. Ninety-three . en Avho carried a tricolored flagmoAed out of the wood. They marched up to Avhere the marf|uis stood,and laid the ]>anner at his feet. It was the flag which he had justcaught sight of through the trees. Ueneral, said the young man who had presented to him thesAvord ane-en-Pail. Monseigneur, I am named belong to the Marquis de la Rouarie. It is well, said the marquis. And, calm and grave, he put on tlie scarf. Then he drcAV his sword, and waving it alioAc his head, he cried: U]) ! Long Uac the king ! XINET Y-TilREE. 109 AU rose. Througli tlit^ depths of the; wood sw
. Ninety-three . en Avho carried a tricolored flagmoAed out of the wood. They marched up to Avhere the marf|uis stood,and laid the ]>anner at his feet. It was the flag which he had justcaught sight of through the trees. Ueneral, said the young man who had presented to him thesAvord ane-en-Pail. Monseigneur, I am named belong to the Marquis de la Rouarie. It is well, said the marquis. And, calm and grave, he put on tlie scarf. Then he drcAV his sword, and waving it alioAc his head, he cried: U]) ! Long Uac the king ! XINET Y-TilREE. 109 AU rose. Througli tlit^ depths of the; wood swelled a Avild trium-phant olamoi- : Lo)i(/ live the king ! Long live our marquis ! Long liveLcudenac ! ^ The marquis turned toward ( ravard : How many are you ! Seven thousand. And as they descended the emiuenee, while the peasants clearedaway the furze-bushes to mak<^ a path for the Marquis de Lanteuac,Gavard continued :. Monseigneur, nothing more simple. All can l)e explained in aword. It only needed a spark. The reward offered by the Republic, inrevealing your presence, roused the whole district for the king. Besidesthat, we had been secretly warned by the mayor of Gran^^lle, who isone of our men, the same who saved the Abbé OUivier. Last night theysounded the toseiu. For whom I For you. Ah ! said the nnirquis. And here we aie, pursued Gavard. And you are seven thousand f To-day. We shall be fifteen thousand to-morrow. It is the Bre-ton contingent. When Monsienr Henri de la Rochejacqnelein set outto join the Catholic array, the tocsin was sounded, and in one night six no M xi: t y- three. Ijarishes—Isernay, Coi-qucux, tlie Ecliaubroigiies, the Aubiers, Saiut-Aiibin, and Niicil—lirought liim ten thousand men. They had nomunitions; they found in tlie liouse of a ([uaiTy-niastei sixty pounds ofbhxsting-powdei, and M. de hi Rocliejuccjuelein set off with that. Wewere certain you must be in some pait
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