"I Tell You What, Mon Maitre, When I Heard Of The Misfortune Of
Madame And The General, You Would Scarcely Believe It, But I
Actually Shed Tears, And Was Sorry That I Had Parted With Them In
Unkindness On Account Of That Pernicious Quail.
"Eh bien, mon maitre, nous poursuivrons notre histoire.
The eldest
son, as I told you before, was a cavalry officer and a man of
resolution, and when he heard of the death of his father and
mother, he vowed revenge. Poor fellow! but what does he do but
desert, with two or three discontented spirits of his troop, and
going to the frontier of Galicia, he raised a small faction, and
proclaimed Don Carlos. For some little time he did considerable
damage to the liberals, burning and destroying their possessions,
and putting to death several nationals that fell into his hands.
However, this did not last long, his faction was soon dispersed,
and he himself taken and hanged, and his head stuck on a pole.
"Nous sommes deja presque au bout. When we arrived at the inn, the
young man took me above, as you saw, and there for some time he
could do nothing but weep and sob. His story is soon told:- he
returned from his travels, and the first intelligence which awaited
him on his arrival in Spain was, that his father was drowned, his
mother dead, and his brother hanged, and, moreover, all the
possessions of his family confiscated. This was not all:
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