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No Surrender!

CHAPTER 2: The Beginning Of Troubles
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When the tenants are in any difficulty about paying their rents, I am always willing to take it out in wine or cider; for my father deals in both, and therefore it is as good as money.

But I have not sent any to Nantes for the past two or three years and, as you say, the cellars are as full as they can hold.
"Tomorrow, Leigh, we will ride over and call upon some of our neighbours to hear the last news, for the Bocage is as far away from Nantes as if it were on the other side of France, and we hear only vague rumours of what is going on here." The ride was a delightful one to Leigh.

He had only once visited the chateau before, and then only for a day or two.

The wild country, with its deep lanes, its thick high hedges, its woods and copses, was all new to him; for the country round his English home was, for the most part, bare and open.

Some of the peasants carried guns over their shoulders, and looked as if accustomed to use them.
"Very few of them possess guns," Jean Martin remarked, "and that they should carry them shows how disturbed a state of mind all these people are in.


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