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diff --git a/58173-8.txt b/58173-0.txt index e6ee006..0f36f01 100644 --- a/58173-8.txt +++ b/58173-0.txt @@ -1,38 +1,4 @@ -The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Great Invasion of 1813-14, by -Erckmann-Chatrian - - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - - -Title: The Great Invasion of 1813-14 - or, After Leipzig - - -Author: Erckmann-Chatrian - - - -Release Date: October 26, 2018 [eBook #58173] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - - -***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREAT INVASION OF 1813-14*** - - -E-text prepared by Brian Coe, Graeme Mackreth, and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made -available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 58173 *** @@ -117,7 +83,7 @@ of Falkenstein, destroyed two hundred years ago by the Swedes. It is now nothing but a heap of ruins, over-run with brambles and weeds. The approach to it is by an old, worn pathway, called a _schlitte_[1] road, of which you can catch a glimpse through the fir-trees. To the right, -on the hillside, is seen the farm of Bois-de-Chênes, a large building, +on the hillside, is seen the farm of Bois-de-Chênes, a large building, with granaries, stables, and outhouses, the flat roof weighted with huge stones to resist the keen north wind. Cows are grazing on the common, and a few goats are climbing the steep rocks. @@ -148,7 +114,7 @@ of his blood. Besides Louise, the worthy man had other objects of affection. He loved, above all, his cousin, the old mistress of the farm of -Bois-de-Chênes, Catherine Lefévre, and her son, Gaspard, drawn in that +Bois-de-Chênes, Catherine Lefévre, and her son, Gaspard, drawn in that year's conscription, a handsome young fellow, betrothed to Louise, and whose return at the end of the campaign was anxiously expected by all the family. @@ -212,7 +178,7 @@ chance!" Thus reasoned the worthy man, and days, weeks, and months went by in the near prospect of Gaspard's return. -Gaspard's mother, widow Lefévre, a woman of marvellous industry and +Gaspard's mother, widow Lefévre, a woman of marvellous industry and energy, shared Hullin's ideas on the subject of Louise. "I," she would say, "only want a daughter who will love us; I don't want her to meddle with my housekeeping. Only let her make herself happy! You'll not @@ -255,7 +221,7 @@ the ankle, and his feet bare. An enormous raven, his coal-black wings relieved by a few feathers of dazzling whiteness, was perched upon his shoulder. At first sight of him, and his stately presence, you would have thought him one of those ancient Merovingian kings depicted in the -paintings of Montbéliard; he held in his left hand a short thick stick, +paintings of Montbéliard; he held in his left hand a short thick stick, cut in the form of a sceptre, and with his right hand he made fantastic gestures, raising his finger to heaven, and seeming to address his suite. @@ -267,12 +233,12 @@ came down into the street, and tried to bar his way, but he, with head erect and raised eyebrow, with a gesture and a word, forced them to stand aside. -"See," said Hullin, "here is Yégof. I did not expect to see him again +"See," said Hullin, "here is Yégof. I did not expect to see him again this winter. It is not his usual custom. What the devil can bring him back in such weather as this?" And Louise, laying down her distaff, ran hastily out to look at the -"King of Diamonds." The arrival of the fool Yégof at the beginning of +"King of Diamonds." The arrival of the fool Yégof at the beginning of winter was quite an event; some were delighted at it, hoping to keep him and make him tell stories of his fortune and glories, by the inn firesides; others, and especially the women, felt a sort of uneasiness, @@ -284,7 +250,7 @@ refined and cultivated minds. And this fool besides, had, above all others, really extraordinary and sublime ideas. No one knew either where he came from, where he went, or -what he wanted; for Yégof wandered about the country like a troubled +what he wanted; for Yégof wandered about the country like a troubled spirit; he would talk of races now extinct, and claimed to be himself Emperor of Austrasia, Polynesia, and other places. Large volumes might have been written about his castles, his palaces, and his strongholds; @@ -314,7 +280,7 @@ high enough to enter into the invisible spheres; but they had a great effect upon Louise; above all, when the great raven flapped his wings, and uttered his hoarse croak. -Yégof was coming down the street without stopping anywhere, and Louise, +Yégof was coming down the street without stopping anywhere, and Louise, quite in a fright at seeing that he was fixing his eyes upon their little house, said hastily: @@ -329,14 +295,14 @@ kiss. "Yes, yes; you coax me finely," said he, with a laugh, "because I do just whatever you like; and who's to pay me for my wood and work, I -should like to know? Not Yégof, that's very certain!" +should like to know? Not Yégof, that's very certain!" Louise gave him another kiss, and a tear stood in Hullin's eye as he looked at her, and murmured: "That's the pay I like best of all." -Yégof was at that time about fifty paces off their house, and the noise +Yégof was at that time about fifty paces off their house, and the noise and tumult grew louder and louder. The street urchins, hanging on to his tattered robes, kept shouting: @@ -354,14 +320,14 @@ thing which the worthy man had often done before, with the full consent of their parents--when all the troop dispersed helter-skelter. Then, turning towards the maniac: -"Come in, Yégof," said the shoemaker: "come in, and warm yourself by +"Come in, Yégof," said the shoemaker: "come in, and warm yourself by the fire." -"My name is not Yégof," replied the poor fellow, with an offended air: +"My name is not Yégof," replied the poor fellow, with an offended air: "my name is Luitprand, King of Austrasia and Polynesia." "Yes, yes, I know," said Jean-Claude, "I know; you have told me all -that before; but no matter whether your name is Yégof or Luitprand, +that before; but no matter whether your name is Yégof or Luitprand, come in all the same. It is cold; try and warm yourself." "I will come in," replied the fool, "but it is on a very serious @@ -370,7 +336,7 @@ between the Germans and the Triboques." "Very good--we will talk about it." -Then Yégof, stooping under the portal, entered, in a dreamy absent +Then Yégof, stooping under the portal, entered, in a dreamy absent manner, and made a profound bow to Louise, at the same time lowering his sceptre; but the raven would not come in. Spreading his immense wings, he swept in a vast circle round the dwelling, and wound up his @@ -382,7 +348,7 @@ break them. But the bird would not detach his sharp claws from the leaden staples, and continued to flap his great wings against the casement as long as his master stayed in the house. Louise never took her eyes off -him; she was afraid of him. As for Yégof, he took his seat in the old +him; she was afraid of him. As for Yégof, he took his seat in the old leathern arm-chair behind the stove, with his legs extended as if on a throne--and, casting a haughty look around him, said: @@ -430,12 +396,12 @@ Germany, Brittany and Normandy to the men of the North, and Flanders and the South to Spain. We will make a little kingdom of France round Paris--quite a little kingdom, with a descendant of the old race at your head, and you shall not stir any more--you shall be very quiet. -He! he! he!" and Yégof laughed. +He! he! he!" and Yégof laughed. Hullin, who knew very little of history, was surprised that the fool should know so many names. -"Bah! have done, Yégof," said he, "and take a little soup to warm your +"Bah! have done, Yégof," said he, "and take a little soup to warm your stomach." "I do not ask for your soup--I ask of you this girl in marriage--the @@ -449,9 +415,9 @@ admiration. "How lovely she is!" said he; "I destine her to the highest honours. Rejoice, young girl, rejoice--you shall be queen of Austrasia!" -"Listen, Yégof," said Hullin: "I am much flattered by your offer--it +"Listen, Yégof," said Hullin: "I am much flattered by your offer--it proves that you appreciate beauty! That is very right; but my daughter -is already betrothed to Gaspard Lefévre." +is already betrothed to Gaspard Lefévre." "But I," exclaimed the fool, in an angry tone, "will not listen to that." Then rising, "Hullin," said he, resuming his solemn air, "this @@ -482,7 +448,7 @@ But in spite of these words, and the departure of the fool, Louise still trembled, and felt herself blush as she thought of the looks the wretched being had cast on her. -In the meantime, Yégof had retaken the road to Valtin. He could be seen +In the meantime, Yégof had retaken the road to Valtin. He could be seen walking gravely away, his raven perched upon his shoulder, and making strange signs and gestures, although there was no one near him. Night was at hand, and soon the tall form of the King of Diamonds blended @@ -518,7 +484,7 @@ return of the conscripts, and what not--all of which helped to pass away the time in a very agreeable manner. Hullin sat alone, opposite his little copper lamp, repairing the old -wood-cutter's sabots. Already he thought no more of the fool, Yégof; +wood-cutter's sabots. Already he thought no more of the fool, Yégof; his hammer went up and down, hitting the big nails into the thick wooden soles, and all mechanically, and from force of habit. A thousand thoughts, however, passed through his head; he was a dreamer without @@ -535,12 +501,12 @@ murmuring: these days." The old clock began to strike nine; and as Hullin resumed his work, the -door opened, and Catherine Lefévre, the mistress of the Bois-de-Chênes +door opened, and Catherine Lefévre, the mistress of the Bois-de-Chênes farm, appeared on the threshold, to the great surprise of the shoemaker, for it was not usual for her to leave her home at such an hour. -Catherine Lefévre might be about sixty years of age, but she was as +Catherine Lefévre might be about sixty years of age, but she was as upright and straight as at thirty. Her clear gray eyes and hooked nose gave to her face some-what the look of a bird of prey; her sunken cheeks, and the corners of her mouth, drawn down by thought, added @@ -570,7 +536,7 @@ Instead of replying to this question, the old woman, looking towards the door, seemed to be listening; then, hearing nothing, she resumed her musing look. -"The fool Yégof passed last night at the farm," said she. +"The fool Yégof passed last night at the farm," said she. "He came to see me, too, this afternoon," said Hullin, without attaching any importance to this fact, which seemed to him of no moment. @@ -598,17 +564,17 @@ went on slowly: "Yesterday evening, then, after supper, all our people were assembled in the kitchen, round the fire. The table was still covered with the -empty bowls, platters, and spoons. Yégof had supped with us, and been +empty bowls, platters, and spoons. Yégof had supped with us, and been diverting us with the history of his treasures, his castles, and his provinces. It might be then about nine o'clock--the fool had just -seated himself in the corner, beside the blazing hearth. Duchêne, my +seated himself in the corner, beside the blazing hearth. Duchêne, my labourer, was botching Bruno's saddle; the shepherd, Robin, was weaving a basket; Annette was arranging her pots and pans on the dresser, while I had brought my wheel to the fire to spin a hank before going to bed. Out of doors, the dogs were barking at the moon; it must have been very cold. Well, there we all were, talking about the winter that was -coming; Duchêne was saying that it would be very hard, for he had seen -large flocks of wild geese, which is a sure sign: and Yégof's raven, +coming; Duchêne was saying that it would be very hard, for he had seen +large flocks of wild geese, which is a sure sign: and Yégof's raven, perched on the edge of the chimney-piece, his great head buried in his ruffled plumes, seemed to be asleep; but from time to time he stretched out his neck, preened a feather or two with his bill, then looked at @@ -624,7 +590,7 @@ face. The old woman went on: -"Yégof, beside the blazing hearth, with his tin crown on his head, his +"Yégof, beside the blazing hearth, with his tin crown on his head, his short staff between his knees, was dreaming of something. He looked at the great black fire-place, the large stone chimney-piece, with figures and trees carved upon it, and the smoke which was rising in heavy @@ -644,7 +610,7 @@ the Moselle, the Meuse. Oh, yes; I remember all that.' "Strange to say, Jean-Claude, while the fool continued speaking, I seemed to see again all those countries of former times, and to -remember them as a dream. I had let fall my distaff, and old Duchêne, +remember them as a dream. I had let fall my distaff, and old Duchêne, Robin, Jeanne--in short, every one, was listening eagerly. 'Yes, it is a long time ago,' the fool began again. 'In those times, too, you used to build these huge fire-places; and all around, at two or three @@ -681,7 +647,7 @@ old man chained to his gate. Wait while I try and remember it. It was sad--sad as _a miserere_. I cannot recollect it, Jean-Claude; but I seem to hear it still: it froze the marrow in my bones. And as he kept laughing all the while, our people at last grew furious. With a -terrible cry, Duchêne sprang at the throat of the fool to strangle him; +terrible cry, Duchêne sprang at the throat of the fool to strangle him; but he, stronger than you would think, repulsed him, and raising his staff threateningly, exclaimed: @@ -691,7 +657,7 @@ castles--the Nideck, the Haut-Barr, the Dagsberg, the Turkestein--you will have to rebuild them. On your knees!' "Never in my life did I see a countenance more terrific than that of -Yégof at this moment; but, for the second time seeing my people about +Yégof at this moment; but, for the second time seeing my people about to rush upon him, I felt bound to defend him. "'He is a madman,' said I. 'Are you not ashamed to take heed of the @@ -706,7 +672,7 @@ this, Hullin?" "I!" said the shoemaker, whose full, red face betrayed a sort of sad scorn mixed with pity; "if I did not know you as well as I do, Catherine, I should say that you had gone out of your mind--you, -Duchêne, Robin, and all the rest of them. It all sounds to me like one +Duchêne, Robin, and all the rest of them. It all sounds to me like one of the tales of Genevieve de Brabant--a story made to frighten little children, and which shows us the folly of our ancestors." @@ -714,7 +680,7 @@ children, and which shows us the folly of our ancestors." farm-mistress, in a calm and grave tone; "you never had any ideas of this sort." -"Then you believe what Yégof sang to you?" +"Then you believe what Yégof sang to you?" "Yes, I believe it." @@ -728,7 +694,7 @@ German schoolmasters who puzzle their brain over an old story of Mother Goose, and discuss it gravely with you. By dint of studying dreaming, pondering, looking for knots in a bulrush, their brain gets bewildered--they have visions, distorted dreams, and take those -dreams for gospel. I have always looked upon Yégof as one of those +dreams for gospel. I have always looked upon Yégof as one of those poor creatures, he knows a host of names; he talks of Brittany and Austrasia, of Polynesia and the Nideck; and then of the Geroldseck, the Turkestein, the borders of the Rhine: in short, of everything, at @@ -739,14 +705,14 @@ rumours of war, of invasion, that are going about, torment you, disturb your rest. You cannot sleep, and so you come to look upon the babble of a fool as the words of Holy Writ." -"No, Hullin--it is not so. You, yourself, if you had heard Yégof----" +"No, Hullin--it is not so. You, yourself, if you had heard Yégof----" "Stuff and nonsense!" exclaimed the honest man. "If I had heard it I should have laughed in his face, as just now---- By the way, do you know that he came to ask Louise's hand of me, to make her Queen of Austrasia?" -Catherine Lefévre could not restrain a smile; but immediately resuming +Catherine Lefévre could not restrain a smile; but immediately resuming her serious manner: "All your reasons, Jean-Claude," said she, "do not convince me; but I confess Gaspard's silence alarms me. I know my son. I am certain he has written to me. Why, then, have not his letters @@ -978,13 +944,13 @@ Then all was silent again! And as Hullin stood watching all this, and feeling his very heart sicken within him,--just at that moment a shopkeeper in the Square, -Sôme the baker, came out of his house, carrying a large saucepan +Sôme the baker, came out of his house, carrying a large saucepan filled with soup. It was then a sight, to behold all those ghosts move restlessly on their straw, their eyes sparkling, their nostrils dilating; new life seemed to be given them, for the poor wretches were dying of hunger. -The good baker, Sôme, with tears in his eyes, approached, saying: +The good baker, Sôme, with tears in his eyes, approached, saying: "Here I am, my children!