The general promised that this should be done.

A warm contest ensued upon the subject between him and Tracassier, but the general stood firm; and Tracassier, enraged, forgot his usual cunning, and quarrelling irrevocably with a party now more powerful than his own, he and his adherents were driven from that station in which they had so long tyrannised.

From being the rulers of France, they in a few hours became banished men, or, in the phrase of the times, _des deportes_.
We must not omit to mention the wretched end of Manon.

The man with whom she lived perished by the guillotine.

From his splendid house she went upon the stage, did not succeed, sank from one degree of profligacy to another, and at last died in an hospital.
In the meantime, the order for the restoration of the Fleury property, and for permission for the Fleury family to return to France, was made out in due form, and Maurice begged to be the messenger of these good tidings--he set out for England with the order.
Victoire immediately went down to the Chateau de Fleury, to get everything in readiness for the reception of the family.
Exiles are expeditious in their return to their native country.