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The English indeed give the allied loss as only eight ships, an estimate probably full as much out one way as the French the other. Herbert took his fleet to the Thames, and baffled the enemy's further pursuit by removing the buoys. Tourville's is the only great historical name among the seamen of this war, if we except the renowned privateersmen at whose head was Jean Bart.
M. de Tourville's disappointment when he heard from the Countess Christina the result of her interview with Count Albert, and the reproaches which in that moment of vexation he could not refrain from uttering against the lady for having departed from their plan, and having trusted to the Count, unveiled to her the meanness of his character and the baseness of his designs.
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