"How could they be victorious when their great General had fallen ?" "Mortally wounded! Oh, Foret, you are indeed a messenger of evil," said de Lescure, giving him his hand.
"Yes, mortally wounded," said Foret.

"I fear before this he may have ceased to breathe.

I left him, gentlemen, a few leagues this side Nantes, and at his own request hurried on to tell you these sad tidings.
Oh, M.de Lescure, our cause has had a heavy blow at Nantes, and yet at one time we had almost beaten them; but when the peasants saw Cathelineau fall, they would fight no longer." "Where is he ?" said Henri, "that is if he still lives." "I crossed the river with him," answered Foret, "and brought him on as far as Remouille.

He wished to be carried to the hospital you have opened at St.Laurent, and unless he has died since I left him, he is there now.

I hurried on by Montacue and Tiffauges to St.Laurent; and there, M.Henri, I saw Mademoiselle Agatha, and told her what had happened.