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The Companions of Jehu

CHAPTER XXVII
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But you heard for yourself; in all probability, some news has reached the committee; government money probably.

You can announce it to Cadoudal; only we shall have to take it first.
Ordinarily, I command these expeditions; if I delay, some one may take my place.

So tell me what your waistcoat and trousers are made of." "My dear Morgan," replied the Vendean, "perhaps you have heard that my brother was captured near Bressure, and shot by the Blues ?" "Yes, I know that." "The Blues were retreating; they left the body at the corner of the hedge.

We were pursuing them so closely that we arrived just after them.
I found the body of my brother still warm.

In one of his wounds a sprig was stuck with these words: 'Shot as a brigand by me, Claude Flageolet, corporal of the Third Battalion of Paris.' I took my brother's body, and had the skin removed from his breast.


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