"
"Ask him the Cure's name, Chapeau," said Marie: "we will go there and
tell him, who we are.'
"If he lives in his own house quietly now, Mademoiselle," answered
Chapeau, "it would be dangerous to do so; he must be one of the
constitutional priests." He asked the man, however, what was the name
of the Cure.
"Why the regular old Cure went away long since, and another was here a
while in his place--"
"Well, and he has gone away now, I suppose?" said Chapeau.
"Why, yes; he went away too a while since, when Cathelineau turned the
soldiers out of St. Florent."
"God bless him," said Chapeau, meaning Cathelineau, and not the priest.
"And is there no one in the house now, my friend? for you see these two
ladies are unable to travel further. If there be a friend living there,
I am sure he will procure them some accommodation."
"And where did the ladies come from?" asked the man.
"You need not be afraid," replied Chapeau, "they, and all belonging to
them, are friends to the good cause;" and then, after considering within
himself for a while, he added, "I will tell you who they are, they are
the wife and sister of M.
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