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The German,
however, in his anxiety to get through the gate, omitted to fire, though
he had the pistol in his hand; he seized hold of the iron bars and shook
them impotently: strong as he was, the gate was much too firm to be
moved by his strength; the wall was twelve feet high, and utterly beyond
his power to scale without a ladder.
He felt that he was foiled, and returned to the chateau to wreak his
vengeance upon the inhabitants who might be left there, and on the
furniture and walls of the house itself.
Henri pursued his way unopposed, and at the appointed spot, a little
greensward surrounded by seven lime trees, he found his cousin and the
rest of the party waiting for him, as well as Francois with the waggon.
"Is she safe--is she alive?" asked Madame de Lescure, almost frantic
with grief and fear.
"She is alive, and I believe unhurt," said Henri; "but I fear she is
senseless. She is quite undressed, too, as I was obliged to leave the
cloak in which I had covered her, in the dying grasp of a trooper whom
I killed.


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