Jacques Chapeau returned to Echanbroignes with the party of villagers
who had gone from thence to hear Father Jerome, but he did not attach
himself expressly to Annot, indeed he said not a word to her on the way,
but addressed the benefit of his conversation to his male friends
generally; to tell the truth, he was something offended at the warm
admiration which his sweetheart had expressed for Cathelineau. He wasn't
exactly jealous of the postillion, for Annot had never seen him, and
couldn't, therefore, really love him; but he felt that she ought not to
have talked about another man's eyes and whiskers, even though that
other man was a saint and a general. It was heartless, too, of Annot to
say such things at such a time, just as he was going to leave her, on
the eve of battle, and when he had left his own master, and all the
glorious confusion and good living in--at Durbelliere, merely that he
might spend his last quiet day in her company.
It was base of her to say that she had dreamed twice of Cathelineau; and
she was punished for it, for she had to walk home almost unnoticed.
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