If he would prize it, I fear he might have it for
the asking for; but I will not throw it at his feet, that he should keep
it loosely for awhile, and then scorn it, and lay it by."
CHAPTER VI
RECRUITING.
On the Monday following the meeting at Durbelliere, Larochejaquelin,
Denot, the Cure of St. Laud, Foret and Cathelineau joined M. de Lescure
at Clisson, and on the day afterwards, the soldiers of the Republic,
when attempting to collect the conscripts at a small town near Clisson,
were resisted and treated as they had been at St. Florent. There was not
quite so much of a battle, for the officer in command knew what was
likely to occur, and not having received any reinforcement of troops,
thought it advisable to give in early in the day, and capitulate with
the honours of war. He was allowed to march his men out of the town,
each man having stipulated that he would not again serve in any
detachment sent into La Vendee for the collection of conscripts; but
they were not allowed to take their arms with them, muskets, bayonets,
and gunpowder being too valuable to the insurgents to be disregarded.
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