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"You remember our bargain, citizen General?" said Denot.
"What bargain?" asked the brewer.
"Why, about the young lady; the girl, you know," replied the other. "No
one is to interfere between me and Agatha Larochejaquelin. She is to be
my prize and my reward."
"I will be as good as my word," said Santerre, "as long as you are true
to yours; but I own I pity the young lady the treatment she is likely
to receive from her lover," and as he spoke, he rode up to the front
door of the house, accompanied by Denot and a company of men on
horseback.
The immediate arrival of republican soldiers in the neighbourhood of
Durbelliere was neither expected, or even feared by the inhabitants of
the chateau, or it would not have been left by Henri, as it had been,
perfectly undefended. The truth was this: the royalists had hitherto
been so very generally successful against the republicans; and that,
when every odds of number, arms, and position had been in favour of
their enemies, that they had learnt to look with contempt upon the
blues, as they called them.


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