"Neither I, nor Marie will leave our brothers, nor will Madame de Lescure leave her husband; it is little we can do to hasten victory, but we can lessen suffering and administer comfort, when comfort is most required.

Had you, Cathelineau, loved some woman above all others, and been loved by her; had you had with you in your struggle some dear sister, or perhaps still dearer wife, would you have asked her to go from you, that you might have battled on, and struggled, and at last have died alone ?" "By God's dear love, I would," said he, raising himself, as he spoke, upon his bed.

"My most earnest prayer to her should have been to leave me." "And when she refused to do so; when she also swore by God's dear love, that she would stay with you till the last; as she would have done, Cathelineau, if she loved you as--as you should have been loved; would you then have refused the comfort her love so longed to give you ?" "I know not then what I would have done," said he, after lying with his eyes closed for a few moments without answering.

"I have never known such love.

Our women love their husbands and their brothers, but it is only angels love with such a love as that." "Such is the love a man deserves who gives his all for his King and his country.