--a little patience! It's I--you know me?" @@ -1083,7 +1049,7 @@ not have been sketched otherwise. He kept striding up and down the room, rubbing his hands, while Wittman poured him out a dram of brandy. Hullin, seated near the window, had instantly noticed the number of his regiment--6th Light Infantry. Gaspard, son of the farm-mistress -Lefévre, served in this regiment. Jean-Claude could now hear news of +Lefévre, served in this regiment. Jean-Claude could now hear news of Louise's betrothed; but just as he was about to speak, his heart nearly failed him: "If Gaspard were dead; if he had perished, like so many others!" @@ -1097,9 +1063,9 @@ And yet, in a few minutes' time, he was unable to restrain himself. "Yes, neighbour," said the other, returning to the middle of the room. -"Do you happen to know a young man named Gaspard Lefévre?" +"Do you happen to know a young man named Gaspard Lefévre?" -"Gaspard Lefévre, of the 2nd division of the 1st--do I know him? Why, +"Gaspard Lefévre, of the 2nd division of the 1st--do I know him? Why, I taught him his drill: a brave soldier, by all that's blue! hard as iron. If we had about a hundred thousand of his mettle----" @@ -1109,7 +1075,7 @@ iron. If we had about a hundred thousand of his mettle----" regiment at Fredericsthal, to escort this convoy of wounded; but in such times as these, you see, we can't answer for anything; from one moment to the next we are each of us liable to be sent to our account. -But a week ago, at Fredericsthal, Gaspard Lefévre answered to the +But a week ago, at Fredericsthal, Gaspard Lefévre answered to the muster-roll." Jean-Claude drew a long breath. @@ -1137,7 +1103,7 @@ left their bones to bleach there. Everything was against us. Sickness, traitors, the peasants, the shopkeepers, our Allies--in short, everything. Of our company, which left Phalsbourg in full marching order on the 21st of last January, there have returned only thirty-two -men. I think Gaspard Lefévre is the only one of the conscripts left. +men. I think Gaspard Lefévre is the only one of the conscripts left. Poor fellows! they fought well; but they were not used to starving, and they melted away like butter on a stove." @@ -1188,10 +1154,10 @@ Hullin had grown quite thoughtful. "The state of things is, that we have been obliged to re-cross the Rhine, and that all our strong places on the other side are besieged. -The 10th of last November, the Prince of Neufchâtel reviewed the +The 10th of last November, the Prince of Neufchâtel reviewed the regiment at Bleckheim. The soldiers of the third battalion were transferred to the second, and the skeleton of the regiment was to -hold itself in readiness to set out for the depôt. The skeletons exist +hold itself in readiness to set out for the depôt. The skeletons exist sure enough, but where are the men? No wonder there are none, bled as they have been at every pore. All Europe is up in arms. The Emperor is at Paris; he is preparing his plan of campaign. Let them only give us @@ -1220,7 +1186,7 @@ parcel?" "It is ready, Master Jean-Claude." -Then, looking in at the kitchen door, he called out:--"Grédel, Grédel, +Then, looking in at the kitchen door, he called out:--"Grédel, Grédel, bring Master Hullin's parcel!" A little woman appeared at this summons, and placed on the table a @@ -1256,11 +1222,11 @@ CHAPTER IV. Whilst Hullin, informed of the disasters that had befallen our armies, was walking with downcast head and knitted brows towards the village of -Charmes, all was going on as usual at the farm of Bois-de-Chênes. The -fantastic stories of Yégof--the rumours of war--were alike forgotten -for the present; old Duchêne led his oxen to the water, the shepherd +Charmes, all was going on as usual at the farm of Bois-de-Chênes. The +fantastic stories of Yégof--the rumours of war--were alike forgotten +for the present; old Duchêne led his oxen to the water, the shepherd Robin foddered his cattle, and Annette and Jeanne skimmed their pans of -milk, and made their curds-and-whey. Catherine Lefévre alone, gloomy +milk, and made their curds-and-whey. Catherine Lefévre alone, gloomy and silent, mused continually on the past, while, at the same time, overlooking with an impassive face the doings of her household. She was too old, and of too serious a nature, to forget from one day to the @@ -1273,7 +1239,7 @@ her custom to do. They immediately began to load the heavy cart with corn, vegetables, and poultry, for on the morrow it was market-day at Sarrebourg, and -Duchêne was to set out at daybreak. +Duchêne was to set out at daybreak. Picture to yourself this large kitchen, and all these honest people making haste to finish their work before going to bed; the big black @@ -1290,7 +1256,7 @@ with flat head and hanging jaws, prowling about in quest of some stray morsel; Dubourg descending the creaking staircase on the left, with bent back, a sack on his shoulder, and his other hand placed archwise on his hip; whilst outside, in the darkness of the night, old -Duchêne, standing upright in the cart, holds up his lantern, and calls +Duchêne, standing upright in the cart, holds up his lantern, and calls out:--"That makes the fifteenth, Dubourg; two more." There was also hanging against the wall an old brown hare brought by @@ -1306,7 +1272,7 @@ by the fire. "It is some one belonging to the farm," said Annette. "Michel does not stir." -Directly after, old Duchêne was heard outside, saying, "Good night, +Directly after, old Duchêne was heard outside, saying, "Good night, Master Jean-Claude. Is it you?" "Yes; I have just arrived from Phalsbourg, and I have come to rest for @@ -1325,7 +1291,7 @@ had nothing to do, life would be very tedious." those fresh cheeks and large bright eyes." Jeanne was going to reply when the inner door opened, and Catherine -Lefévre entered, casting a searching look at Hullin as if to guess +Lefévre entered, casting a searching look at Hullin as if to guess beforehand the news he brought. "Well, Jean-Claude, you are back again." @@ -1377,7 +1343,7 @@ What reflections, what bitter feelings passed through their minds! After a few moments the old woman strove to rouse herself from these thoughts. -"You see, Jean-Claude," said she, in a calm, grave tone, "Yégof was not +"You see, Jean-Claude," said she, in a calm, grave tone, "Yégof was not wrong." "No doubt, no doubt he was not wrong," replied Hullin; "but what does @@ -1406,7 +1372,7 @@ Her long gray hair seemed to stand erect upon her head; her pale and withered cheeks trembled, and her eyes flashed fire. She was really grand to look upon, as she stood, flushed and excited, -like that aged Margareth of whom Yégof had spoken. Hullin silently +like that aged Margareth of whom Yégof had spoken. Hullin silently held out his hand to her, and smiled approvingly. "Right!" said he; "right! The same as ever. You are like yourself, @@ -1426,8 +1392,8 @@ a thoughtful look. "Yes," she suddenly replied, in a sharp, short tone; "that is quite true; we have neither powder nor ball, but we soon will have. Marc -Divès, the smuggler, has some. You shall go to him to-morrow from me. -You will tell him that Catherine Lefévre buys of him all his powder +Divès, the smuggler, has some. You shall go to him to-morrow from me. +You will tell him that Catherine Lefévre buys of him all his powder and all his bullets, that she pays him for them, that she will sell all her cattle, her farm, her land, all--all--to procure some. Do you understand, Hullin?" @@ -1441,12 +1407,12 @@ I would pay them back. I hate them, father to son. Now, you see! Buy the powder; and this wandering beggar, this fool shall see if we will rebuild his castles!" -Hullin then perceived that she was still brooding over Yégof's stories; +Hullin then perceived that she was still brooding over Yégof's stories; but seeing how exasperated she was, and that, besides, her having this notion contributed to the defence of the country, he made no remark on this subject, and simply said: -"Then, Catherine, it's agreed that I go to Divès to-morrow?" +"Then, Catherine, it's agreed that I go to Divès to-morrow?" "Yes: you will buy all his powder and his bullets. Some one must also go the round of all the villages in the mountain, to warn the people of @@ -1460,11 +1426,11 @@ half-hour the sounds in the kitchen had ceased: the farm people had gone to bed. The old woman placed her lamp in a corner of the hearth, and drew the bolts. Out of doors, it was cold and sharp, the air calm and clear. All the tops of the surrounding trees and the dark firs of -the Jägerthal stood out against the sky in dark or luminous masses. Far +the Jägerthal stood out against the sky in dark or luminous masses. Far off in the distance the shrill yelp of a fox resounded in the valley of the Blanru. -"Good night, Hullin," said Dame Lefévre. +"Good night, Hullin," said Dame Lefévre. "Good night, Catherine." @@ -1495,7 +1461,7 @@ CHAPTER V When Jean-Claude Hullin went the next morning in his shirt-sleeves to open his shutters, he saw all the neighbouring mountains--the -Jägerthal, the Grosmann, the Donon--covered with snow. There is always +Jägerthal, the Grosmann, the Donon--covered with snow. There is always something striking in this first aspect of winter, come upon the earth in our sleep; the old firs, the moss-covered rocks, still decked in verdure the evening before, and now sparkling with hoar-frost, fill @@ -1553,7 +1519,7 @@ doubts and fears for the future; and yet, but a few days, and what clamour, what strife, may rend the air!" As the first thing necessary was to procure the powder, Catherine -Lefévre had very naturally cast her eyes upon Marc Divès, the smuggler, +Lefévre had very naturally cast her eyes upon Marc Divès, the smuggler, and his virtuous spouse, Hexe-Baizel. These people lived on the other side of the Falkenstein, under the very @@ -1563,7 +1529,7 @@ two apertures to admit light; but which, if report spoke true, had another outlet, leading to old subterranean passages of great extent. This the custom-house officers had never been able to discover, in spite of numberless visits paid with that object in view. Jean-Claude -and Marc Divès had known each other from childhood--had rambled +and Marc Divès had known each other from childhood--had rambled together as boys in search of hawks' and owls' nests, and, in after life, they met each other at least once nearly every week, at the great sawpits of the Valtin. Jean-Claude, therefore, believed himself sure of @@ -1677,22 +1643,22 @@ A sound like the rustling of straw was heard, then the wooden outworks were withdrawn, and a huge frame, three feet broad from one shoulder to the other, lean, bony, bent, the neck and ears of the colour of brickdust, and with thick, stubbly, brown hair, appeared, stooping -through the opening, and Marc Divès, yawning and stretching his long +through the opening, and Marc Divès, yawning and stretching his long arms with a stifled sigh, stood before Hullin. -At first sight, the aspect of Marc Divès seemed pacific enough; his +At first sight, the aspect of Marc Divès seemed pacific enough; his broad and low forehead, short, curly hair, which came down in a point almost to his eyebrows, leaving his temples bare, his straight and pointed nose, and long chin, and, above all, the calm expression of his brown eyes, would have caused him to be classed rather among the ruminating than a fiercer tribe of animals; but those who so thought would have done wrong. Reports ran throughout the country that Marc -Divès, in the event of an attack by the revenue officers, did not +Divès, in the event of an attack by the revenue officers, did not scruple to make use of his hatchet or carbine in case of need, and many serious accidents that had befallen the excise collectors were laid to his charge; but the proofs were always wanting, the smuggler, thanks to his profound knowledge of all the defiles of the mountain, and of every -cross-road from Dagsburg to Sarrebrück, and from Raon-L'Etape to Bâle, +cross-road from Dagsburg to Sarrebrück, and from Raon-L'Etape to Bâle, in Switzerland, always contriving to put himself at fifteen leagues' distance from the place where an unlucky encounter had taken place. And then he had such a simple manner about him, and those who spread those @@ -1768,10 +1734,10 @@ to defend ourselves, and with a good will." "And there are those who will pay for it?" -"It is Catherine Lefévre who will pay for it, and it is she who has +"It is Catherine Lefévre who will pay for it, and it is she who has sent me," said Hullin. -Then Marc Divès rose, and in a solemn voice, and with his hand extended +Then Marc Divès rose, and in a solemn voice, and with his hand extended towards the summits of the steep mountains, he exclaimed:--"She is a woman as grand and as firm as that rock down below there, the Oxenstein, the largest I ever saw in my life. I drink to her health. @@ -1779,9 +1745,9 @@ Drink you, too, Jean-Claude." Hullin drank, as did also the old woman. -"And now there is nothing more to be said," exclaimed Divès; "but, +"And now there is nothing more to be said," exclaimed Divès; "but, hark ye, Hullin; you must not fancy this will be an easy matter; all -the hunters, all the _ségares_,[7] all the _schlitteurs_, all the +the hunters, all the _ségares_,[7] all the _schlitteurs_, all the woodcutters of the mountain, will not be too many for the work that is to be done. I have just come from the other side of the Rhine. There are Russians, Austrians, Bavarians, Prussians, Cossacks, Hussars. There @@ -1820,7 +1786,7 @@ pay us. I shall not light the lantern, no!" Marc, without a word, stretched out his hand, and seized a thick cudgel from the wood pile close by; then the old woman, bristling with rage, disappeared into the inner hole like a ferret, and came a few seconds -after with a great horn lantern, which Divès quietly lit at the blazing +after with a great horn lantern, which Divès quietly lit at the blazing hearth. "Baizel," said the smuggler, replacing the stick in the corner, "you @@ -1835,7 +1801,7 @@ the height of two hundred feet in the air. He put aside the foliage of a small oak growing up from below, strode over it, and disappeared as if suddenly launched into the abyss below. Jean-Claude shuddered; but almost immediately afterwards he saw, against the ledge of the rock, -the head of Divès, who called to him: +the head of Divès, who called to him: "Hullin, place your hand to the left, you will find a hole; put your foot out boldly, you will feel a step, and then turn upon your heel." @@ -1894,15 +1860,15 @@ would ever have thought of following him? At that time, Jean-Claude, I was only twelve years old. The thought instantly struck me that some day or other this hiding-place might be useful to me. I did not then know for what; but, in after-times, when I had my first bouts of -smuggling at Landau, Kiel, and Bâle with Jacob Zimmer, and when all the +smuggling at Landau, Kiel, and Bâle with Jacob Zimmer, and when all the custom-house officers were at my heels, the idea of my old cavern began to haunt me day and night. I had made the acquaintance of Hexe-Baizel, -who was at that time servant at the farm of Bois-de-Chênes, where +who was at that time servant at the farm of Bois-de-Chênes, where Catherine's father then lived. She brought me twenty-five louis as her marriage portion, and we came and settled ourselves in our cavern of Arbousiers." -Divès was silent, and Hullin, after musing a moment, said: "You are +Divès was silent, and Hullin, after musing a moment, said: "You are very fond of this hole, then, Marc?" "Fond of it? I'll tell you what, I wouldn't change it for the finest @@ -1940,7 +1906,7 @@ perspiration; but I am used to it now." "Well then all would be over. As well die spitted on a fir-tree as lie coughing whole days and nights upon a mattrass." -Divès then held up his lantern, and, by its light, the barrels of +Divès then held up his lantern, and, by its light, the barrels of gunpowder, piled one upon another up to the roof of the vault, were plainly seen. @@ -1996,7 +1962,7 @@ attack of giddiness. "Step firmly," said Marc; "imitate me--your right hand in the hole, the right foot forward on the step, one half turn round--here we are!" -They returned to the kitchen, where Hexe-Baizel told them that Yégof +They returned to the kitchen, where Hexe-Baizel told them that Yégof was in the ruins of the old _burg_. "We know it," replied Marc; "we have just seen him taking the air up @@ -2008,7 +1974,7 @@ of the frost-covered bushes, and the fool appeared before them on the terrace. His looks were wild and haggard, and, casting a glance at the hearth, he exclaimed: -"Marc Divès, you must give up this place as soon as possible. I warn +"Marc Divès, you must give up this place as soon as possible. I warn you; I am weary of this disorder. The fortifications of my domains must be free. I will not suffer vermin to harbour in them." @@ -2022,7 +1988,7 @@ have shown more good sense than I expected of you." Hullin could not help laughing. -"No, Yégof, no; Heaven has not yet enlightened me enough," said he, +"No, Yégof, no; Heaven has not yet enlightened me enough," said he, "for me to accept the honour you wish to do me; besides, Louise is not yet of an age to marry." @@ -2039,13 +2005,13 @@ And so, turning gravely on his heel, his head high and erect, in spite of the extreme rapidity of the descent, he vanished quickly from their sight. -Hullin, Marc Divès, and even Hexe-Baizel herself, uttered loud peals of +Hullin, Marc Divès, and even Hexe-Baizel herself, uttered loud peals of laughter. "He is a great fool," said Hexe-Baizel. "I think you are not altogether wrong," replied the smuggler. "That -poor Yégof is certainly out of his mind. But never mind that now. +poor Yégof is certainly out of his mind. But never mind that now. Baizel, listen well to me; you must begin to cast bullets of all sizes; for my part, I am going to set out for Switzerland. In a week at the latest, the rest of our ammunition will be here. Give me my boots." @@ -2061,7 +2027,7 @@ Forward, Jean-Claude!" Hullin followed him out upon the terrace without saying good-bye to Hexe-Baizel, who, for her part, did not even deign to come to the door to see them depart. As soon as they had arrived at the foot of the -rock, Marc Divès stopped, and said: +rock, Marc Divès stopped, and said: "You are going into all the villages of the mountain, are you not, Hullin?" @@ -2070,9 +2036,9 @@ Hullin?" the charcoal-burners, the bargemen of what is going on." "Without doubt. Do not forget Materne of Hengst and his two boys, -Labarbe of Dagsburg, Jerôme of Saint-Quirin. Tell them that there +Labarbe of Dagsburg, Jerôme of Saint-Quirin. Tell them that there will be powder and ball; that we are in it heart and soul, Catherine -Lefévre, I, Marc Divès, and all the honest people of the country." +Lefévre, I, Marc Divès, and all the honest people of the country." "Make your mind easy, Marc; I know my men." @@ -2086,7 +2052,7 @@ to the left, towards the Sarre. They were both proceeding on their way at a good pace when Hullin called to his comrade: -"Halloo! Marc, as you pass Catherine Lefévre's, tell her that all goes +"Halloo! Marc, as you pass Catherine Lefévre's, tell her that all goes well, and that I am gone to the villages in the mountain." The other answered by a sign of his head that he understood, and then @@ -2158,9 +2124,9 @@ Daniel Hirsch, an old naval gunner, who promised them his support, and that of all the people of his commonalty. At this place Labarbe left Jean-Claude to continue his way alone. For a whole week longer he did nothing but work his way to and from the mountain, from Soldatenthal -to Léonsberg, to Meienthâl, to Abreschwiller, Voyer, Loëttenbach, +to Léonsberg, to Meienthâl, to Abreschwiller, Voyer, Loëttenbach, Cirey, Petit-Mont, Saint-Sauveur, and on the ninth day he found himself -at the house of the shoemaker, Jerôme, at Saint-Quirin. Together they +at the house of the shoemaker, Jerôme, at Saint-Quirin. Together they visited the defile of the Blanru, after which Hullin, satisfied with his journey and its results, at length took his way back to the village. @@ -2172,7 +2138,7 @@ discovered in the pale twilight the hamlet of Charmes, and his own little modest tenement, from the chimney of which rose a wreath of smoke so thin as to be almost imperceptible, the little gardens surrounded with wooden palings, the shingly roofs, and, to the left, -the large farm of Bois-de-Chênes, with the sawpit of the Valtin at the +the large farm of Bois-de-Chênes, with the sawpit of the Valtin at the other end half-hidden in the already dark ravine. Then, suddenly, and without knowing why, a deep sadness fell upon him. @@ -2205,8 +2171,8 @@ deceive her, to make her believe something else--no matter what--to account for his absence, and console her; but such modes of dealing were foreign to his nature, and he grew more and more sad. -As he was passing by the farm of Bois-de-Chênes, he went in to tell -Catherine Lefévre that all was going well, and that the mountaineers +As he was passing by the farm of Bois-de-Chênes, he went in to tell +Catherine Lefévre that all was going well, and that the mountaineers only awaited the signal. A quarter of an hour later, Master Jean-Claude, descending the footpath @@ -2244,7 +2210,7 @@ firm, placing his stick behind the door, and his hat upon the table; He could say no more. "Oh! yes, yes, because you have been to see our friends," said Louise, -with a smile; "I know all; Mother Lefévre has told me everything." +with a smile; "I know all; Mother Lefévre has told me everything." "What! you know all, and yet you are the same as usual? So much the better; it shows your good sense. And I, who was dreading to see your @@ -2293,7 +2259,7 @@ little thing, and hunger, too?" She stamped impatiently with her foot, and then, for the third time, threw her arms round Jean-Claude's neck. -"Come, Papa Hullin," said she, in a coaxing voice, "Mother Lefévre has +"Come, Papa Hullin," said she, in a coaxing voice, "Mother Lefévre has said 'Yes.' Will you be less kind than she? Ah! if you but knew how I love you!" @@ -2313,7 +2279,7 @@ must think me very hard-hearted!" She sobbed and cried. Hullin could restrain himself no longer. -"Is it really true that Mother Lefévre consents?" he asked. +"Is it really true that Mother Lefévre consents?" he asked. "Oh! yes; oh! yes; she told me so. She said, 'Try to persuade Papa Jean-Claude; for my part, I ask no better; I am quite willing.'" @@ -2330,7 +2296,7 @@ were dried up. now the joyful cry. "Ha!" said Hullin, with a shake of the head; "I see now you are still -the same little _heimathslôs_ as ever. As well try and tame a swallow." +the same little _heimathslôs_ as ever. As well try and tame a swallow." Then, drawing her to his knee: "Ah! Louise," said he, "it is now twelve years since I found you in the snow; you were quite blue with the cold, poor little thing! And when we got home to the little cabin, and @@ -2350,7 +2316,7 @@ well packed up. Then came Louise's bundle, with her best frocks, her petticoats and thick shoes, all in good order. He could not help laughing at last, and exclaiming: -"Oh! _heimathslôs, heimathslôs!