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Florent, but why shouldn't he, Berrier, be
welcomed, and raised also? He couldn't see that Cathelineau had done
more than he had himself. He was the first man to resist; he had been
the first hero, and yet he was left for half an hour to lead about a
horse, an ass, and an old mule, as though he were still the ostler at
an auberge, and then he was merely taken into the servants' hall, and
asked to eat cold meat, while Cathelineau was brought into a grand room
upstairs to talk to lords and ladies; this made Peter fidgety and
uncomfortable; and when he heard, moreover, that Cathelineau was to sup
upstairs at the same table with the Marquis and the ladies, all his
pleasure in the revolt was destroyed, he had no taste for the wine
before him, and he wished in his heart that he had joined the troops,
and become a good republican. He could not bear the aristocratic foppery
of that Cathelineau.
"And were you a conscript yourself, Peter Berrier?" said Jacques
Chapeau.
"Of course I was," said Peter. "Why, haven't you heard what the revolt
of St.


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