We cannot follow the Vendeans
farther in their gallant struggle, but we part from them, while they
still confidently expect that success which they certainly deserved, and
are determined to deserve that glory, which has since been so fully
accorded to them.
In the foregoing pages much fiction has been blended with history, but
still the outline of historical facts has been too closely followed to
allow us now to indulge the humanity of our readers by ascribing to the
friends we are quitting success which they did not achieve, or a state
of happiness which they never were allowed to enjoy. It would be easy
to speak of the curly haired darlings, two of course, who blessed the
union of Henri Larochejaquelin and Marie de Lescure; and the joy with
which they restored their aged father to the rural delights of his
chateau at Durbelliere. We might tell of the recovery of that modern
Paladine, Charles de Lescure, and of the glorious rebuilding of the
house of Clisson, of the ecclesiastical honours of Father Jerome, and
of the happy marriage, or with more probability, the happier celibacy
of the divine Agatha.
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