_ there are none like you for packing +"Oh! _heimathslôs, heimathslôs!_ there are none like you for packing up, when once you've set your mind upon it!" Louise smiled. @@ -2389,7 +2355,7 @@ daughter, and the pleasant bustle of work. And all this Louise could quit without a sigh of regret; she thought of nothing but the woods, the snowy path across the endless chain of mountains from their village to Switzerland, and farther still. Ah! Master Jean-Claude had, indeed, -good reason to exclaim, "_Heimathslôs! Heimathslôs!_" The swallow +good reason to exclaim, "_Heimathslôs! Heimathslôs!_" The swallow cannot be tamed!--she needs the open air, the boundless sky, the eternal voyage over the wide expanse of waters! She fears neither storm nor wind, nor torrents of rain, as the hour of departure approaches. @@ -2424,12 +2390,12 @@ fourteen years ago--it seems to me but yesterday!" All at once, outside, the crisp snow crackled beneath a rapid footstep. He listened--there was some one. And almost immediately after he heard two little taps at the window. He ran and opened it. The rough head -of Marc Divès, with his broad-brimmed hat quite stiff with frost, was +of Marc Divès, with his broad-brimmed hat quite stiff with frost, was visible in the gloom. "Well, Marc, what news?" -"Have you warned the mountaineers--Materne, Jerôme, Labarbe?" +"Have you warned the mountaineers--Materne, Jerôme, Labarbe?" "Yes, all." @@ -2459,7 +2425,7 @@ From midnight until six o'clock in the morning, a bright flame shone through the darkness on the summit of the Falkenstein, and the whole mountain was astir. -All the friends of Hullin, of Marc Divès, and of Dame Lefévre, +All the friends of Hullin, of Marc Divès, and of Dame Lefévre, their legs encased in long gaiters, their old guns slung over their shoulders, were silently marching through the woods in the deep stillness of the night towards the gorges of the Valtin. The thought @@ -2469,7 +2435,7 @@ of all. The tocsins of Dagsburg, of Abreschwiller, of Walsch, of Saint-Quirin, and of all the other villages, never ceased summoning the defenders of their country to arms. -You must now picture to yourself the Jägerthal at the foot of the old +You must now picture to yourself the Jägerthal at the foot of the old _burg_ during the period of an extraordinary fall of snow, at that early hour of the morning when the tall shadows of the trees begin to be visible through the gloom, and the piercing cold of the night @@ -2548,7 +2514,7 @@ they formed, in a manner, a band apart. These people spoke but little, being used to keeping silence for whole days and nights together, for fear of frightening the game. -Marc Divès, standing in the midst of another group, over which he +Marc Divès, standing in the midst of another group, over which he towered by a whole head, was talking and gesticulating, and pointing sometimes to one point of the mountain, and sometimes to another. Opposite him stood the old shepherd, Lagarmitte, in his long grey @@ -2557,13 +2523,13 @@ and from time to time silently bowing his grizzled head. For the most part, all the band seemed attentive; it was principally composed of woodcutters and bargemen, with whom the smuggler was almost daily brought into contact. Between the sawpit and the first fire was seated -the shoemaker, Jerôme of Saint-Quirin, a man of about fifty or sixty, +the shoemaker, Jerôme of Saint-Quirin, a man of about fifty or sixty, with a long face, brown complexion, hollow eyes, big nose, a seal-skin cap pulled over his ears, and his yellow beard descending in a point to his waist. His hands, covered with thick woollen gloves, were leaning on an enormous knotted stick. He wore a long hooded cloak of coarse cloth, and might well have passed for a hermit. Any time a fresh rumour -arose in some part or another, old Jerôme turned his head slowly round, +arose in some part or another, old Jerôme turned his head slowly round, and listened intently with knitted brows. Jean Labarbe, with his elbow on his axe, sat passively looking on. He @@ -2573,10 +2539,10 @@ of mind. When everyone was shouting around him: "We must deliberate; we can't stay doing nothing here!" he simply confined himself to saying: "Stop, Hullin has not come yet, nor -Catherine Lefévre." Then all were silent, and contented themselves with +Catherine Lefévre." Then all were silent, and contented themselves with looking eagerly towards the path leading from the Charmes. -The _ségare_,[8] Piorette, a little dry, lean, nervous man with black +The _ségare_,[8] Piorette, a little dry, lean, nervous man with black eyebrows meeting in front, the stump of a pipe between his lips, stood in front of his shed, watching, with an eye at once keen and thoughtful, the strange scene around him. @@ -2584,7 +2550,7 @@ thoughtful, the strange scene around him. The general impatience was, however, increasing from minute to minute. Some village mayors, in square-cut coats and three-cornered hats, proceeded towards the sawpit, and called upon the men of their -districts to deliberate. Very luckily, the cart of Catherine Lefévre at +districts to deliberate. Very luckily, the cart of Catherine Lefévre at length appeared in sight coming along the pathway, and immediately a thousand enthusiastic shouts rose on all sides. @@ -2606,7 +2572,7 @@ the back of his head, his gun slung over his shoulder. "Ah! ha! it's growing warm, Hullin." "Yes, yes; we shall hear the chestnuts burst in the fire this winter. -Good day, old Jerôme; we are engaged in a great enterprise now." +Good day, old Jerôme; we are engaged in a great enterprise now." "True, Jean-Claude. We must hope to accomplish it, with the blessing of God." @@ -2673,7 +2639,7 @@ depend the fate of all." Having thus spoken, Jean-Claude descended from his elevation, and all was bustle and excitement. Each village deliberated separately, each mayor proposed his man, and in the meanwhile time was going on. -Catherine Lefévre was burning with impatience. At length, unable to +Catherine Lefévre was burning with impatience. At length, unable to contain herself any longer, she stood up on her seat, and made a sign that she wished to speak. @@ -2689,12 +2655,12 @@ part, I propose Jean-Claude Hullin. Do you hear, down below there? If this goes on much longer, the Austrians will be here before we have chosen a leader." -"Yes! yes! Hullin!" exclaimed Labarbe, Divès, Jerôme, and several +"Yes! yes! Hullin!" exclaimed Labarbe, Divès, Jerôme, and several others. "Come, let us collect the votes for or against." -Then Marc Divès, climbing on to the trunks of timber, exclaimed, in +Then Marc Divès, climbing on to the trunks of timber, exclaimed, in a voice of thunder, "Let those who do not desire to have Jean-Claude Hullin for a leader hold up their hand." @@ -2711,10 +2677,10 @@ you whom they demand for a leader." Master Jean-Claude, having done as desired, saw that he was appointed, and at once spoke in a firm tone, and said:--"Good. You appoint me your leader. I accept the post. Let the elder Materne, Labarbe of Dagsburg, -Jerôme of Saint-Quirin, Marc Divès, Piorette the sawyer, and Catherine -Lefévre, go into the sawpit. We will hold a council. In a quarter of an +Jerôme of Saint-Quirin, Marc Divès, Piorette the sawyer, and Catherine +Lefévre, go into the sawpit. We will hold a council. In a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes I will issue orders. Meanwhile, let each village -supply two men to Marc Divès for the transport of powder and ball to +supply two men to Marc Divès for the transport of powder and ball to Falkenstein." [Illustration] @@ -2746,21 +2712,21 @@ round the fire in fifty years to come?" "Comrades," said Hullin, "you know all the country round; you have the mountain under your eyes from Thann to Wissembourg. You know that two highways, two imperial roads, cross Alsace and the Vosges. They -both come from Bâle; one follows the course of the Rhine as far as +both come from Bâle; one follows the course of the Rhine as far as Strasbourg, from whence it proceeds along the borders of the Saverne till it reaches Lorraine. It is protected by Huningen, Neuf-Brisach, Strasbourg, and Phalsbourg. The other turns to the left, and goes as far as Schlestadt; from Schlestadt it enters the mountain, and reaches -Saint-Dié, Raon-l'Etape, Bacarat, and Lunéville. At first the enemy +Saint-Dié, Raon-l'Etape, Bacarat, and Lunéville. At first the enemy wanted to force these two roads, as being better for the cavalry, artillery, and baggage; but as they are defended, we have nothing to fear on that head. If the Allies besiege the strong places--which will lengthen out the campaign--then we shall have nothing to fear; but that is not very probable. After having summoned Huningen to surrender, Belfort, Schlestadt, Strasbourg, and Phalsbourg, on this side of the -Vosges; Bitche, Lutzelstein, and Sarrebrück on the other, I think they +Vosges; Bitche, Lutzelstein, and Sarrebrück on the other, I think they will fall upon us. Now, listen to me well. Between Phalsbourg and -Saint-Dié there are several defiles for the infantry; but there is only +Saint-Dié there are several defiles for the infantry; but there is only one road available for cannon; that is the road from Strasbourg to Raon-les-Leaux by Urmatt, Mutzig, Lutzelhouse, Phramond, Grandfontaine. Once masters of this passage, the Allies could come down upon Lorraine. @@ -2787,7 +2753,7 @@ manoeuvre on our right, if they succeed in reaching Raon-l'Etape." is, to occupy the defiles of the Zorn and the Sarre on our left, and that of the Blanru on our right. The best way to guard a defile is by holding the heights; Piorette will, therefore, station himself with a -hundred men on the side of Raon-les-Leaux; Jerôme, on the Grosmann, +hundred men on the side of Raon-les-Leaux; Jerôme, on the Grosmann, with a like number, to defend the valley of the Sarre; and Labarbe, at the head of the rest, to overlook the hills of the Haslach. You will choose your men from among those of the nearest villages. The women @@ -2801,7 +2767,7 @@ but, as we must make the greatest haste, we will talk of that when you have all taken up your positions, and when there is no longer any fear of surprise on the part of the enemy." -"And I," exclaimed Marc Divès; "I shall have nothing to do, then? I am +"And I," exclaimed Marc Divès; "I shall have nothing to do, then? I am to remain with my arms folded looking at the others fighting?" "For you, your duty will be to overlook the transport of the @@ -2837,8 +2803,8 @@ To-morrow morning, at the latest, all the defiles of the mountain must be strongly occupied." They then came out of the shed, and Hullin, in presence of all, named -as leaders Labarbe, Jerôme, and Piorette; he then told all those of the -Sarre to assemble as soon as possible near the farm of Bois-de-Chênes +as leaders Labarbe, Jerôme, and Piorette; he then told all those of the +Sarre to assemble as soon as possible near the farm of Bois-de-Chênes with hatchets, pickaxes, and guns. "We will set out at two o'clock," said he, "and we will encamp on the Donon along the road. To-morrow, at daybreak, we will begin our entrenchments." @@ -2848,7 +2814,7 @@ them that the battle would doubtless commence at the Donon, and that they should, therefore, need some good marksmen in that part, at which they were greatly pleased. -Dame Lefévre had never appeared happier. As she got up again into her +Dame Lefévre had never appeared happier. As she got up again into her cart, she embraced Louise, and whispered in her ear: "All is going well. Jean-Claude is a man; he sees everything; he carries everyone along with him. Even me, who have known him for forty years, he @@ -2914,7 +2880,7 @@ the _ambulances_. be ready. Louise and I will make that our special care from this very evening; will we not, Louise?" -"Oh, yes! Mother Lefévre," murmured the young girl, enchanted to see +"Oh, yes! Mother Lefévre," murmured the young girl, enchanted to see that they had actually commenced the campaign; "we will work hard, day and night, if needs be. M. Lorquin may make his mind quite easy." @@ -2927,7 +2893,7 @@ strove hard to prevent his going to be massacred by the _kaiserlicks_; in short, the different episodes of his journey from Quibolo to the village of Charmes. Hullin, Materne, and his boys walked a few steps behind, with gun on shoulder, and in this way they ascended the -mountain, and directed their steps towards the farm of Bois-de-Chênes. +mountain, and directed their steps towards the farm of Bois-de-Chênes. [Illustration] @@ -2947,11 +2913,11 @@ to work to celebrate their future triumphs cup in hand. It chanced to be on a Tuesday, always a grand cooking day at the farm. -The great kitchen fire had been blazing since morning; old Duchêne, +The great kitchen fire had been blazing since morning; old Duchêne, in his shirt-sleeves, was drawing from the oven innumerable manchets of bread, the good smell of which pervaded the whole house. Annette took them from his hands, and piled them up in a corner of the hearth. -Louise waited on the guests, and Catherine Lefévre superintended +Louise waited on the guests, and Catherine Lefévre superintended everything, calling out as she did so: "Make haste, children, make haste, the third batch must be ready by the @@ -2963,16 +2929,16 @@ went. "What a woman!" he exclaimed, "what a woman! Go and find me such another the whole country round! She forgets nothing! The health of -Catherine Lefévre!" +Catherine Lefévre!" -"The health of Catherine Lefévre!" was loudly responded by all the rest. +"The health of Catherine Lefévre!" was loudly responded by all the rest. There was a renewed clinking of glasses, and then the talk fell again on marches, attacks, and entrenchments. Every one felt inspired by an invincible confidence; every one said to himself, "All will prosper." But Heaven was reserving for them on that day a still greater pleasure -and surprise, and especially for Louise and Dame Lefévre. Towards +and surprise, and especially for Louise and Dame Lefévre. Towards noon, just as a bright ray of the winter's sun was making the snow look whiter than ever and melting the hoar-frost on the window-panes, and the great red cock thrusting his head out of the fowl-house was @@ -2983,7 +2949,7 @@ succession of barks at once so joyous and so plaintive, that everyone's attention was attracted. The great kitchen fire was blazing at its height; the third batch was -being drawn from the oven, and yet Catherine Lefévre herself stopped to +being drawn from the oven, and yet Catherine Lefévre herself stopped to listen. "There is something going to happen," said she, in a low tone. @@ -3002,7 +2968,7 @@ spectators were speechless with surprise. He seemed unable to take a step farther, as he firmly put the butt-end of his gun to the ground. The tip of his eagle nose--the exact -counterpart of Dame Lefévre's--shone like bronze, his red moustaches +counterpart of Dame Lefévre's--shone like bronze, his red moustaches quivered; he looked just like one of those lean, hungry hawks driven by famine in winter to the stable doors. He looked straight into the kitchen, and his cheeks seemed to turn pale beneath their tinge of @@ -3012,7 +2978,7 @@ without being able to speak a word or advance a step. Out of doors the old dog kept leaping, and whining, and rattling his chain as if he would break it; within, not a sound could be heard but the crackling of the fire, so deep was the silence; but very soon -the voice of Catherine Lefévre was heard exclaiming, in heartrending +the voice of Catherine Lefévre was heard exclaiming, in heartrending tones:-- "Gaspard!--my child! It is you!" @@ -3024,7 +2990,7 @@ rose at once with a noise like thunder. All ran towards him, with Master Jean-Claude at their head, shouting: -"Gaspard!--Gaspard Lefévre!" +"Gaspard!--Gaspard Lefévre!" But Gaspard and his mother were clasped in each other's arms: this woman, usually so strong-minded, so courageous, was weeping @@ -3044,7 +3010,7 @@ kisses together. "Oh! yes--oh! yes, I knew you directly by your step." -Old Duchêne, with his cotton night-cap in his hand, stood by the fire +Old Duchêne, with his cotton night-cap in his hand, stood by the fire stammering: "Gracious Lord--is it possible? my poor child--how changed he is!" @@ -3072,7 +3038,7 @@ They looked at him again and again, staring him full in the face with countenances beaming with joy, as if to assure themselves that it was really he; then, linking their arms in his, they carried rather than led him into the kitchen, and Dame Catherine followed with his -knapsack, Louise with the gun, Duchêne with the tall shako, all +knapsack, Louise with the gun, Duchêne with the tall shako, all laughing and crying by turns, and drying their eyes and cheeks. You never saw anything like it. @@ -3115,9 +3081,9 @@ wondering looks the brave soldier, cutting, carving, quaffing, then casting tender glances at Louise and his mother, and replying to one and another without at the same time losing a single mouthful. -The farm people, Duchêne, Annette, Robin, and Dubourg, ranged behind in +The farm people, Duchêne, Annette, Robin, and Dubourg, ranged behind in a half-circle, stood gazing upon Gaspard in a sort of ecstasy; Louise -kept filling up his glass, while Dame Lefévre, sitting near the oven, +kept filling up his glass, while Dame Lefévre, sitting near the oven, looked over the contents of his knapsack, and finding there nothing but two old shirts quite black with dirt, and with holes large enough to put your hand in, a pair of shoes down at heel, an empty tobacco-pouch, @@ -3143,7 +3109,7 @@ us, Gaspard, if I may make so bold as to ask, how does it happen that you are here? We thought you were still on the Strasbourg side of the Rhine!" -"Ah! ha! old boy, I understand," said young Lefévre, with a knowing +"Ah! ha! old boy, I understand," said young Lefévre, with a knowing wink; "there are so many deserters; is it not so?" "Oh! such an idea as that would never enter my head! and yet----" @@ -3154,7 +3120,7 @@ answer to the muster-roll when the _kaiserlicks_ are in France, richly deserve to be shot! Make your mind happy; there's my leave." Hullin, who had no false delicacy, read: "Twenty-four hours' leave of -absence to Grenadier Gaspard Lefévre, of the 2nd company of the 1st +absence to Grenadier Gaspard Lefévre, of the 2nd company of the 1st regiment.