"
"I am told that she still lives in Poitou, and I think I heard that,
some years after M. de Lescure's death, she married M. Louis
Larochejaquelin."
"She did so--the younger brother of my own dear lord. He was a boy in
England during our hot work in La Vendee."
"Yes; and he served in an English regiment."
"So I had heard, Monsieur; but you know, don't you, that he also has now
fallen."
"Indeed no!--for years and years I have heard nothing of the family."
"It was only two months since: he fell last May at the head of the
Vendeans, leading them against the troops which the Emperor sent down
there. The Vendeans could not endure the thoughts of the Emperor's
return from Elba. M. Louis was the first to lift his sword, and Madame
is, a second time, a widow. Poor lady, none have suffered as she has
done!" He then paused a while in his narrative, but as the stranger did
not speak, he continued: "but of M. Henri, of course, Monsieur, you
heard the fate of our dear General?"
"I only know that he perished, as did so many hundred others, who were
also so true and brave.
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