The last words of each were, "Laurence, _cy meurs_!" The elder d'Hauteserre died a colonel at the attack on the redoubt at Moscow, where his brother took his place.
Adrien d'Hauteserre, appointed brigadier-general at the battle of Dresden, was dangerously wounded there and was sent to Cinq-Cygne for proper nursing.

While endeavoring to save this relic of the four gentlemen who for a few brief months had been so happy around her, Laurence, then thirty-two years of age, married him.

She offered him a withered heart, but he accepted it; those who truly love doubt nothing or doubt all.
The Restoration found Laurence without enthusiasm.

The Bourbons returned too late for her.

Nevertheless, she had no cause for complaint.