--January the 3rd, 1814. GEMEAU, chief of the battalion." "Good, good," said he; "put it up in your knapsack; you might chance to lose it." @@ -3185,7 +3151,7 @@ evening at Phalsbourg." "Well and good; you have still seven hours before you. It will not take you more than six to get there, though there is a good deal of snow at -Foxthâl." +Foxthâl." The good woman came and sat down by her son. Her heart was full almost to bursting; she could not conceal her grief. Everyone was deeply @@ -3221,7 +3187,7 @@ wine, the general enthusiasm increased each moment, and every now and then vented itself in muttered expressions. "Oh! the dogs! the villains! let them beware! All is not over yet!" -Dame Lefévre admired the courage and good fortune of her son in the +Dame Lefévre admired the courage and good fortune of her son in the midst of these events, the memory of which will be preserved from generation to generation. But when Lagarmitte, grave and solemn, in his long gray gaberdine, his large black felt hat upon his head, his @@ -3234,8 +3200,8 @@ Louise threw her arms round Gaspard's neck, exclaiming: "Gaspard, do not leave us! Stay with us!" He turned very pale. "I am a soldier," said he; "my name is Gaspard -Lefévre; I love thee, Louise, a thousand times better than my own life, -but a Lefévre knows nothing but his duty!" And he unclasped her arms +Lefévre; I love thee, Louise, a thousand times better than my own life, +but a Lefévre knows nothing but his duty!" And he unclasped her arms from about his neck. Then Louise sank, half-fainting, down, and, with her head lying on the table, began to groan aloud. Gaspard rose. @@ -3266,7 +3232,7 @@ see you so miserable breaks my heart. Ah! if you had but a little firmness now, I should be happy." "Well, then, I have; kiss me. See, I am no longer the same. I will try -to be like our good mother Lefévre." +to be like our good mother Lefévre." They exchanged their parting embrace with more calmness. Hullin stood by, holding the gun; Catherine waved her hand, as much as to say, "Go, @@ -3283,7 +3249,7 @@ At the end of five minutes, at the turning by the great oak, Gaspard looked round, and waved his hand. Catherine and Louise answered him. Hullin then came forward to meet his men. Doctor Lorquin alone remained with the women; when Gaspard, continuing his way, was quite -out of sight, he exclaimed:--"Catherine Lefévre, you may be proud of +out of sight, he exclaimed:--"Catherine Lefévre, you may be proud of having so brave a man for your son. Heaven speed and prosper him!" They heard the distant voices of the new-comers, who were laughing @@ -3298,10 +3264,10 @@ CHAPTER XI. Whilst Hullin, at the Head of the mountaineers, was taking his measures -for the defence of his country, the fool Yégof--that being deprived of +for the defence of his country, the fool Yégof--that being deprived of the blessing of self-consciousness, that unhappy creature with his tin crown, that sad spectacle of humanity shorn of its noblest, greatest, -most vital attribute, intelligence--the fool Yégof, his breast exposed +most vital attribute, intelligence--the fool Yégof, his breast exposed to the cutting wind, his feet bare, insensible to cold, like the reptile in his icy prison, was wandering from mountain to mountain, in the midst of the snows of winter. @@ -3315,7 +3281,7 @@ effect of the over-excitement of the senses, or any other unknown cause? Science says nothing. She admits only material causes, powerless to give an account of such phenomena. -So Yégof went on at random, and night came. The cold was redoubled, the +So Yégof went on at random, and night came. The cold was redoubled, the fox gnashed his teeth in the pursuit of an invisible prey; the famished buzzard fell back with empty claws among the bushes, uttering a cry of distress. He, with his raven on his shoulder, gesticulating, jabbering, @@ -3323,7 +3289,7 @@ as if in a dream, kept marching, marching on, from Holderloch to Sonneberg, from Sonneberg to Blutfeld. Now, on this particular night, the old shepherd, Robin, of the farm of -Bois-de-Chêne, was destined to be the witness of a most strange and +Bois-de-Chêne, was destined to be the witness of a most strange and fearful sight. Some days before, having been overtaken by the first fall of snow at @@ -3392,23 +3358,23 @@ and knees, and found, very fortunately, not only his sheepskin, but even an old hatchet which he had quite forgotten. But judge of his surprise when, on issuing from it, he saw the fool -Yégof appear at the turn of the footpath, and come straight towards him +Yégof appear at the turn of the footpath, and come straight towards him in the bright moonlight. The honest man immediately remembered the terrible story told in the -kitchen of Bois-de-Chênes, and he felt afraid; but quite another +kitchen of Bois-de-Chênes, and he felt afraid; but quite another feeling came over him when behind the fool, at fifteen or twenty paces, he beheld, stealthily approaching in their turn, five grey wolves, two big and three smaller ones. At first he took them for dogs, but they were wolves. They followed -Yégof step by step, and he did not appear to see them; his raven +Yégof step by step, and he did not appear to see them; his raven hovered overhead, flitting from the full moonlight to the shadow of the rocks, and then returning; the wolves, with flaming eyes, their sharp muzzles turned up, were sniffing the air; the fool raised his sceptre. The shepherd pulled to the door of the shed as quick as lightning, but -Yégof did not see him. He advanced into the gorge as into a spacious +Yégof did not see him. He advanced into the gorge as into a spacious audience-chamber; to the right and left rose the steep rocks, far above which myriads of stars were shining. You might have heard a fly move; the wolves trod the ground noiselessly; not a sound was there, and the @@ -3422,7 +3388,7 @@ Robin said to himself:--"The fool sees nothing, hears nothing; they will devour him. If he stumbles, if his foot slips, it is all over with him." -But in the middle of the gorge, Yégof, having turned round, sat down +But in the middle of the gorge, Yégof, having turned round, sat down upon a stone, and the five wolves, all round him, still sniffing the air, squatted on their haunches in the snow. @@ -3431,7 +3397,7 @@ addressed a speech to them, calling them each by their names. The wolves answered him with dismal howls. -Now this is what he said to them:--"Hé! Child, Bléed, Merweg, and thou, +Now this is what he said to them:--"Hé! Child, Bléed, Merweg, and thou, Sirimar, my ancient, we are met together, then, once again! You have come back fat. There has been good cheer in Germany, eh?" @@ -3453,7 +3419,7 @@ But the wolves still continued to utter their dismal howlings, awakening all the echoes of the Blutfeld. At last one, the oldest of the number, was silent, then another, then -all, and Yégof continued:--"Yes, yes; that is a dismal story. See! +all, and Yégof continued:--"Yes, yes; that is a dismal story. See! behold! there is the river down which our blood flowed in streams! No matter, Merweg, no matter; the others have left their bones to whiten on the common, and the cold moon has seen their women tearing @@ -3465,7 +3431,7 @@ The fool had cast his crown to the ground. He now picked it up, groaning as he did so. The wolves, still seated round, listened to him like attentive -spectators. The biggest among them began to howl, and Yégof answered +spectators. The biggest among them began to howl, and Yégof answered his complaint. "You are hungry, Sirimar; take comfort, take comfort; you will not want @@ -3502,7 +3468,7 @@ distant echoes replying with a mysterious voice to the mournful concert, all were calculated to strike terror into the breast of the old shepherd. -But by degrees his fears grew less, for Yégof and his dismal followers +But by degrees his fears grew less, for Yégof and his dismal followers were getting farther and farther away from him, and gradually retreating towards Hazlach. @@ -3517,10 +3483,10 @@ not a sound broke the deep silence of the winter night, when the worthy man felt himself sufficiently recovered from his fright to come out of his hiding-place, and take his way back at full speed to the farm. -On arriving at Bois-de-Chênes, he found everybody up and stirring. +On arriving at Bois-de-Chênes, he found everybody up and stirring. They were going to kill an ox for the troops from the Donon. Hullin, Doctor Lorquin, and Louise were already gone with the men from the -Sarre. Catherine Lefévre was busy, having her great waggon, with four +Sarre. Catherine Lefévre was busy, having her great waggon, with four horses, loaded with bread, meat, and brandy. People were coming and going in all directions, and all eagerly lending a helping hand in the preparations. @@ -3530,7 +3496,7 @@ heard. Besides, it seemed to himself so incredible that he really dared not open his mouth about it. When he had retired to rest in his crib in the middle of the stable, -he said to himself that no doubt Yégof had, during the winter, tamed a +he said to himself that no doubt Yégof had, during the winter, tamed a litter of young wolves, and that he babbled his folly to them in the same way that one talks sometimes to one's dog. @@ -3597,7 +3563,7 @@ magnificent sides of bacon, of a beautiful red and white, so temptingly blended, hanging before the fire on spits of green wood, and yielding their luscious fat drop by drop on the embers, and to go and fill their drinking-cups at a little barrel of brandy placed on Catherine -Lefévre's cart. +Lefévre's cart. About eight o'clock in the morning, a man suddenly made his appearance between the Great and Little Donon; the sentinels immediately observed @@ -3969,7 +3935,7 @@ poor Materne! if you did but know--if you did but know!" "No, but they are swallowing up everything without mercy. Old Ursule, of Schlestadt, who arrived here yesterday evening, says that the -Austrians will have nothing but _knoépfe_ and _noudels_, the Russians +Austrians will have nothing but _knoépfe_ and _noudels_, the Russians _schnaps_, and the Bavarians _sour-krout_. And when they've stuffed themselves with all that up to their very throats, they keep still calling out, with their mouths full: '_schokolate! schokolate!_' My @@ -3988,7 +3954,7 @@ your barrels." One of the girls went down into the cellar, and just at that moment several other people came in--an almanack-seller from the Strasbourg -side, a waggoner in his smock-frock from Sarrebrück, and two or three +side, a waggoner in his smock-frock from Sarrebrück, and two or three of the inhabitants of Mutzig, of Hirsch, and of Schirmeck, who were escaping with their flocks and herds, and had hardly strength left to speak. @@ -4190,7 +4156,7 @@ Occasionally, too, he made reflections on the Cossack: "What a droll face, eh? a round nose, and a forehead like a cheese-box. There are, for certain, some strange fellows in the world! You took good aim at him, Kasper; hit him just in the middle of the chest; and see, the ball -has come out at the back. Famous powder; Divès always keeps capital +has come out at the back. Famous powder; Divès always keeps capital stuff." About six o'clock they heard the first challenge of their sentinels: @@ -4277,7 +4243,7 @@ the Cossacks at Framont, he was convinced that the first attack would take place on the morrow. He had distributed the cartridges, he had doubled the sentinels, ordered the patrols, and allotted all the posts the whole length of the defences. Every one knew beforehand the place -he was to occupy. Hullin had also sent word to Piorette, to Jerôme of +he was to occupy. Hullin had also sent word to Piorette, to Jerôme of Saint-Quirin, and to Labarbe to despatch to him their best marksmen. The little dark passage, lit only by a solitary lantern, was full of @@ -4302,14 +4268,14 @@ horses." "Let them keep a good look out upon Grandfontaine, and change the sentinels on that side every half-hour. Bring the brandy to the fire. -Wait till Divès comes; he will bring a fresh supply of ammunition. +Wait till Divès comes; he will bring a fresh supply of ammunition. Distribute the rest of the cartridges, and let those who have more than twenty give some to their comrades." And this was how it went on all night long. About five in the morning, Kasper, Materne's son, came to tell Hullin -that Marc Divès, with a cartload of cartridges, Catherine Lefévre +that Marc Divès, with a cartload of cartridges, Catherine Lefévre in another vehicle, and a detachment from Labarbe, had just arrived together, and that they were there awaiting him. @@ -4337,19 +4303,19 @@ stamping with their feet to warm themselves, and talking loud. "Here is Master Jean-Claude," said Kasper, advancing. One of the men having thrown some splinters of dry wood on to the -fire, there was a blaze, and by its light were seen Marc Divès's men +fire, there was a blaze, and by its light were seen Marc Divès's men on horseback, a dozen strapping fellows wrapped in their long grey cloaks, their broad-brimmed hats pushed back on to their shoulders, their thick moustaches either turned up, or falling down to their very necks, grouped motionless around the baggage waggon; a little farther -on was Catherine Lefévre, crouching among the packages in her cart, her +on was Catherine Lefévre, crouching among the packages in her cart, her feet buried in the straw, her back against a large barrel; behind her was a cauldron, a gridiron, a pig fresh killed, scalded, white and red, some ropes of onions, and heads of cabbages to make soup; all this was revealed for an instant in the shadow, and then fell back again into darkness. -Divès was a little apart from the convoy, and now rode forward on his +Divès was a little apart from the convoy, and now rode forward on his great horse. "Is that you, Jean-Claude?" "Yes, Marc." @@ -4358,7 +4324,7 @@ great horse. "Is that you, Jean-Claude?" "Good! Good!" -"Yes, old boy. And Catherine Lefévre is bringing provisions, too; she +"Yes, old boy. And Catherine Lefévre is bringing provisions, too; she killed yesterday. Where shall we put the powder?" "Down below there; under the cart-shed, behind the farm. Ah! is that @@ -4400,18 +4366,18 @@ my light is shining." "Poor child!" said Catherine, "I will run and help her, that will warm me." -At this moment, Divès and his men were taking the powder to the +At this moment, Divès and his men were taking the powder to the cart-house, and as Jean-Claude approached the nearest fire, what was -not his surprise to see among those surrounding it, the fool Yégof, +not his surprise to see among those surrounding it, the fool Yégof, with his crown on his head, gravely seated on a stone, his feet on the embers, and with his rags draped around him like a royal mantle. Nothing more singular can be imagined than the appearance of this -strange figure in the firelight. Yégof was the only one of the number +strange figure in the firelight. Yégof was the only one of the number who was awake, and he might really have been taken for some barbarous king, musing in the midst of his sleeping horde of savages. Hullin, for his part, saw only a fool, and gently touching his -shoulder: "How are you, Yégof?" said he, in an ironical tone; "you +shoulder: "How are you, Yégof?" said he, in an ironical tone; "you have come, then, to lend the succour of your invincible arm, and your innumerable armies!" @@ -4421,7 +4387,7 @@ hands. Here are we, just as we were sixteen hundred years ago, on the eve of a great battle. Then I, the leader of so many peoples, I came to your khan to demand the passage." -"Sixteen hundred years ago!" said Hullin; "what the deuce, Yégof, that +"Sixteen hundred years ago!" said Hullin; "what the deuce, Yégof, that makes us terribly old! But, after all, what does it matter? Every one has his own notion of things." @@ -4432,14 +4398,14 @@ dead cry aloud for vengeance!" "Ah! the Blutfeld," said Jean-Claude; "yes, yes, it's an old story; I think I've heard tell of it." -Yégof's brow grew crimson; his eyes flashed fire. "You boast of your +Yégof's brow grew crimson; his eyes flashed fire. "You boast of your victory!" he exclaimed, "but take care, take care: blood calls for blood." Then, in a gentler tone: "Listen," added he, "I wish you no ill: you are brave; the children of your race may mingle with those of mine." "Ah! now he is coming back again to Louise," thought Jean-Claude; and, -anticipating a formal demand: "Yégof," said he, "I am sorry, but I must +anticipating a formal demand: "Yégof," said he, "I am sorry, but I must leave you; I have so many things to see to----" The fool did not wait the end of this leave-taking, and rising with his @@ -4516,7 +4482,7 @@ cultivated by our fathers; they are our lawful property." is written, 'Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not shed thy brother's blood.'" -Catherine Lefévre, who was just at that time busy with a rasher of +Catherine Lefévre, who was just at that time busy with a rasher of ham, and who was doubtless tired of this discussion, turned sharply round, and replied, "Which means that, if we were of your religion, the Germans, the Russians, and all the other red men would be allowed to @@ -4742,7 +4708,7 @@ Riffi, the little tailor, bethought him of the prudent warning of his wife, Sapience: "Riffi, you will get lamed for life, and that will be a pretty job!" -He promised a superb offering to the chapel of St. Léon if he came back +He promised a superb offering to the chapel of St. Léon if he came back safe and sound from the war; but at the same time he resolved to make good use of his long gun. @@ -4877,7 +4843,7 @@ sword-cut, wanted to stay and go on fighting; but the doctor would not listen to this, and forced him to return to the farm. Louise came with the little cart and distributed brandy to the -combatants; and Catherine Lefévre, on the edge of the ascent, stood +combatants; and Catherine Lefévre, on the edge of the ascent, stood looking upon the dead and wounded lying thickly scattered along the road, which was tracked with their blood. There they lay, poor fellows, young and old, all heaped indiscriminately together, with faces as @@ -4900,7 +4866,7 @@ Hans, Kasper, Nickel of the 1st or 2nd company?' they will answer, Fair or brown hair, five or six feet in height? Yes, I know him. He is left in France, by the side of a little village whose name I don't remember. The mountaineers massacred him on the same day as the big -major Yéri Peter; he was a brave lad. And so good night.'" +major Yéri Peter; he was a brave lad. And so good night.'" Perhaps, among the number, there might have been one who thought of his mother; of a pretty girl in his own country, Gretchen or Lotchen, @@ -4908,7 +4874,7 @@ who had given him a riband while crying her eyes out as he was setting off--"I shall wait for your coming back, Kasper; I shall never marry any one but you!" Ah, my poor lass, you will have to wait a long while! -It was not a pleasant sight to look upon, and as Dame Lefévre beheld +It was not a pleasant sight to look upon, and as Dame Lefévre beheld it, she thought of her own Gaspard. Hullin, who had just arrived with Lagarmitte, called out, in a jovial @@ -4917,7 +4883,7 @@ tone: "Well, my lads, you have smelt powder; a thousand thunders! This will do. The Germans have nothing to boast of in this day's work." -Then he embraced Louise, and ran to Dame Lefévre. +Then he embraced Louise, and ran to Dame Lefévre. "Are you contented, Catherine? Things are going well with us. But what's the matter? I see no smile on your face." @@ -4936,12 +4902,12 @@ one, who is binding up his leg with his handkerchief?" steps in the ice to descend to them, and then the Germans, who will be sure to be back in an hour or two, would follow us by them. Come away. We must announce the victory to all the villages round; to Labarbe, to -Jerôme, to Piorette. Here, Simon, Niklo, Marchal, come here; you must +Jerôme, to Piorette. Here, Simon, Niklo, Marchal, come here; you must set off at once to carry the great news to our comrades. Materne, you keep a sharp look-out, and at the slightest movement, let me know." As they drew near the farm, Jean-Claude saw the reserve body, with -Marc Divès on horseback in the midst of his men. The smuggler was +Marc Divès on horseback in the midst of his men. The smuggler was complaining bitterly of having been left, as he called it, to fold his arms and do nothing. He looked upon himself as dishonoured, for having borne no part in the late fray. @@ -4950,7 +4916,7 @@ borne no part in the late fray. protecting us on our right. Just look down below there. If we are attacked in that direction, you shall march to the defence." -Divès said nothing; his face wore an expression at once sad and +Divès said nothing; his face wore an expression at once sad and indignant; and his tall followers, wrapped in their cloaks, with their long rapiers suspended outside, did not seem to be in a bit better humour: they looked as if they were plotting vengeance. @@ -4983,7 +4949,7 @@ lamentations on horseback, and his plaintive cries and entreaties, laughed till their sides ached. It was eleven o'clock. These comings and goings lasted till noon, the -moment when Marc Divès suddenly entered, exclaiming, "Hullin! where is +moment when Marc Divès suddenly entered, exclaiming, "Hullin! where is Hullin?" "Here I am." @@ -4994,7 +4960,7 @@ triumphant. Jean-Claude followed him, greatly alarmed, and the large room was cleared in an instant, for every one was convinced, by Marc's excited manner, that something serious had happened. -To the right of the Donon extends the ravine of the Minières, where +To the right of the Donon extends the ravine of the Minières, where rages a torrent when the snow begins