Do you smoke?" "Oh, what would I not do to please you?" "Very well. Go, madame."
Sir Andrew was immediately behind her, and on her right was the table with the five-armed candelabra upon it. Before her mental vision there was absolutely nothing but Armand's face.
But Sir Caspar might persuade Mr. Morgan to buy it for us I'll mention it to him." The two men, meanwhile, under M. Armand's direction, had been stripping the wrappings from the other cabinet, and it finally stood revealed. It, too, was a beautiful piece of furniture, but even my untrained eye could see how greatly it fell below the other. "We shall be very pleased to have Mr.
"All the more noble, you mean. . . . Well! and you would now force me to do some spying work for you in exchange for my brother Armand's safety? Is that it?" "Fie! two very ugly words, fair lady," protested Chauvelin, urbanely. "There can be no question of force, and the service which I would ask of you, in the name of France, could never be called by the shocking name of spying."
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