I declare when they came to pick me up, I thought it was all over, and that I'd been shot already." "Well, I don't think anybody heard me scream," said Momont: "but there's a difference I know between a man and a woman.

'It's all for my King and my master,' said I to myself.

Besides a man can die but once, and it's a great thing to die honourably." The old man turned round to receive the approbation, which he considered was due to the sentiment he had expressed, and found that Chapeau was gone.

The kitchen, however, was filled with peasants, and in them Momont found ready listeners and warm admirers.
Both Chapeau and the priest had spent the greater portion of the night in collecting what they considered would be a sufficient number of men to enable them to attack, with any chance of success, the republican soldiers who had taken possession of Durbelliere.

They had neither of them the slightest idea what amount of force had been brought against the chateau, and, consequently, wasted much time in procuring many more men than were necessary for the purpose.