to melt: it descends from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the valley. @@ -5013,7 +4979,7 @@ field-pieces drawn on heavy carriages, and seemingly suspended over the precipice. All were pushing hard at the wheels, and in a few moments more the cannons would reach the platform. It was like a thunderbolt to Jean-Claude; he turned pale, and then went in a fearful rage with -Divès. "Could you not have warned me sooner?" he roared. "Did I not bid +Divès. "Could you not have warned me sooner?" he roared. "Did I not bid you, above all things, to keep a good look-out on the ravine? We are surprised; they will take us in flank; cut off the road. Everything is gone to the devil!" @@ -5035,7 +5001,7 @@ to set out from Framont." True enough, another column, much stronger than the first, was then leaving Framont, and advancing, at the double, towards the defences. -Divès said not a word. Hullin, governing his anger, grew suddenly calm +Divès said not a word. Hullin, governing his anger, grew suddenly calm in the presence of such imminent danger. "Go back to your posts," said he to the spectators, in a sharp voice; @@ -5044,7 +5010,7 @@ attention!" The old huntsman bowed. -Meanwhile, Marc Divès had recovered his self-possession. "Instead of +Meanwhile, Marc Divès had recovered his self-possession. "Instead of brawling like a woman," said he, "you would do better to give me the order to begin the attack down below there by defending the ravine by the fir-trees." @@ -5058,7 +5024,7 @@ miss your blow, we'll cut our throats together." Then, leaping on to his horse, and throwing the skirt of his cloak over his shoulder, he drew his long rapier with a haughty and defiant -air. His men followed his example closely. Then Divès, turning towards +air. His men followed his example closely. Then Divès, turning towards the reserve, composed of fifty stalwart mountaineers, pointed to the platform with the point of his sword, and said: "You see that, my lads; we want that position. The men of Dagsburg must never be able to say @@ -5142,7 +5108,7 @@ assailants. This sight brought every one to the trench, and the combat was renewed more fiercely--more desperately than at the first attack. Hullin had remarked the ladders before Materne, and his indignation -against Divès was increased by the sight; but as, in such a case, +against Divès was increased by the sight; but as, in such a case, indignation is of no earthly use whatever, he had despatched Lagarmitte to desire Frantz Materne, who was posted on the other side of the Donon, to come to him with all haste with half of his men. I leave you @@ -5158,7 +5124,7 @@ you will never get here at that rate." He was actually trembling with rage, attributing the whole misfortune to the smuggler. -In the meanwhile, Mark Divès, at the end of about half an hour, had +In the meanwhile, Mark Divès, at the end of about half an hour, had made the round of the ravine, and from the back of his tall horse was just beginning to discover the two companies of Germans with grounded arms, a hundred paces behind the guns, which were firing on the @@ -5179,7 +5145,7 @@ two shots; then a great shout, "Hurrah for France!" and the heavy dull sound of rushing footsteps; the brave mountaineers were falling upon the enemy like a troop of wolves! -Divès, standing upright in his stirrups, with his long nose and +Divès, standing upright in his stirrups, with his long nose and bristling moustaches, was laughingly looking on: "It's all right," he kept saying to himself. @@ -5210,18 +5176,18 @@ every imaginable weapon that the artillerymen had at hand, rained round them as thick as hail. They were all parried beforehand, and every stroke brought a man down. -Marc Divès met the fire of two pistols full in his face; one of the +Marc Divès met the fire of two pistols full in his face; one of the shots blackened his left cheek, and the other carried away his hat. He, bending over his saddle, with his long arm outstretched, pinned at the same moment the tall officer with light moustaches to one of the guns. To conceive the effect of this terrible scene, we must picture to -ourselves the deadly conflict on the heights of the Minières; the +ourselves the deadly conflict on the heights of the Minières; the groans of the dying, the neighing of the horses, the cries of rage, the flight of some, casting away their weapons to run more quickly, the savage ardour of others. -Marc Divès was not of a contemplative turn: he did not waste time in +Marc Divès was not of a contemplative turn: he did not waste time in making poetical reflections on the tumult and senseless fury of the wars men wage with each other. He saw the situation at a glance, and leaping from his horse, flung himself upon the first cannon, still @@ -5241,7 +5207,7 @@ through their ranks. At the tenth discharge there was a general rout. About six hundred men perished on that day. There were mountaineers, and there were _Kaiserlicks_ in far greater numbers; but had it not -been for the cannonade of Divès all would have been lost. +been for the cannonade of Divès all would have been lost. [Illustration] @@ -5268,7 +5234,7 @@ barricades in one confused, mingled sound. On the mountain-side nothing was to be seen but arms, shakos, and dead bodies; in short, all the signs of a great defeat. Opposite appeared -the cannons taken by Marc Divès, pointed over the valley, and ready to +the cannons taken by Marc Divès, pointed over the valley, and ready to fire in case of a fresh attack. All was then over--quite over. And yet not a single cry of triumph rose @@ -5373,7 +5339,7 @@ a man at each arm, and a bucket just under him. Doctor Lorquin, his shirt-sleeves turned up to his elbows, a short saw about three fingers broad in his hand, was just preparing to cut off the poor devil's leg, while Despois was holding a large sponge. The blood was splashing -down into the bucket. Colard was as pale as death. Catherine Lefévre, +down into the bucket. Colard was as pale as death. Catherine Lefévre, standing beside him with a roll of lint over her arm, was striving to be firm, but two deep wrinkles that furrowed her cheeks by the side of her hooked nose showed how she was clenching her teeth. She was looking @@ -5495,7 +5461,7 @@ have you to fear? The good God is always the same!" At this moment, the hum of voices was heard on their right. -"It is Marc Divès and Hullin," said Kasper, listening. +"It is Marc Divès and Hullin," said Kasper, listening. "Oh, yes! they have been, no doubt, making barricades behind the fir forest to protect the cannon," added Frantz. @@ -5537,7 +5503,7 @@ what can you do? It's the chance of war. You're not hit, you fellows?" "So much the better, so much the better. Those who are left may boast of having been lucky." -"Yes," exclaimed Marc Divès, laughing; "there was a moment when I +"Yes," exclaimed Marc Divès, laughing; "there was a moment when I thought Materne was going to sound a parley; but for those cannon-shots at the end, by my faith! things were taking a bad turn." @@ -5606,7 +5572,7 @@ little resolute tone that quite took him by surprise. "Come, Come, Katel! let's be quick; it's near supper-time. We mustn't let our people be hungry. Since six o'clock this morning to have eaten nothing, and fighting hard all the while! We mustn't keep them waiting. -Now then, Lesselé, come along, stir yourself--salt, pepper!" +Now then, Lesselé, come along, stir yourself--salt, pepper!" Jean-Claude's heart leapt within him at the sound of this voice. He could not resist the pleasure of looking through the window for a @@ -5624,7 +5590,7 @@ perfection her sloping shoulders and graceful neck. There she was, in the very heat of action, going and coming, and tasting the dishes with her little bustling, housewifely air, trying the soup, approving and criticising. "A little more salt, a little of this, a little of that. -Lesselé, won't you soon have finished plucking our great scraggy cock? +Lesselé, won't you soon have finished plucking our great scraggy cock? At this rate, we shall never be ready." It was really a charming sight to see her take the command thus. @@ -5636,19 +5602,19 @@ the other, fat and plump, who waddled like a goose, lifting her feet slowly one after the other, and balancing herself with her arms akimbo; these two honest girls formed the strangest contrast to Louise. The fat Katel went to and fro quite out of breath, without saying a word, while -Lesselé, in an absent, dreamy way, did all by rule and compass. +Lesselé, in an absent, dreamy way, did all by rule and compass. The worthy Anabaptist himself, seated at the other end of the wash-house on a wooden chair, with his legs across, his head turned up, his cotton cap on the back of his head, and his hands in the pockets of his gaberdine, was watching everything with a look of astonishment, -and saying from time to time, in a sententious voice: "Lesselé, Katel, +and saying from time to time, in a sententious voice: "Lesselé, Katel, do just as she bids you, my children; it will be a good lesson for you; you've not yet seen the world; you must get on quicker." "Yes, yes; we must bustle about," Louise would rejoin; "what would become of us if we were to take months and weeks to consider about -putting a little garlic in the sauce? You, Lesselé, you are the +putting a little garlic in the sauce? You, Lesselé, you are the tallest; just reach me down that rope of onions from the ceiling." And the tall girl instantly did as she was bid. @@ -5705,7 +5671,7 @@ you, Louise," he replied, after a pause, "were you not afraid during the last battle?" "Well, I was at first; all that noise, and those cannon shots; but -afterwards, I thought of nothing but you and Mother Lefévre." +afterwards, I thought of nothing but you and Mother Lefévre." Master Jean-Claude became silent. "I knew," he was thinking, "that that child had a brave heart. She thinks of everything, and fears nothing." @@ -5714,9 +5680,9 @@ Louise then, taking him by the hand, led him in front of a regiment of saucepans all round the fire, and proudly pointed out to him all her cookery. "Here is the beef, here is the roast meat, here is the supper for General Jean-Claude, and here is the soup for our wounded. Ah! -we've had to make haste! Lesselé and Katel can tell you. And here is +we've had to make haste! Lesselé and Katel can tell you. And here is our great batch of bread!" She went on pointing to a long row of loaves -ranged on the table. "Mother Lefévre and I baked it." +ranged on the table. "Mother Lefévre and I baked it." Hullin listened, quite wonderstruck. @@ -5727,13 +5693,13 @@ wash-house, and the kitchen was immediately filled with an odour of delicious cake that rejoiced the heart. Master Jean-Claude was quite overcome. -At this moment Dame Lefévre entered the room. "Come," said she; "we +At this moment Dame Lefévre entered the room. "Come," said she; "we must lay the table; everybody is ready and waiting. Come, Katel, go and lay the cloth." The fat girl ran quickly out, and then, all together crossing the dark court-yard, one behind the other, proceeded towards the keeping-room -of the farm. There they found Doctor Lorquin, Despois, Marc Divès, +of the farm. There they found Doctor Lorquin, Despois, Marc Divès, Materne, and his two sons, all sharp-set, and provided with good stout appetites, impatiently awaiting the arrival of the soup. @@ -5743,10 +5709,10 @@ appetites, impatiently awaiting the arrival of the soup. to do; but the weather is favourable; there is no fear of putrid fevers, and all is going as well as can be." -Katel, Lesselé, and Louise shortly after entered, carrying an enormous +Katel, Lesselé, and Louise shortly after entered, carrying an enormous smoking soup-tureen, and two magnificent joints of roast beef, which they placed upon the table. They took their places without any -ceremony, old Materne to the right of Jean-Claude, Catherine Lefévre on +ceremony, old Materne to the right of Jean-Claude, Catherine Lefévre on his left, and from that time the clattering of knives and forks, and the opening of bottles, took the place of conversation until half-past eight in the evening. Out of doors, the reflection of bright fires on @@ -5754,7 +5720,7 @@ the window-panes announced that the other volunteers were also enjoying themselves, and doing justice to Louise's cookery, which still further contributed to the satisfaction of the guests within. -At nine o'clock, Marc Divès was on his way to Falkenstein with the +At nine o'clock, Marc Divès was on his way to Falkenstein with the prisoners. By ten o'clock every one was asleep at the farm, and on the mountain around the camp fires. @@ -5779,7 +5745,7 @@ CHAPTER XIX. Throughout the whole of the battle and until night-fall, the folks -of Grandfontaine had seen the fool Yégof standing on the summit +of Grandfontaine had seen the fool Yégof standing on the summit of the Little Donon, his crown on his head, his sceptre uplifted, transmitting, like a Merovingian king, orders to his imaginary armies. @@ -5825,11 +5791,11 @@ its neighbourhood. In this way Berbel lived at her ease, by folding her arms, and the other by clucking and pecking for it wherever it was to be found. -Unfortunately for the two sisters, Yégof had established, for a +Unfortunately for the two sisters, Yégof had established, for a number of years past, his winter residence in Luitprandt's Cave. It was from thence that he took his departure in the spring, to visit his innumerable castles, and pass in review his fiefs as far as -Geierstein, in the Hundsrück. Every year, therefore, towards the end of +Geierstein, in the Hundsrück. Every year, therefore, towards the end of November, after the first snows, he came with his raven, which always produced a succession of eagle-like croaks from Wetterhexe. @@ -5846,13 +5812,13 @@ of the German warriors interred in the cavern sixteen centuries ago, calling them by their names, and speaking to them like living beings. I leave you to imagine whether Berbel and Kateline saw the fool arrive with pleasure; to them it was a positive calamity. Now, this year, -Yégof not having come, the two sisters thought he was dead, and were +Yégof not having come, the two sisters thought he was dead, and were rejoicing in the idea of never seeing him any more. During the last few days, however, Wetterhexe had remarked the agitation that prevailed in the neighbouring gorges; people departing in large bodies, gun on shoulder, from the regions of the Falkenstein and the Donon. Evidently something out of the common was taking place. The witch, remembering -that the year before Yégof had related to the souls of the warriors +that the year before Yégof had related to the souls of the warriors that his innumerable followers were shortly going to invade the country, felt a sort of vague uneasiness. She would have given anything to know the reason of this unusual disturbance, but no one came up to @@ -5868,7 +5834,7 @@ the sound of a tempest amid the thousand echoes of the mountain; and in the distance, towards the Donon, swift lightnings flashed across the sky between the tall tops of the mountains; then, towards night, noises still more deep and formidable resounded through the silent gorges. At -each explosion, the summits of the Hengst, the Gantzlée, the Giromani, +each explosion, the summits of the Hengst, the Gantzlée, the Giromani, the Grosmann, were heard to echo back their answer through the very depths of the abyss. @@ -5902,7 +5868,7 @@ with discordant clamours, was heard on the mountain-side. Berbel listened; she recognised the sound of the human voice. Then rising, all of a tremble, and armed with her large thistle, she glided to the entrance of the rock, pushed the bushes aside, and saw, at the -distance of fifty paces, the fool Yégof, advancing in the bright +distance of fifty paces, the fool Yégof, advancing in the bright moonlight. Flourishing his sceptre in the air, he was calling upon his followers, and fighting and struggling as if he were in the thick of a battle. This fearful conflict with invisible beings struck Berbel @@ -5913,7 +5879,7 @@ the hot spring boiling more than usual, and clouds of steam rise from it, then detach themselves and move in floating masses towards the door. And whilst, like phantoms, these thick clouds were slowly advancing, -Yégof appeared, exclaiming, in a sharp voice: "At last you are here. +Yégof appeared, exclaiming, in a sharp voice: "At last you are here. You have heard me!" Then, with a rapid gesture, he put aside every impediment: a rush of @@ -5922,7 +5888,7 @@ over the spacious canopy of heaven, wreathing and twisting themselves over the rock as if the dead of that day, and those of centuries past, had renewed, in other spheres, the eternal combat. -Yégof, his features livid and contracted beneath the moon's pale rays, +Yégof, his features livid and contracted beneath the moon's pale rays, his sceptre outstretched, his long beard descending to his breast, and his eyes flashing, saluted each imaginary phantom with a gesture, and called it by its name, saying: "Hail, Bled! hail, Roug! and all of you, @@ -5930,7 +5896,7 @@ my brave companions, hail! The hour you have waited for for centuries is near; the eagles are sharpening their beaks, the earth thirsts for blood; remember the Blutfeld!" -Then Yégof abruptly entered the cavern, and crouched down near the +Then Yégof abruptly entered the cavern, and crouched down near the spring, with his huge head between his hands, and his elbows on his knees, watching the bubbling of the water, with a wild and haggard eye. @@ -5938,7 +5904,7 @@ Kateline had just awoke, and her clucking sounded like sobs; Wetterhexe, more dead than alive, was watching the fool from the darkest corner of the cavern. -"They have all risen from the earth!" suddenly exclaimed Yégof--"all, +"They have all risen from the earth!" suddenly exclaimed Yégof--"all, all! there are none left; they are gone to revive the courage of my young men, and inspire them with contempt for death!" and, raising his pale face, impressed with the expression of bitter grief, "They fought @@ -5962,9 +5928,9 @@ the raven, Hans, dashed wildly into the cavern, and began to describe wide circles overhead, flapping his wings in a frightened manner, and uttering dismal croakings. -Yégof turned as pale as a corpse. +Yégof turned as pale as a corpse. -"Vòd, Vòd!" he exclaimed, in heartrending tones, "what has thy son +"Vòd, Vòd!" he exclaimed, in heartrending tones, "what has thy son Luitprandt done to thee?" And for a few seconds he remained as if terror-stricken; but suddenly @@ -6047,7 +6013,7 @@ replied: "Troubled! and what about? The enemy is in full retreat. Only just now, Frantz Materne, whom I had sent to reconnoitre, and all the scouts from -Piorette, from Jerôme, and from Labarbe, have come to tell me that the +Piorette, from Jerôme, and from Labarbe, have come to tell me that the Germans are returning to Mutzig. Old Materne and Kasper, after helping to remove the dead, were informed at Grandfontaine that there was nothing to be seen of them on the side of Saint Blaize-la-Roche. All @@ -6061,7 +6027,7 @@ me again," said she: "I have had a dream." "A dream?" -"Yes, the same that I had at the farm of Bois-des-Chênes." +"Yes, the same that I had at the farm of Bois-des-Chênes." Then, growing excited, she went on in almost an angry tone: @@ -6073,18 +6039,18 @@ sleep, and that you recognise again. Listen. We were, as to-day, after a great victory, somewhere, I don't know where, in a sort of great wooden barrack, with heavy rafters across, and palings round it. We were not in fear of anything; all the faces that I saw, I knew; you -were there, and Marc Divès, and many others, old people dead long ago; +were there, and Marc Divès, and many others, old people dead long ago; my father, and old Hugh Rochart, of the Harberg, uncle of the one who has just died, all wearing gaberdines of thick grey cloth, long beards, and bare-necked. We had just won a similar victory, and we were drinking out of a large red earthen pot, when suddenly a cry was -raised: "The enemy is returning!" and Yégof, on