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Title: The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel
Vol. II.

Author: Ludwig Tieck
Madame Burette

Release Date: March 22, 2010 [EBook #31739]

Language: English

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THE

REBELLION IN THE CEVENNES,

AN HISTORICAL NOVEL

IN TWO VOLUMES.

BY LUDWIG TIECK.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY
MADAME BURETTE.

VOL. II.

LONDON:
D. NUTT, FLEET STREET.
DUBLIN: J. CUMMING.--EDINBURGH: BELL AND BRADFUTE.
1845.

THE

REBELLION IN THE CEVENNES.

CHAPTER I.

The next morning Edmond felt himself considerably better. Cavalier
continually flitted before his eyes, and it appeared to him as if arms
lifted him from his couch, in order to follow his friends. When Eustace
had fallen asleep towards noon, he arose quietly, took his rifle and
with light footsteps hastily descended the mountain path. He felt light
and well, it seemed as if he had never yet walked so rapidly and so
indefatigably. He avoided the high road, and again a sort of
instinctive knowledge conducted him through the shortest and safest
ways.

When the sun went down and the shadows became darker, images arose in
his imagination more clear and defined with the encreasing obscurity.
When night came on, he also distinguished the other forms in the group,
his father, Franz, the paternal home and the little slumbering Eveline
appeared to him, dark figures were lurking a