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"I think we should leave this early tomorrow morning, and move across
the country as though we were going to Montreuil; we shall so come on
the Montreuil road about a league from Saumur, and not very far, that
is about half a league, from the camp at Varin."
"And then, Cathelineau, will you attack the camp tomorrow evening?" said
de Lescure.
"I think not, M. de Lescure; but I would make a feint to do so, and I
would thus keep the republicans on the alert all night; a small body of
our men may, I think, in that way fatigue the masses of the republicans
in the camp--we might harass them the whole night, which will be dark
from eleven till near three; and then with the earliest sunrise our real
attack should be made."
"Bravo, Cathelineau!" said Henri; "and then fall on them when they are
in want of sleep."
"Yes," said de Lescure, "and they will have learnt to think that our
attacks in that quarter are only feints."
"Such may be our good luck, M. de Lescure; at any rate, if you think of
nothing better, we may try it.


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