horseback, with his +raised: "The enemy is returning!" and Yégof, on horseback, with his long beard, his pointed crown, a hatchet in his hand, his eyes glaring like those of a wolf, appeared before me in the darkness of the night. I rush upon him with a stake--he awaits me; and from that moment I see nothing more; only I feel a terrible pain in my neck, a gust of cold wind passes over my face, and it seems to me as if my head were -dangling at the end of a cord. It was that miscreant Yégof who had +dangling at the end of a cord. It was that miscreant Yégof who had hung my head at his saddle, and was galloping away!" continued the old farm-mistress, in such a tone of conviction that it made Hullin shudder. @@ -6120,7 +6086,7 @@ brightest of dreams." "You are laughing at me, Jean-Claude." "No; but to hear a woman of good sense and great courage speak like -you, reminds one, in spite of oneself, of Yégof, who boasts of having +you, reminds one, in spite of oneself, of Yégof, who boasts of having lived sixteen hundred years ago." "Who knows," said the old woman, in a persistent tone, "whether he @@ -6129,7 +6095,7 @@ recollects what others have forgotten?" Hullin was about to relate to her his conversation of the evening before at the camp with the fool, thinking thus to upset from top to bottom all her dismal visions; but seeing that she held the same -opinion as Yégof on the question of the sixteen hundred years, the +opinion as Yégof on the question of the sixteen hundred years, the brave fellow said nothing more, and resumed his silent walk, with head hung down and careworn brow. "She is mad," he was thinking to himself; "one more little shock, and it will be all over with her." @@ -6138,7 +6104,7 @@ Catherine, after a moment, in which she seemed to be lost in thought, was just about to say something, when Louise came skimming in like a swallow, exclaiming, in her sweetest voice:-- -"Mother Lefévre, Mother Lefévre, here is a letter from Gaspard!" +"Mother Lefévre, Mother Lefévre, here is a letter from Gaspard!" Then the old farm-mistress, whose hooked nose seemed bent down till it almost met her lips, so indignant was she to see Hullin turn her dream @@ -6190,7 +6156,7 @@ Russians are in the habit of breaking the ice of the tank to bathe in companies of twenty or thirty, and that they then go to dry themselves in the furnace of the brick-kiln. Good. About four o'clock, as day was departing, we went out by the postern of the arsenal, and passed -through the Allée des Vaches, gun on shoulder, at a rapid trot. A +through the Allée des Vaches, gun on shoulder, at a rapid trot. A few minutes after, we opened a running fire on the Cossacks who were bathing in the tank. All the rest then came out of the tile-kiln. They had only just time to catch up their cartridge-pouches, shoulder their @@ -6208,7 +6174,7 @@ would have laughed fit to crack his sides at the sight. At length, at night-fall we returned to the town, after having stormed the battery, and thrown two eight-pound shot into the brick-kiln. This is our first expedition. To-day, I am writing to you from the barracks of -Bois-des-Chênes, where we are quartered to provision the place. All +Bois-des-Chênes, where we are quartered to provision the place. All this may last for months. I have already told you that the Allies are returning by the valley of Dosenheim as far as Weschem, and that they are gaining by thousands the road to Paris. Ah! if it were only God's @@ -6220,7 +6186,7 @@ neighbourhood. There will be a little fighting to get them all in safe and sound. Farewell for the present, my good mother, my dear Louise, Papa Jean-Claude; my affectionate and loving remembrances to you all." -As she finished reading, Catherine Lefévre was quite overcome with +As she finished reading, Catherine Lefévre was quite overcome with emotion. "What a brave boy!" said she; "he knows nothing but his duty. In @@ -6256,7 +6222,7 @@ FOOTNOTES: CHAPTER XXI. -About ten o'clock in the evening, Catherine Lefévre and Louise, having +About ten o'clock in the evening, Catherine Lefévre and Louise, having wished Hullin good-night, went up into the room overhead. There were two large feather beds; and the tall bedsteads, nearly as high as the ceiling, with their long curtains, striped blue and red, had an @@ -6334,7 +6300,7 @@ dwelling. When they had reached the foot of the staircase, Hullin exclaimed: "Here they are, thanks be to God!" And all the brave fellows about there, looking up and seeing them, called out, "Courage! Mother -Lefévre!" +Lefévre!" Then the poor old dame, her frame quite shattered by so many emotions, began to cry. She leaned on the shoulder of Jean-Claude; but the latter @@ -6348,7 +6314,7 @@ giving way, and tiles flying about in all directions, and exactly opposite, in the vicinity of the barricades, three hundred paces off, were to be seen the white uniforms, in line, lit up by their own fire in the thick darkness of night, and then to their left, on the other -side of the ravine of the Minières, the mountaineers, who were taking +side of the ravine of the Minières, the mountaineers, who were taking them in the flank. Hullin disappeared at the turning by the farm; there all was plunged in @@ -6361,7 +6327,7 @@ her. "There you are!" exclaimed the doctor, "and it's a very lucky thing!" -And Frantz Materne added: "If it had not been for you, Dame Lefévre, +And Frantz Materne added: "If it had not been for you, Dame Lefévre, you may easily believe that not one of us would quit this spot to-night; but when you are in the case, there is nothing to say." @@ -6389,7 +6355,7 @@ here is my child save them!" They all replied, with one voice: "We will save them, or perish with them." -"And do not forget to tell Divès that he is to remain at the +"And do not forget to tell Divès that he is to remain at the Falkenstein till further orders." "All right, Master Jean-Claude." @@ -6406,7 +6372,7 @@ death!" But he had already turned the corner; the doctor struck his horse, the sleigh sped over the snow, and behind followed Frantz Materne and his men, carbine on shoulder, while the firing still continued all round -the farm. This is what Catherine Lefévre and Louise beheld in the space +the farm. This is what Catherine Lefévre and Louise beheld in the space of a few minutes. Something strange and terrible had doubtless happened during the night. The old farm-mistress, recollecting her dream, grew silent and absorbed. Louise dried her tears, and threw a long look on @@ -6446,7 +6412,7 @@ They saw nothing but the flashes, and a few instants after the reports awoke the echoes of the abyss. "The path by the hills of St. Quirin," said Frantz, "is the -shortest way to the farm of Bois-des-Chênes; we shall gain at least +shortest way to the farm of Bois-des-Chênes; we shall gain at least three-quarters of an hour." "Yes," cried the doctor; "but we risk being stopped by the @@ -6494,7 +6460,7 @@ Germans could approach that way? A defile almost impracticable for foot passengers, hemmed in as it is between perpendicular rocks, where the shepherds themselves can hardly descend with their flocks of goats. Well, they passed through there, two by two; surprised Roche-Creuse; -they killed Labarbe, and then fell upon Jerôme, who defended himself +they killed Labarbe, and then fell upon Jerôme, who defended himself like a lion until nine o'clock in the evening; but, at the last, he was obliged to fly into the fir forest, and leave the passage free to the _kaiserlicks_. That is the whole of the story. It is fearful. There @@ -6517,7 +6483,7 @@ her head. attacked to-night in front and on the side." "Exactly so, Catherine; fortunately, ten minutes before the attack, -one of Marc Divès' men--a smuggler, Zimmer, the ex-dragoon--came in +one of Marc Divès' men--a smuggler, Zimmer, the ex-dragoon--came in breathless haste to put us on our guard. But for that, we should have been lost. He came up with our vanguard, after having ran the gauntlet of a whole regiment of Cossacks on the side of the Grosmann. The poor @@ -6528,7 +6494,7 @@ over his saddle; were they not, Frantz?" "And what did he say?" asked the old farm-mistress. -"He had only time to cry, 'To arms! we are surprised. Jerôme has sent +"He had only time to cry, 'To arms! we are surprised. Jerôme has sent me. Labarbe is dead. The Germans have forced the Blutfeld.'" "He was a brave man," said Catherine. @@ -6552,7 +6518,7 @@ her reverie, "Hullin might just as well have told me." alight at this moment from the sleigh and go back, should I not be free to do so I have forgiven Jean-Claude, and I am sorry that I did so." -"Oh! Mother Lefévre, if he should happen to be killed while you were +"Oh! Mother Lefévre, if he should happen to be killed while you were saying that?" murmured Louise. "The child is right," thought Catherine; and then quickly added: "I say @@ -6601,7 +6567,7 @@ round at the higher portion of the level ground, which lies four or five feet below, and as a thick cloud veiled the moon, the doctor, afraid of upsetting his equipage, stopped under the oak. -"We have only about an hour's journey more, Dame Lefévre," said he, "so +"We have only about an hour's journey more, Dame Lefévre," said he, "so be of good heart; we are out of danger now." "Yes," said Frantz; "we have got the worst part over, and now we can @@ -6687,7 +6653,7 @@ But they did not hear him. Louise, in the midst of this tumult, of these savage shouts, thought of nothing but shielding Catherine; and the old farm-mistress--judge of -her terror!--had just recognised Yégof, on a tall, bony horse--Yégof, +her terror!--had just recognised Yégof, on a tall, bony horse--Yégof, his tin crown on his head, his matted beard, his lance in hand, and his long sheepskin floating from his shoulders. She saw him there as plainly as if it had been broad daylight; yes, it was he whose sinister @@ -6701,7 +6667,7 @@ wolves, aiming and receiving blows in the soft clear moonlight. She saw some struck down, and their horses, the bridle hanging over their neck, escaping into the meadow. She saw the uppermost windows in the keeper's house open on the left, and old Cuny, in his shirt-sleeves, level his -gun, without daring to fire into the _mêlée_. She saw all these with +gun, without daring to fire into the _mêlée_. She saw all these with singular clearness, and kept saying to herself: "The fool has returned: whatever happens, he will hang my head to his saddle. It must end as it did in my dream!" @@ -6726,7 +6692,7 @@ At this supreme moment, the poor child, mad with fear, uttered a cry of agony; at the same moment she caught sight of something shining in the dark, the pistols of Lorquin, and, quick as lightning, snatching them from the doctor's belt, she fired both shots at once, scorching the -beard of Yégof, whose pale face was lit up by the flash, and shattering +beard of Yégof, whose pale face was lit up by the flash, and shattering the skull of a Cossack who was leaning towards her, his white eyes distended with desire. @@ -6739,7 +6705,7 @@ horse suddenly stopped short, thrown back upon his haunches, his mouth covered with bloody foam. Rapid as this fall had been, Louise had seen some shadows pass like the -wind behind the trees. She had heard a terrible voice, that of Divès, +wind behind the trees. She had heard a terrible voice, that of Divès, shout: "Forward! Stab, stab!" It was but a vision, one of those confused apparitions such as pass @@ -6750,7 +6716,7 @@ from her, behind a ridge of trees, and Marc was shouting lustily: Then she saw a dozen Cossacks climbing up the opposite side of the mountain, through the bushes, like hares, and above, in the broad -light of the moon, Yégof crossing the valley at his utmost speed, +light of the moon, Yégof crossing the valley at his utmost speed, like a frightened bird. Several shots were sent after him, but the fool escaped them all, and, drawing himself up to his full height in his spurs, he turned round, brandishing his lance with a defiant @@ -6791,7 +6757,7 @@ you, but we all saw you at work. And, by-the-bye, my pistols--where are they?" At this moment there was a rustling among the bushes, and the tall form -of Marc Divès appeared, sword in hand, while he exclaimed: +of Marc Divès appeared, sword in hand, while he exclaimed: "Holloa! Dame Catherine; those are rough adventures. A thousand thunders! what a lucky chance that I should happen to be there! Those @@ -6820,10 +6786,10 @@ stuck fast here, with our feet in the snow. Let us hope that Piorette will not leave his comrades long in that plight, and now let us empty our glasses, which are still half full." -Other smugglers had just arrived, saying that that wretch of a Yégof +Other smugglers had just arrived, saying that that wretch of a Yégof might be back soon, with a lot more of his own sort at his back. -"That is true," replied Divès. "We will return to the Falkenstein, +"That is true," replied Divès. "We will return to the Falkenstein, since that is Jean-Claude's order; but we cannot take our waggon with us; it would prevent our taking the cross-roads, and, in an hour, all those bandits would be down on us tooth and nail. Let us go, in the @@ -6840,7 +6806,7 @@ the Donon. He had run two Cossacks through, and the sight of the inn besides tended to put him into good humour. In front of the door the ammunition waggon was stationed. Cuny came out to meet them, exclaiming: -"Welcome, Dame Lefévre; what a night for women! Sit down! What is going +"Welcome, Dame Lefévre; what a night for women! Sit down! What is going on up above there?" Whilst they were hastily draining a bottle, he was obliged to have @@ -6855,7 +6821,7 @@ than the old stories of the Swedes." And he shook his head. -"Come," cried Divès, "time presses; let us be going!" +"Come," cried Divès, "time presses; let us be going!" When all were ready to start, the smugglers led the waggon, which contained some thousands of cartridges and two little barrels of @@ -6873,10 +6839,10 @@ anything. I know what I'm about." Frantz rejoined the sleigh, which set out on its way. In a short time they passed the sawpit, and then took a short cut to the right to -reach the farm of Bois-des-Chênes, whose tall chimney was discernible +reach the farm of Bois-des-Chênes, whose tall chimney was discernible three-quarters of a league off. -When they were halfway up the mountain, Marc Divès and his men overtook +When they were halfway up the mountain, Marc Divès and his men overtook them, calling out to them: "Halt! stop a little while. Look down below there." @@ -6912,7 +6878,7 @@ devour, and ruin each other? What have they done, that they should hate each other so? And what can the ferocious spirit that excites them to it be, if it's not the devil himself?" -Divès and his men alone could behold such things unmoved, and while +Divès and his men alone could behold such things unmoved, and while they galloped away, laughed and applauded themselves. "For my part," said the tall smuggler, "I never saw such a capital @@ -6921,7 +6887,7 @@ thousand years." Then all of a sudden a gloom came over him, and he exclaimed: -"For all that, this must be Yégof's work. We must be blind not to see +"For all that, this must be Yégof's work. We must be blind not to see that it is he who led the Germans to the Blutfeld. I should be sorry if he had met his end by the blowing up of my cart. I have something better in store for him. All I desire is, that he may keep all right @@ -6931,10 +6897,10 @@ last. The longer I shall have waited, the better my appetite will be: tit-bits are good cold, like boar's head cooked in white wine." He said this in a laughing, good-humoured way, but those who knew him -augured from it no good to Yégof. +augured from it no good to Yégof. In half an hour after they had all arrived before the farm of -Bois-des-Chênes. +Bois-des-Chênes. @@ -6942,13 +6908,13 @@ Bois-des-Chênes. CHAPTER XXIII. -Jerôme de St. Quirin had safely effected his retreat upon the farm. +Jerôme de St. Quirin had safely effected his retreat upon the farm. Since midnight he had occupied the rising ground on which it stood. "Who goes there?" was the challenge of the sentinels as the escort approached. -"It is us--us from the village of Charmes," replied Marc Divès in his +"It is us--us from the village of Charmes," replied Marc Divès in his stentorian voice. They were recognised and allowed to pass. @@ -6966,9 +6932,9 @@ former times she used to return from market: "Well, Louise," said she, "here we are at home again, thanks be to God." -Old Duchêne had come and opened the door, exclaiming: +Old Duchêne had come and opened the door, exclaiming: -"Ah! is it you, Madame Lefévre?" +"Ah! is it you, Madame Lefévre?" "Yes, it is us! No news of Jean-Claude?" @@ -6977,16 +6943,16 @@ Old Duchêne had come and opened the door, exclaiming: Then they all went into the large kitchen. Some embers were still blazing on the hearth, and under shadow of the -immense chimney-piece was sitting Jerôme de Saint-Quirin, with his +immense chimney-piece was sitting Jerôme de Saint-Quirin, with his large cloth hood, his sandy pointed beard, his thick stick between his knees, and his carbine resting against the wall. -"Good-morrow, Jerôme," said the old farm-mistress. +"Good-morrow, Jerôme," said the old farm-mistress. "Good-morrow, Catherine," answered the grave and solemn leader of the Grosmann, "you come from the Donon?" -"Yes. Things are taking a bad turn, my poor Jerôme! we were obliged to +"Yes. Things are taking a bad turn, my poor Jerôme! we were obliged to leave the farm, because it was attacked by the _kaiserlicks_. There was nothing but white uniforms to be seen on every side. They were just beginning to pass the barricades." @@ -6995,10 +6961,10 @@ beginning to pass the barricades." "If Piorette does not come to his assistance, it is possible!" -The mountaineers had drawn near the fire. Marc Divès was stooping over +The mountaineers had drawn near the fire. Marc Divès was stooping over the ashes to light his pipe; as he raised himself up, he exclaimed: -"For my part, Jerôme, I only wish to ask you one thing: I know already +"For my part, Jerôme, I only wish to ask you one thing: I know already that the men under your command fought well." "We did our duty," replied the shoemaker; "there are sixty men lying @@ -7008,7 +6974,7 @@ the last judgment." "Yes; but who, then, was it that acted as guide to the Germans? They could not of themselves have found out the passage of the Blutfeld." -"It is Yégof, the fool Yégof," said Jerôme, whose gray eyes, circled by +"It is Yégof, the fool Yégof," said Jerôme, whose gray eyes, circled by deep wrinkles, and overhung by thick white eyebrows, seemed really to flash with fire as he spoke. @@ -7028,7 +6994,7 @@ It is easy to imagine the emotion of the bystanders. Every one began to think of the relations, the friends, whom he might perhaps never see again, and all, including those in the kitchen and the barn, rushed out to learn the news. At the same moment, Robin and Dubourg, who were -placed as sentinels on the Bois-des-Chênes, exclaimed: +placed as sentinels on the Bois-des-Chênes, exclaimed: "Who goes there?" @@ -7074,7 +7040,7 @@ terror to the scene. Louise was weeping freely in Hullin's arms. -"Ah! Jean-Claude," said Dame Lefévre, "you have got something to hear +"Ah! Jean-Claude," said Dame Lefévre, "you have got something to hear about that child there. At present I shall not tell you anything, except that we were attacked." @@ -7083,7 +7049,7 @@ now," said Hullin. "The pass of the Donon is lost, the Cossacks may be here by daybreak, and we have still many things to do." He turned the corner and entered the farm; every one followed him. -Duchêne had just thrown a fresh log on to the fire. Those faces +Duchêne had just thrown a fresh log on to the fire. Those faces blackened with powder, still flushed with fighting, their garments torn by bayonets, some stained with blood, advancing from the shadowy darkness outside into the full light cast by the blazing fire, @@ -7092,7 +7058,7 @@ bound up with his handkerchief, having received a cut from a sabre. His bayonet, the front of