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The Eagle of the Empire

CHAPTER XXVII
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He gave free permission to Sir Gervaise Yeovil and his son to return to England.

He made no objection to their taking with them the Countess Laure, now the last of the line.

He, himself, was present at the funeral of the Marquis, who was buried with all the military honors of his rank and station.

There were generous hearts among those Frenchmen.

As the representative of the King they had hated him, but when he had died so gallantly rather than survive what his nice sensibility believed to be his dishonor, his failure at any rate, they honored him.


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