you think I suffer, and
in truth I do; but He for whom I suffer is beside me and gives me
strength to bear everything joyfully." Just then M. de Baville's order
was repeated, and the archer, no longer daring to interfere, allowed the
executioner to approach. Then Boeton, seeing his last moment had come,
said, "My dear friends, may my death be an example to you, to incite you
to preserve the gospel pure; bear faithful testimony that I died in the
religion of Christ and His holy apostles." Hardly had these words passed
his lips, than the death-blow was given and his chest crushed; a few
inarticulate sounds, apparently prayers, were heard; the head fell back,
the martyrdom was ended.

This execution ended the war in Languedoc. A few imprudent preachers
still delivered belated sermons, to which the rebels listened trembling
with fear, and for which the preachers paid on the wheel or gibbet.
There were disturbances in Vivarais, aroused by Daniel Billard, during
which a few Catholics were found murdered on the highway; there were a
few fights, as for instance at Sainte-Pierre-Ville, where the Camisards,
faithful to the old traditions which had come to them from Cavalier,
Catinat, and Ravenal, fought one to twenty, but they were all without
importance; they were only the last quiverings of the dying civil strife,
the last shudderings of the earth when the eruption of the volcano is
over.

Even Cavalier understood that the end had come, for he left Holland for
England. There Queen Anne distinguished him by a cordial welcome; she
invited him to enter her service, an offer which he accepted, and he was
placed in command of a regiment of refugees; so that he actually received
in England the grade of colonel, which he had been offered in France. At
the battle of Almanza the regiment commanded by Cavalier found itself
opposed by a French regiment. The old enemies recognised each other, and
with a howl of rage, without waiting for the word of command or executing
any military evolutions, they hurled themselves at each other with such
fury that, if we may believe the Duke of Berwick, who was present, they
almost annihilated each other in the conflict. Cavalier, however,
survived the slaughter, in which he had performed his part with energy;
and for his courage was made general and governor of the island of
Jersey. He died at Chelsea in May 1740, aged sixty years. "I must
confess," says Malesherbes, "that this soldier, who w