his dress, and his long blue cloth gaiters were spotted with blood. As for old Materne, he, thanks to his imperturbable presence of mind, returned safe and sound from the strife and carnage. -The remnants of the two troops of Jerôme and Hullin thus found +The remnants of the two troops of Jerôme and Hullin thus found themselves re-united. There were the same wild figures, inspired by the same energy and the @@ -7117,7 +7083,7 @@ meanwhile he was thinking to himself: "Mine are not left in the lurch; that's what I care about most." Catherine was laying the table, assisted by Louise. In a short time, -Duchêne came up from the cellar with a barrel of wine on his shoulder, +Duchêne came up from the cellar with a barrel of wine on his shoulder, which he placed on the dresser; he tapped it, and then every one of the mountaineers brought his glass, his mug, or his jug, and filled it from the purple stream that glistened in the blazing light of the fire. @@ -7140,9 +7106,9 @@ enough." While the mountaineers were thus repairing their strength, their leaders were assembled in the next room, making fresh dispositions for the defence. They were sitting round the table, lighted by a solitary -tin lamp; Doctor Lorquin, with his great dog Pluto by his side, Jerôme +tin lamp; Doctor Lorquin, with his great dog Pluto by his side, Jerôme in the angle of a window on the right, Hullin on the left, quite pale. -Marc Divès, with his elbow on the table, his cheek on his hand, had his +Marc Divès, with his elbow on the table, his cheek on his hand, had his broad shoulders turned to the door: he only showed his brown profile and one of the corners of his long moustache. Materne alone remained standing, as usual, against the wall, behind Lorquin's chair, his gun @@ -7166,7 +7132,7 @@ herself hesitates and seeks fresh support. Catherine went very gently and seated herself in a large arm-chair on the left. After a few seconds, Hullin added, in a calmer tone: "Between eleven o'clock and midnight, Zimmer arrived, shouting, 'We are taken in the rear! The -Germans are coming down from the Grosmann; Labarbe is dead; Jerôme +Germans are coming down from the Grosmann; Labarbe is dead; Jerôme cannot hold out any longer!' And then he said no more. What was to be done? Could I beat a retreat? Could I abandon a position which had cost us so much blood, the pass of the Donon, the road to Paris? If I @@ -7202,7 +7168,7 @@ one owes his life to his country; but this pass is lost; we should want ten thousand men to enable us to re-take it, and at this very moment the enemy is entering Lorraine. Now then, what is to be done?" -"We must go on to the end," said Jerôme. +"We must go on to the end," said Jerôme. "Yes, yes," exclaimed the others. @@ -7217,7 +7183,7 @@ Then Hullin, in a firmer tone, proceeded to disclose his plan. there that we have our ammunition; the enemy know it, and will attempt to storm it. To prevent that, we must all of us here present hasten thither to its defence; all the country round must see us, so that they -may be able to say--Catherine Lefévre, Jerôme, Materne and his sons, +may be able to say--Catherine Lefévre, Jerôme, Materne and his sons, Hullin, Doctor Lorquin, are there. They will not lay down their arms! This thought will reanimate the courage of all honest people. At the same time, Piorette will hold himself in readiness in the woods; his @@ -7247,22 +7213,22 @@ we shall finish all together." "Yes, yes!" cried out all the others. -"You have all decided, then? Very well! listen to me. Jerôme's brother +"You have all decided, then? Very well! listen to me. Jerôme's brother will take the command." -"My brother is dead," interrupted Jerôme; "he is lying on the side of +"My brother is dead," interrupted Jerôme; "he is lying on the side of the Grosmann." There was a moment's silence; then, in a firm voice, Hullin continued: "Colon, you will take the command of all those who are left, with the -exception of the men who formed the escort of Catherine Lefévre, and +exception of the men who formed the escort of Catherine Lefévre, and whom I shall retain with me. You will go and rejoin Piorette in the valley of the Blanru by the way of the Two Rivers." -"And the ammunition?" inquired Marc Divès. +"And the ammunition?" inquired Marc Divès. -"I have brought back my waggon," said Jerôme; "Colon can make use of +"I have brought back my waggon," said Jerôme; "Colon can make use of it." "Let the sleigh be got ready as well," exclaimed Catherine; "when the @@ -7284,17 +7250,17 @@ behind her as pale as death. Frantz, Kasper, and those who formed the escort, all stood ready armed and waiting in the kitchen. -"Duchêne," said the brave woman, "do you go down to the village; we +"Duchêne," said the brave woman, "do you go down to the village; we must not have the enemy ill-treating you on my account." The old servant then, shaking his white head, and with his eyes full of tears, replied: -"So that I but die here, Madame Lefévre. It is fifty years since I +"So that I but die here, Madame Lefévre. It is fifty years since I first came to the farm. Do not force me to go away from it; it would be my death." -"As you will, my poor Duchêne," replied Catherine, greatly moved at +"As you will, my poor Duchêne," replied Catherine, greatly moved at this proof of her old servant's fidelity. "Here are the keys of the house." @@ -7302,16 +7268,16 @@ And the poor old man went and sat down on a stool beside the hearth, with his eyes fixed, and his mouth half open, like one lost in a sad and bewildering dream. -They set out on their way to the Falkenstein. Marc Divès on horseback, +They set out on their way to the Falkenstein. Marc Divès on horseback, his long rapier in his hand, formed the rear-guard. Frantz and Hullin -were on the left overlooking the mountain side; Kasper and Jerôme on +were on the left overlooking the mountain side; Kasper and Jerôme on the right of the valley; Materne and the men of the escort surrounded the women. Strange to say, in front of the cottages of the village of Charmes, on the doorsteps of the houses, at the casements, at the windows, appeared faces young and old, watching with curious eyes this flight of Dame -Lefévre, and evil tongues did not spare her. +Lefévre, and evil tongues did not spare her. "Ah! she's come to ruin at last," said they. "This comes of meddling with what does not concern you!" @@ -7320,8 +7286,8 @@ Others made the reflection aloud that Catherine had been rich quite long enough, and that it was now her turn to come down in the world. As for the industry, the wisdom, the goodness of heart, and all the other virtues of the good old farm-mistress, the patriotism of -Jean-Claude, the courage of Jerôme, and Materne and his two sons, the -disinterestedness of Doctor Lorquin, the devotion of Marc Divès, no one +Jean-Claude, the courage of Jerôme, and Materne and his two sons, the +disinterestedness of Doctor Lorquin, the devotion of Marc Divès, no one said anything about them--they were conquered! [Illustration] @@ -7335,25 +7301,25 @@ CHAPTER XXIV. At the bottom of the valley of the Bouleaux, about two gun-shots from the village of Charmes, on the left, the little troop began to ascend slowly the footpath of the old _burg_. Hullin, remembering that he -had followed the same road when he went to buy powder of Marc Divès, +had followed the same road when he went to buy powder of Marc Divès, could not help a feeling of deep sadness from stealing over him. Then, in spite of his journey to Phalsbourg, in spite of the spectacle of the wounded of Hanau and of Leipzic, in spite of the old sergeant's recital, he despaired of nothing; he preserved all his energy, and had no fear of the success of the defence. How all was lost: the enemy -was descending on Lorraine, the mountaineers were flying. Marc Divès +was descending on Lorraine, the mountaineers were flying. Marc Divès was riding slowly by the side of the wall through the snow; his big horse, accustomed, no doubt, to this journey, kept neighing, tossing up his head, and dropping it down again on his breast, in sudden jerks. The smuggler turned round in his saddle from time to time, to throw a -glance back on the farm of Bois-des-Chênes they were quitting. Suddenly +glance back on the farm of Bois-des-Chênes they were quitting. Suddenly he exclaimed: "Hi! here are the Cossacks in sight!" At this exclamation all the troops halted to look about. They were already a good way up the mountain, above the village and even the farm -of Bois-des-Chênes. The gray wintry dawn was dispersing the mists of +of Bois-des-Chênes. The gray wintry dawn was dispersing the mists of morning, and amid the recesses of the mountain were visible the forms of several Cossacks, with head erect, pistol in hand, approaching at a slow pace the old homestead. They were advancing cautiously, and seemed @@ -7369,8 +7335,8 @@ surrounded, the door opened. Two minutes later, there was a crashing of glass, and out through the windows came furniture, mattrasses, and linen tumbling about in all directions. Catherine, with her hooked nose drawn down to her very lip, looked calmly on this scene of ravage. -For a long time she said nothing, but suddenly seeing Yégof, whom she -had not perceived until then, strike Duchêne with the butt of his +For a long time she said nothing, but suddenly seeing Yégof, whom she +had not perceived until then, strike Duchêne with the butt of his lance, and push him out of the farm, she could not restrain a cry of indignation: @@ -7384,7 +7350,7 @@ no good in feasting your eyes on that!" tempted to go down among them to avenge myself single-handed." The higher they ascended the mountain, the clearer and sharper grew -the air. Louise, the true daughter of the _Heimathslôs_, with a +the air. Louise, the true daughter of the _Heimathslôs_, with a little basket of provisions on her arm, was climbing the steep side at the head of the troop. The pale blue sky, the plains of Alsace and Lorraine, and, quite on the verge of the horizon, those of Champagne, @@ -7415,7 +7381,7 @@ farm-mistress said, with a sort of enthusiasm: has hollowed out these valleys, who has planted the trees, the shrubs, and the mosses of the forest, He will render us the justice we deserve." -As they stood thus regarding the steep and lofty rock, Marc Divès led +As they stood thus regarding the steep and lofty rock, Marc Divès led his horse into a cavern near at hand, then he returned, and beginning the ascent before them, he said to them: @@ -7428,7 +7394,7 @@ Every one became silent until they came to the terrace where the vault began. Arrived there, each one seemed to breathe more freely. They saw, about halfway, the smugglers, Brenn, Pfeifer, and Toubac, with their large gray cloaks, and black felt hats, sitting round a fire which -seemed to extend the whole length of the rock. Marc Divès said to them: +seemed to extend the whole length of the rock. Marc Divès said to them: "Here we are. The _kaiserlicks_ have got the upper hand. Zimmer has been killed to-night. Is Hexe-Baizel up above there?" @@ -7452,19 +7418,19 @@ And they all three looked at it with half-closed eyes. "It is our house," replied Kasper. -"Poor Magrédel!" replied the old huntsman, after a moment's silence. +"Poor Magrédel!" replied the old huntsman, after a moment's silence. "How uneasy she must have been for the last week! What vows has she not offered up for us to Saint Odile!" -Just at this moment, Marc Divès, who was in front, uttered a cry of -surprise. "Dame Lefévre," said he, suddenly stopping short, "the +Just at this moment, Marc Divès, who was in front, uttered a cry of +surprise. "Dame Lefévre," said he, suddenly stopping short, "the Cossacks have set fire to your farm!" Catherine received this news with the utmost calmness, and advanced to the very edge of the terrace; Louise and Jean-Claude followed her. The bottom of the abyss was covered with a thick white cloud; through this cloud was to be seen a bright spark in the direction of -Bois-des-Chênes, and nothing more; but at intervals, when there was +Bois-des-Chênes, and nothing more; but at intervals, when there was a gust of wind, the fire was distinctly visible. The two tall black gables, the haystack on fire, the little stables with flames bursting from them; then all disappeared again. @@ -7485,7 +7451,7 @@ Hexe-Baizel: "Is it you, Catherine?" she exclaimed. "Ah! I never thought that you would come and see me in my poor hole." -Hexe-Baizel and Catherine Lefévre had formerly been school-fellows +Hexe-Baizel and Catherine Lefévre had formerly been school-fellows together, so they now addressed each other in a familiar manner. "Nor I either," replied the old farm-mistress; "but no matter, Baizel, @@ -7507,7 +7473,7 @@ he!" The volunteers, after so many fatigues, felt in need of repose, so every one hastened to rest his gun against the wall, and to stretch -himself upon the ground. Marc Divès opened the door of the inner cavern +himself upon the ground. Marc Divès opened the door of the inner cavern for them, where they were at least under shelter; then he went out with Hullin to examine the position. @@ -7524,7 +7490,7 @@ itself. Neither French, Germans, nor Swedes have been able to destroy it. The stone and the cement are united so firmly, that not the least fragment can be detached. It has a gloomy and mysterious aspect, which carries you back to bygone times to which the memory of man cannot -reach. At the period of the passage of the wild geese, Marc Divès used +reach. At the period of the passage of the wild geese, Marc Divès used frequently to lie in ambush there when he had nothing better to do, and sometimes at the fall of day, just as the flocks were arriving through the mist, and describing a large circuit before retiring to rest, he @@ -7538,11 +7504,11 @@ How many times had Hexe-Baizel, when the north wind blew hard enough to tear the horns from off the oxen, and the noise, the cracking of the branches, and the hoarse groaning of the surrounding forests ascended on high like the clamour of an angry sea--how many times had -Hexe-Baizel been nearly carried away as far as the Kilbéri opposite? +Hexe-Baizel been nearly carried away as far as the Kilbéri opposite? But she would cling to the bushes with both hands, and the wind but succeeded in shaking out her red locks. -Divès, having noticed that his wood, from being often covered with snow +Divès, having noticed that his wood, from being often covered with snow and steeped with rain, gave out more smoke than flame, had sheltered the old tower with a roof made of planks. On this subject the smuggler had a singular story to relate: He asserted that he had discovered @@ -7556,7 +7522,7 @@ At the close of this day, the mountaineers placed in observation, like the dwellers in a vast hotel, on all the ridges of the rock, saw the white uniforms appear in the neighbouring gorges. They were issuing in vast masses from all sides at once, which showed clearly their -intention of blockading the Falkenstein. Marc Divès, seeing that, grew +intention of blockading the Falkenstein. Marc Divès, seeing that, grew more thoughtful. "If they surround us," thought he, "we shall no longer be able to @@ -7566,7 +7532,7 @@ They could perfectly distinguish the staff officers of the enemy's forces, riding leisurely round the fountain in the village of Charmes. There, too, was one of the great leaders, heavy of body, with a fat paunch, who was surveying the rock with a long telescope; behind -him stood Yégof, whom the officer turned round from time to time to +him stood Yégof, whom the officer turned round from time to time to question. The women and children formed a circle further off, looking wonderingly on, and five or six Cossacks were caracoling round. The smuggler could not restrain himself any longer; he took Hullin aside: @@ -7593,7 +7559,7 @@ general has discovered that he cannot subdue us by main force; he has resolved to reduce us by famine. All that, Marc, is positive, but we are men, we will do our duty; we will die here!" -There was a moment's silence; Marc Divès knit his brow, and did not +There was a moment's silence; Marc Divès knit his brow, and did not seem at all convinced. "We will die!" he exclaimed, scratching the back of his head. "For my @@ -7613,7 +7579,7 @@ perish by famine. I shall either enter the place at the first sortie or endeavour to gain an outpost. The Governor, Meunier, knows me. I have sold him tobacco for the last three years. Like you, he has served in the campaigns of Italy and Egypt. Well, I shall lay the case before -him. I shall see Gaspard Lefévre. I will do so much that they will +him. I shall see Gaspard Lefévre. I will do so much that they will perhaps give us a company. We want nothing but the uniform, do you see, Jean-Claude, and we are saved. All that are left of our brave fellows will join Piorette, and, in any case, we may be relieved. In short, @@ -7631,7 +7597,7 @@ And, in his turn, looking the smuggler straight in the face: "I swear nothing at all," replied Marc, whose brown cheeks were suffused with a sudden red. "I leave here all that I have: my property, -my wife, my comrades, Catherine Lefévre, and yourself--my oldest +my wife, my comrades, Catherine Lefévre, and yourself--my oldest friend. If I do not return, I shall be a traitor; but, if I do return, Jean-Claude, you shall give me a little explanation of the question you have just put to me: we have a little account to settle together!" @@ -7641,7 +7607,7 @@ few days! I have been wrong; misfortune makes me mistrustful. Give me your hand! Go, save us, save Catherine, save my child! I say this to you now; we have no resource but in you." -Hullin's voice trembled: Divès allowed himself to be moved by it; only +Hullin's voice trembled: Divès allowed himself to be moved by it; only he added: "For all that, Jean-Claude, you should not have spoken so to me at such @@ -7653,7 +7619,7 @@ no matter, I have a good horse, and, besides, I've always been lucky." By six o'clock the loftiest of the mountain tops were wrapped in darkness. Hundreds of fires sparkling at the bottom of the gorges announced that the Germans were preparing their evening meal. Marc -Divès descended the footpath on tiptoe. Hullin listened a few +Divès descended the footpath on tiptoe. Hullin listened a few seconds longer to the sound of his comrade's footsteps; then he directed his own, in a meditative mood, towards the old tower where the head-quarters had been established. He raised the thick woollen @@ -7662,7 +7628,7 @@ the others crouching round a little fire which threw its feeble light upon the grey walls. The old farm-mistress, seated on a block of oak, with her hands clasped round her knees, was watching the flame with fixed eye, compressed lips, and livid complexion; Louise, leaning with -her back against the wall, seemed absorbed in a dream; Jerôme, standing +her back against the wall, seemed absorbed in a dream; Jerôme, standing behind Catherine, with his hands crossed upon his stick, touched with his thick otter-skin cap the rotten roof. All were sad and dispirited. Hexe-Baizel, who was lifting up the lid of a saucepan, and Doctor @@ -7693,7 +7659,7 @@ raising her head, began to say, as she regarded him: "It is true, Catherine," replied Hullin. "I did not expect that. I reckoned on an attack by main force; but the _kaiserlicks_ are not -yet quite as far advanced as they think. Divès has just set out for +yet quite as far advanced as they think. Divès has just set out for Phalsbourg; he is acquainted with the governor of the place. And if they will send only a few hundred men to our succour----" @@ -7715,7 +7681,7 @@ the steaming bowl. CHAPTER XXVI. -Catherine Lefévre went out of the old cavern about seven o'clock in +Catherine Lefévre went out of the old cavern about seven o'clock in the morning; Louise and Hexe-Baizel were still asleep; but broad daylight, the splendid daylight of the upper regions, was already streaming through every abyss. At the bottom, through the bright azure, @@ -7769,7 +7735,7 @@ gendarme--they are holding that too. The very devil himself must have shown them