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Florent was about?"
"Well; we have heard something about it," said Momont; "but we didn't
exactly hear your name mentioned."
"You couldn't have heard much of the truth then," said Berrier.
"We heard," said Chapeau, "how good Cathelineau began by taking three
soldiers prisoners."
"I had twice more to do with those three prisoners than ever he had,"
said Peter.
"Well; we never heard that," said Momont.
"But we heard," said Chapeau, "how Cathelineau led a few of the townsmen
against a whole regiment of soldiers, and scattered them through the
town like chaff."
"Scattered them like chaff!" said Peter.
"And we heard," said Momont, "how he stormed the barracks, slaughtered
all the soldiers, and dragged the Colonel with his own hand through the
barrack window."
"Through the barrack window!" repeated Peter, with an air intended to
throw discredit on the whole story.
"And we heard," said Gather's confidential maid, "how he laid his hand
upon the cannon and charmed it, so that it would not go off, though the
fiery torch was absolutely laid upon the gunpowder.


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