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Marie, however, was not long in inducing Annot to reveal to her
Chapeau's little plan of taking his own wife over to Durbelliere to wait
upon his master's wife, and she, moreover, promised that, as far as she
herself was concerned, she would consent to the arrangement, if, which
she expressly inserted, she should ever marry M. Larochejaquelin.
"But an't you engaged to him, Mademoiselle?"
"Well, Annot," answered she, "as you have told me so much, I don't mind
telling you that I am. But it will be long, probably, before I am
married, if ever I am. Men have other things to think of now than
marriage, and, alas! women too. We must wait till the wars are over,
Annot."
"But I thought the wars were over now, Mademoiselle. Haven't they got
that Santerre prisoner up at Durbelliere?"
"There's much, very much, I fear to do yet, and to suffer, before the
wars will be really over," said Madame de Lescure. "Heaven help us, and
guide us, and protect us! Come, Marie, let us go to rest, for I trust
Charles will send for us early in the morning.


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