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"Be quiet, Arthur, do not anger him," whispered Agatha. "It is not
generous, you know, to insult a fallen foe."
"There are no terms to be kept with a traitor, Agatha. If we get the
better of this, Santerre, as I am sure we shall now, you shall see that
I know how to treat a generous foe generously."
When Santerre reached the front of the house, he at once saw that any
attempt on his part to oppose the crowd of armed peasants who were now
close upon him, would be futile. The only mode of escape which appeared
to him at all practicable, was to attempt to ride through them. He gave
the command "to horse," and got so far himself as to mount into his
saddle; but it was of no use, he was surrounded by a crowd of peasants
before he got to the gate, and he soon found himself on foot again, and
unarmed. Some ten or twenty of his men, who were ready to jump into the
saddle at the moment when they were first aware of the approach of the
royalists, escaped, but the remainder in a few minutes found themselves
prisoners in the chateau.


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