the defiles." "Yes!" exclaimed the tall Toubac, "and if it is not the devil who has -put his foot in it, it must, at least, be Yégof." +put his foot in it, it must, at least, be Yégof." "But," replied Hullin, "it seems to me as if three or four firm determined men might carry one of those outposts." @@ -7794,7 +7760,7 @@ tell it me. For twenty years I have beaten the mountain with Marc, and I know every road, every path within ten leagues from here, and I do not see any other passage than in heaven!" -Hullin turned round at this moment and saw Dame Lefévre, who was +Hullin turned round at this moment and saw Dame Lefévre, who was standing a few paces off, and listening attentively. "What! were you there, Catherine?" said he. "Our affairs are beginning @@ -7803,14 +7769,14 @@ to take a bad turn." "Yes, I understand: there are no means of renewing our provisions." "Our provisions," said Brenn, with a strange smile. "Do you know, Dame -Lefévre, for how long we have enough?" +Lefévre, for how long we have enough?" "Why, for a fortnight," replied the brave woman. "We have enough for a week," said the smuggler, emptying the ashes of his pipe upon his nail. -"It is the truth," said Hullin; "Marc Divès and I believed in an +"It is the truth," said Hullin; "Marc Divès and I believed in an attack on the Falkenstein; we never thought the enemy would dream of beleaguering it like a fortified place. We have been mistaken!" @@ -7871,12 +7837,12 @@ himself to meet them, untied the handkerchief, saying: to you." Tho mountaineers were about fifteen paces from this group. Catherine -Lefévre, who was the foremost, was knitting her brows. Her bony figure, +Lefévre, who was the foremost, was knitting her brows. Her bony figure, her long and hooked nose, the three or four locks of her gray hair straggling over her flat temples, and the bones of her hollow cheeks, the compression of her lips, and the fixity of her look, seemed at first to attract the attention of the German officer; then the gentle -and pale face of Louise behind her; then Jerôme, with his long sandy +and pale face of Louise behind her; then Jerôme, with his long sandy beard, draped in his tunic of coarse cloth; then old Materne, leaning upon his short carbine; then the others; and, finally, the high red vault, the colossal masses of which, built up of flint and granite, @@ -7977,11 +7943,11 @@ Hullin turned to his followers, and said to them simply: "You have heard? For my part, I refuse but I will submit if every one else accepts the proposition of the enemy?" -"We all refuse!" said Jerôme. +"We all refuse!" said Jerôme. "Yes--yes, all!" repeated the others. -Catherine Lefévre, hitherto inflexible, happening to look at Louise, +Catherine Lefévre, hitherto inflexible, happening to look at Louise, seemed touched; she took her by the arm, and turning to the envoy, she said: @@ -8000,7 +7966,7 @@ death! Kasper, Frantz, lead back the envoy." The officer seemed to hesitate; but as he was opening his mouth to speak, Catherine, quite livid with rage, exclaimed: -"Go--go! You are not yet where you think. It is that brigand of a Yégof +"Go--go! You are not yet where you think. It is that brigand of a Yégof who has told you that we had no provisions, but we have enough for two months; and in two months our army will have exterminated you all. The traitors will not always have it their own way. Woe be to you!" @@ -8018,7 +7984,7 @@ in order to prevent injustice. But all these precautions could not preserve these unfortunate creatures from the horrors of famine. For three days provisions had completely failed at the Falkenstein, -and Divès had not given signs of life. How many times, during these +and Divès had not given signs of life. How many times, during these long days of agony, had the mountaineers turned their eyes towards Phalsbourg! how many times had they listened, thinking they heard the steps of the smuggler, whilst the vague murmur of the air alone filled @@ -8031,7 +7997,7 @@ remained lost in an endless reverie. At times they looked at each other with flashing eye, as if ready to devour each other; then they grew calm and gloomy again. -When Yégof's raven, flying from peak to peak, was seen approaching +When Yégof's raven, flying from peak to peak, was seen approaching this scene of misfortune, old Materne shouldered his carbine; but immediately the bird of ill-omen would take flight at its utmost speed, uttering dismal croakings; and the arm of the old hunter fell powerless. @@ -8062,7 +8028,7 @@ Then the others would be furious against the poor child, crying out angrily that she wanted to make game of them, and that she had best beware. -Jerôme alone still remained perfectly calm; but the great quantity +Jerôme alone still remained perfectly calm; but the great quantity of snow which he had drunk to appease the inward anguish that was consuming him, bathed all his body and his face with a cold sweat. @@ -8113,8 +8079,8 @@ observing what was passing in the surrounding valleys, without saying anything. At times he advanced to the very edge of the rock, and with his large -compressed jaws, and flashing eye, watched Yégof sitting before a large -fire, on the plateau of the Bois-des-Chênes, in the midst of a troop +compressed jaws, and flashing eye, watched Yégof sitting before a large +fire, on the plateau of the Bois-des-Chênes, in the midst of a troop of Cossacks. Since the arrival of the Germans in the valley of the Charmes, the fool had not quitted this post; he seemed, from there, to gloat over the agony of his victims. @@ -8132,11 +8098,11 @@ the snowy summit of the Grosmann; the sun, red as a bullet just out of the furnace, was casting his last rays athwart the murky sky. The silence on the rock was profound. Louise gave no more sign of life. Kasper and Frantz continued motionless among the shrubs like stones. -Catherine Lefévre, crouching on the ground, her sharp knees between her +Catherine Lefévre, crouching on the ground, her sharp knees between her skinny arms, her rigid and hard features, her hair hanging over her livid cheeks, with haggard eye, and chin as sharp as a vice, resembled some old sibyl sitting in the midst of the bushes. She spoke no more. -That evening, Hullin, Jerôme, old Materne, and Doctor Lorquin had +That evening, Hullin, Jerôme, old Materne, and Doctor Lorquin had assembled round the old farm-mistress to die together. They were all silent, and the last faint rays of twilight illumined the dismal group. To the right, behind a jutting point of the rock, some fires of the @@ -8144,7 +8110,7 @@ Germans glimmered in the abyss. And as they sat there, all at once the old woman, coming out of her long reverie, murmured at first some unintelligible words. -"Divès is here!" said she at length, in a low voice. "I see him; he is +"Divès is here!" said she at length, in a low voice. "I see him; he is leaving the postern, to the right of the arsenal. Gaspard follows him, and----" @@ -8183,7 +8149,7 @@ that their existence hung upon her lips. Nearly a quarter of an hour had passed, when the old woman slowly continued: "They have crossed the enemy's lines. They are hastening to -Lutzelbourg. I see them. Gaspard and Divès are in front, with +Lutzelbourg. I see them. Gaspard and Divès are in front, with Desmarets, Ulrich, Weber, and our friends from the city. They come! They come!" @@ -8206,7 +8172,7 @@ In the meantime, night was come. When the moon rose behind the tall fir-trees, casting her pale rays on the sorrowful groups of the besieged, Hullin only was still watching, though burnt up with fever. He heard far, very far off in the gorges the voices of the German -sentinels calling out "_Wer dà! Wer dà!_" the camp patrols going their +sentinels calling out "_Wer dà ! Wer dà !_" the camp patrols going their rounds through the woods, the shrill neighing of the horses at picket, their stamping, and the shouts of their keepers. Towards midnight the brave man ended, however, by going to sleep like the rest. When @@ -8229,7 +8195,7 @@ to tremble from head to foot; cold drops of sweat stood on his face, and walking on tiptoe through the darkness, like a blind man, with outstretched hands, he stammered: -"Catherine! Louise! Jerôme!" +"Catherine! Louise! Jerôme!" But no one replied to him, and after having groped about in this way, thinking he was walking, while in reality he was not taking a single @@ -8245,12 +8211,12 @@ Hexe-Baizel, gone mad from suffering. Then Catherine exclaimed: Jean-Claude, recovered from his emotion, exclaimed, in a firmer tone: -"Jerôme, Catherine, Materne, and you all, are you dead? Do you not see +"Jerôme, Catherine, Materne, and you all, are you dead? Do you not see that fire down there, on the side of the Blanru? It is Piorette, who is coming to our assistance." And, at the very same moment, a loud explosion rolled through the -gorges of the Jægerthâl with the sound of a tempest. The trumpet of the +gorges of the Jægerthâl with the sound of a tempest. The trumpet of the last judgment would not have produced more effect on the besieged; they suddenly awoke. @@ -8263,13 +8229,13 @@ no more tears. A second explosion brought them to their feet. "Surely that is platoon firing," exclaimed Hullin; "our people fire also in platoons; we have soldiers of the line; hurrah for France!" -"Yes," replied Jerôme, "Dame Catherine was right; the Phalsbourgians +"Yes," replied Jerôme, "Dame Catherine was right; the Phalsbourgians are coming to our relief; they are descending the hills of the Sarre, and there is Piorette, now heading the attack on the Blanru." In effect, the firing began to resound from both sides at once, towards -the plateau of the Bois-des-Chênes and the towering heights of the -Kilbéri. +the plateau of the Bois-des-Chênes and the towering heights of the +Kilbéri. Then the two leaders embraced each other; and as they walked on tiptoe through the thick darkness, trying to gain the edge of the rock, all of @@ -8292,7 +8258,7 @@ topmost height of the Falkenstein like a sigh. "It is Marc," said Hullin; "it is the voice of Marc." -"Yes, it is Marc who is bidding us keep up our courage," replied Jerôme. +"Yes, it is Marc who is bidding us keep up our courage," replied Jerôme. All the others, crouching round them, with outstretched neck, and hands grasping the edge of the rock, strained their eyes to see. The @@ -8308,19 +8274,19 @@ was breaking over the dark tops of the mountains; some rays descended into the shadowy valleys; half-an-hour after they silvered the misty vapours of the abyss. Hullin, casting a look through these breaks in the clouds, was able at length to recognise the position. The Germans -had lost the heights of the Valtin and the plateau of Bois-des-Chênes. +had lost the heights of the Valtin and the plateau of Bois-des-Chênes. They were now massed in the valley of Charmes, at the foot of the Falkenstein, a third part of the way up the side, to be out of the reach of their adversaries' fire. Opposite the rock, Piorette, master -of Bois-des-Chênes, was ordering barricades to be thrown up on the +of Bois-des-Chênes, was ordering barricades to be thrown up on the side of Charmes. He was going hither and thither, the end of his pipe between his lips, his felt hat cocked on his ear, his carbine slung over his shoulder. The blue axes of the woodcutters glittered in the morning sun. To the left of the village, on the side of the Valtin, -in the middle of the brushwood, Marc Divès, on a little black horse, +in the middle of the brushwood, Marc Divès, on a little black horse, with a long flowing tail, his long sword in his hand, was pointing to the ruins and the _schlitte_ road. An officer of infantry, and some -national guards in blue coats, were listening to him. Gaspard Lefévre, +national guards in blue coats, were listening to him. Gaspard Lefévre, alone, in advance of this group, leaning on his gun, seemed thoughtful. It might be seen from his attitude that he was forming desperate resolutions for the moment of attack. In fine, quite on the summit of @@ -8334,20 +8300,20 @@ regain the positions they had lost. Their general was sending horsemen in all directions carrying orders. Rows of bayonets were beginning to defile. -"It's all over!" said Hullin to Jerôme. "What can five or six hundred +"It's all over!" said Hullin to Jerôme. "What can five or six hundred men do against four thousand in line of battle? The Phalsbourgians will return home, and say, 'We have done our duty!' And Piorette will be crushed." All the others thought the same; but that which raised their despair to its height was to see all at once a long file of Cossacks debouch -in the valley of Charmes at full gallop, and the fool Yégof at their +in the valley of Charmes at full gallop, and the fool Yégof at their head, galloping like the wind; his beard, the tail of his horse, his sheepskin, and his red hair all streaming in the wind. He looked at the rock, and brandished his lance above his head. At the bottom of the valley, he spurred straight up to where the major-general of the enemy's army stood. Arrived near him, he made some gestures indicating -the other side of the plateau of Bois-des-Chênes. +the other side of the plateau of Bois-des-Chênes. "Ah! the wretch!" exclaimed Hullin. "See! he is telling him that Piorette has no barricades on that side of the mountain, and that it @@ -8376,7 +8342,7 @@ an immense curve. A horrible noise was heard below. Splinters of fir-trees flew about in all directions, then an enormous stone was seen to rebound at a hundred paces with fresh impetus, roll down the steep descent, and, -with a final bound, fall upon Yégof, and crush him at the very feet of +with a final bound, fall upon Yégof, and crush him at the very feet of the general of the enemy's forces. All this was accomplished in a few seconds. @@ -8418,11 +8384,11 @@ Jean-Claude observed him; and in spite of the intoxication of triumph, in spite of the certainty of having escaped famine, the old soldier could not restrain a feeling of admiration. -"Look," said he to Jerôme, "he does as we did on returning from the +"Look," said he to Jerôme, "he does as we did on returning from the Donon and the Grosmann: he remains to the last, and only yields step by step. Truly there are men of courage in every country." -Marc Divès and Piorette, witnesses of this stroke of fortune, came +Marc Divès and Piorette, witnesses of this stroke of fortune, came down through the fir-trees to endeavour to cut off the retreat of the enemy's general, but they could not succeed in their attempt. The battalion, reduced to half, formed a square behind the village @@ -8441,12 +8407,12 @@ the name of the _Battle of the Rocks_. CHAPTER XXVIII. -The battle was hardly over, about eight o'clock, when Marc Divès, +The battle was hardly over, about eight o'clock, when Marc Divès, Gaspard, and about thirty mountaineers, with panniers of provisions, ascended the Falkenstein. What a spectacle awaited them up there! All the besieged, stretched on the ground, seemed dead. It was in vain to shake them, to shout in their ears, "Jean-Claude! Catherine! -Jerôme!"--they answered not. Gaspard Lefévre, seeing his mother and +Jerôme!"--they answered not. Gaspard Lefévre, seeing his mother and Louise motionless and with clenched teeth, told Marc that if they did not recover he would blow out his brains with his gun. Marc replied that every one was free to do as he pleased, but that, for his part, @@ -8455,7 +8421,7 @@ Colon having deposited his pannier on a stone, Kasper Materne suddenly sniffed its contents, opened his eyes, and, seeing the provisions, began to clash his teeth like a fox on the chase. -Then they understood what was the meaning of that; and Marc Divès, +Then they understood what was the meaning of that; and Marc Divès, going from one to the other, simply held his flask under their noses, which sufficed to bring them round. They wanted to swallow all at once; but Doctor Lorquin, in spite of his delirium, had still the good sense @@ -8471,7 +8437,7 @@ a thing impossible. They looked at each other, embraced; and at each fresh comer from Abreschwiller, from Dagsburg, from St. Quirin, or elsewhere, it was all gone over again. -Marc Divès was obliged to relate more than twenty times the story +Marc Divès was obliged to relate more than twenty times the story of his journey to Phalsbourg. The brave smuggler had not been much favoured by fortune. After having escaped by miracle from the bullets of the _kaiserlicks_, he had fallen, in the valley of Spartzprod, into @@ -8496,7 +8462,7 @@ like ravens. But no matter; we have outwitted them all the same." When five or six days were passed, every one was afoot. Captain Vidal, of Phalsbourg, had left twenty-five men at the Falkenstein to guard -the ammunition. Gaspard Lefévre was of the number. The young fellow +the ammunition. Gaspard Lefévre was of the number. The young fellow came down every morning to the village. The Allies had all passed into Lorraine; no more was seen of them in Alsace, except round the strong places. @@ -8506,12 +8472,12 @@ Montmirail; but times of great misfortune were at hand. The Allies, in spite of the heroism of our army and the genius of the Emperor, entered Paris. -This was a terrible blow for Jean-Claude, Catherine, Materne, Jerôme, +This was a terrible blow for Jean-Claude, Catherine, Materne, Jerôme, and all the mountaineers; but the recital of these events does not enter into our history; others have related them. -Peace made, in the spring they rebuilt the farm of Bois-des-Chênes. The -woodcutters, sabôt-makers, masons, bargemen, and all the workmen of the +Peace made, in the spring they rebuilt the farm of Bois-des-Chênes. The +woodcutters, sabôt-makers, masons, bargemen, and all the workmen of the country lent a hand. About the same period, the army having been disbanded, Gaspard cut off @@ -8519,9 +8485,9 @@ his moustaches, and his marriage with Louise took place. On that day all the combatants arrived from the Falkenstein and the Donon, and the farm received them with doors and windows wide open. -Every one brought his presents to the bride and bridegroom--Jerôme, +Every one brought his presents to the bride and bridegroom--Jerôme, little shoes for Louise; Materne and his sons, a fine heathcock, the -most amorous of birds, as everybody knows; Divès, packets of smuggled +most amorous of birds, as everybody knows; Divès, packets of smuggled tobacco for Gaspard; and Doctor Lorquin, a parcel of fine linen. There was open table kept even in the barns and outhouses. What was @@ -8532,7 +8498,7 @@ up on that day by singing the old air of his youth as gaily as when he set off, gun on shoulder, for Valmy, Jemmapes, and Fleurus. The echoes of the Falkenstein opposite repeated from afar this old patriotic song--the grandest, the most noble that man has ever heard under -heaven. Catherine Lefévre beat time upon the table with the handle of +heaven. Catherine Lefévre beat time upon the table with the handle of her knife; and if it is true, as many say, that the dead come to listen when we speak of them, our brave fellows must have been satisfied, and the King of Diamonds have foamed in his red beard. @@ -8543,8 +8509,8 @@ said to them: "You will have brave children; I will dance them upon my knees; I will teach them my old song; and then I will go and rejoin my forefathers!" -So saying, he embraced Louise, and arm-in-arm with Marc Divès and -Jerôme, he went down to his little cottage followed by all the wedding +So saying, he embraced Louise, and arm-in-arm with Marc Divès and +Jerôme, he went down to his little cottage followed by all the wedding guests, singing in chorus the sublime song. Never was there seen a more beautiful night; inumerable stars sparkled @@ -8556,7 +8522,7 @@ On the threshold of the modest dwelling there was shaking of hands and wishing good-night; and then all, some to the right, others to the left, returned to their villages. -"Good night, Materne, Jerôme, Divès, Piorette, good-night!" exclaimed +"Good night, Materne, Jerôme, Divès, Piorette, good-night!" exclaimed Jean-Claude. 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