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Besides, how could they hope for success against the arms of a whole
nation supported by a despotic government. His friends talked sanguinely
of aid from England, from Austria, and from Prussia; but he feared that
that aid would come too late, after their houses were burnt, and their
fields destroyed; after the best among them had fallen; after their
children had been murdered; when the country should be depopulated, and
nothing but the name of La Vendee left.
With all these fears around his heart, and yet with a firm determination
to give himself entirely to the cause in which he was embarked, de
Lescure rode home to tell his young wife, to whom he was but barely two
years married, that he must not only leave her, and give up the life so
congenial to both their tastes, which they had lately led; but that he
was going to place himself in constant danger, and leave her and all he
loved in danger also.
"You must be very good to Victoriana," he said to his sister; "you must
be very good to each other, Marie, for you will both have much to bear.


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