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About two o'clock in the morning I was fetched out of the stack by a Parisian of quality sent by my friend De Brissac, and carried on a hand-barrow to a barn, where I was again buried alive, as it were, in hay for seven or eight hours, when M. de Brisac and his lady came, with fifteen or twenty horse, and carried me to Beaupreau.
This mention of my mercurial friend brought back so vividly to my mind the recent scene in our berth that I was as the newspaper reporters say "risibly affected," a circumstance which did not fail to attract general attention. Captain Brisac looked both disconcerted and annoyed. "What is it, Mr Chester? What have I said to afford you so much amusement?" he asked.
Somers; "but I think that you had never less reason than at this moment to suspect me of an intention of quarrelling with you I came here with a very different design. May I know the cause of your distress?" Emilie hesitated, for she did not know how to explain the cause without imputing blame either to Mrs. Somers or to her mother she could only say "M. de Brisac " "What!" cried Mrs.
It was even so, for when I went aft to the cabin, in compliance with the captain's invitation, a glance aloft revealed him comfortably perched on the crosstrees, from which commanding position he reminded me pantomimically of the potent charm to be found in a comic song. The dinner-party, that evening, consisted of Captain Brisac, Mr Sennitt, old Bolus the doctor, and myself.
He brought letters for Madame and Mademoiselle de Bouillon and myself, by which we were assured that M. de Turenne and his army, which was without dispute the finest at that time in all Europe, had declared for us; that Erlach, Governor of Brisac, had with him 1,000 or 1,200 men, who were all he had been able to seduce; that my dear friend and kinsman, the Vicomte de Lamet, was marching directly to our assistance with 2,000 horse; and that M. de Turenne was to follow on such a day with the larger part of the army.
The review took place and the strength of the Burgundian mercenaries was duly displayed to the Alsatians, but no satisfactory assurances were given to Brisac and the other towns that their suzerain would restrict his measures of taxation and administration to the stipulations of the contract of St. Omer.
Brisac to Guingamp, hiding by day and walking by night, and at Guingamp called at the house of an onion-merchant, to whom I had been directed.
He brought letters for Madame and Mademoiselle de Bouillon and myself, by which we were assured that M. de Turenne and his army, which was without dispute the finest at that time in all Europe, had declared for us; that Erlach, Governor of Brisac, had with him 1,000 or 1,200 men, who were all he had been able to seduce; that my dear friend and kinsman, the Vicomte de Lamet, was marching directly to our assistance with 2,000 horse; and that M. de Turenne was to follow on such a day with the larger part of the army.
"This is a favourite air of mamma's," said Emilie, "and I thought that she would be pleased by my choosing it." "Yes," replied Mrs. Somers, in her constrained voice, "I remember that the Countess de Coulanges and her friend or your friend M. de Brisac, were charmed with this air, when you sang it the other night.
"Heaven be praised!" cried Emilie, "I shall never more see M. de Brisac. My mother, I am sure, will no longer wish me to marry him." "No, in truth," said the countess, "it would now be a most unequal match, and one to which he is by no means entitled. How fortunate it is that I had not given him my promise! After all, your aversion to him, child, was quite providential.
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