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"I will do my best," said d'Elbee "as I am called upon; and may the Lord
direct me, that I may fight His battle so as to do honour to His name."
"I think I will name Stofflet," said Cathelineau, consulting with
Bonchamps and de Lescure; "he is a brave man, and though rude in his
manner, he will make perhaps the best soldier among us; already the men
obey him almost more implicitly than any one."
"Do--do!" said Bonchamps; "you cannot do better."
"I think you will be right to do so," said de Lescure, "though I do not
like the man; but the peasants know him, and he is one of themselves.
Yesterday morning I had ample proof of his courage. As you say, he is
a brave man and a good soldier."
Stofflet was then informed that he had been named, and though he
muttered some expressions as to his own want of the necessary
qualifications, he was evidently well pleased that the choice had fallen
on him.
And now the last of the lot was to be chosen. As the two last names had
been mentioned, Denot's brow had grown blacker and blacker.


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