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The House of the Combrays
By G. LE NOTRE
Translated from the French by
Mrs. JOSEPH B. GILDER
New York
Dodd, Mead, & Company
1902
Contents
| PREFACE | vii | |
| I | THE TREACHERY OF JEAN-PIERRE QUERELLE | 1 |
| II | THE CAPTURE OF GEORGES CADOUDAL | 21 |
| III | THE COMBRAYS | 44 |
| IV | THE ADVENTURES OF D'ACHÉ | 68 |
| V | THE AFFAIR OF QUESNAY | 101 |
| VI | THE YELLOW HORSE | 140 |
| VII | MADAME ACQUET | 178 |
| VIII | PAYING THE PENALTY | 216 |
| IX | THE FATE OF D'ACHÉ | 246 |
| X | THE CHOUANS SET FREE | 275 |
PREFACE
AN OLD TOWER
One evening in the winter of 1868 or 1869, my father-in-law, Moisson,with whom I was chatting after dinner, took up a book that was lying onthe table, open at the page where I had stopped reading, and said:
"Ah! you are reading Mme. de la Chanterie?"
"Yes," I replied. "A fine book; do you know it?"
"Of co
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