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Jerome also will remain here tonight, and Charles, and Adolphe; we may
not have many merry suppers more, we will at any rate enjoy tonight."
"And Cathelineau," said Henri, "you will not, I trust, be less welcome
in St. Florent tomorrow because I accompany you."
It was then decided that they should all remain there that night, that
de Lescure and Adolphe should return with Marie to Clisson on the
following morning, and that Henri and the priest should accompany Foret
and the postillion to St. Florent, there to make the best arrangement
within their power for the immediate protection of the place.
They were not very merry that evening, but they were by no means
unhappy; as Henri had said they had much to talk of, and they spent an
anxious evening, but each satisfied the other. Cathelineau felt himself
to be in a new world, sitting down at table to eat with such companions
as those around him. The sweet, kind face of Agatha disturbed him most.
It almost unmanned him; he thought that it would be happiness enough for
a life to be allowed to remain unseen where he might gaze on her.
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