Sensational Novels Volume 19 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ... day to restore to its real owner. Pierre Maneheu was young, intrepid, intelligent and good-looking, and he showed a generous devotion in nursin" the poor wounded girl, when to conceal a rebel made him liable to be sent to the scaffold. Happily no one denounced him; he fell violently in love _ _-, ., -----, r..., .... l.: - liu.juw C.4. tWU V miC, though not love, for her deliverer, and Sv readily consented to become his wife. After the 9th Thermidor, Maneheu was able to liv-, i, peaoe on tle pro. duce of his gun and his garden, and Louise was not unhappy though she regretted having no children. Matters went thus till the new avirrec. tion of the Chouans burst forth on the borders of Normandy, Brittany, -_, j Maine, when Pierre Maneheu was one of the first to take up arms, and his wife followed him in his adventurous expeditions. Towards the close of 1808, the royalists' cause began to languish, and George Cadoudal came to France with the momentary illusion that he might win over General Bonaparte to his cause. The victor of Marengo, however, soon dismissed the Bourbon envoy, and Cadoudal left the Tuileries determined to recommence hostilities and direct them especially against the man whom he expressed himself as sorry not to have strangled when they were closeted together. His first care was to find a faithful man who would keep open some permanent means of communication on the coast of Normandy, which at that time was watched with much less care than that of Brittany. The choice fell ou Pierre Maneheu; his wife was also greatly respected, and when she came to offer her services and state that she knew a spot near Dieppe admirably adapted to their purpose, it clenched the decision. Her devotion to the cause for which her father had laid down ...