The Eye-Witness: Being a Series of Descriptions And Sketches in Which It is ...
The Eye-Witness: Being a Series of Descriptions And Sketches in Which It is ...
Belloc Hilaire
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It had had no purpose in the history of the nation during all that thousand years in which Digitized by VjOOQ IC DROIJBTS RIDE S29 the great edifice of the French Monarchy had risen to the benefit of mankind ; and now this deserted and haunted lane in the wood was the instrument by which that Monarchy was destroyed. Down it and down it» mile after mile, the horses thundered. The night wore on, and from the distant steeples of the villages in the plain beneath the half -hour struck; a couple of ...miles away down on the plain, and parallel to Drouet's riding, ran the straight high road, and on it, still rolling ahead, but gained on with every bound of the cavalryman's horses, went the beriine and the destiny of the Bourbons. The riders came to a place where years before murder had been done, and where a great white stone had been set by the peasantry, who dread the powers of evil that haunt such spots. This stone was Drouet*s mark, for here there branches from the ridgeway a narrow and foul paUi which leads downwards on to the Varennes road, and strikes that road just as it issues from the forest and at the gate of tibe little town.
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