TAILIEUCHUNG - Duchenier or, the Revolt of La Vendée

IT was a stormy morning in May. The west wind was sweeping heavy masses of clouds from the Atlantic ocean; and the sun, that now and then gleamed forth with a watery brightness, was soon blotted out by some fresh wreath of vapour, and the shower came on again. But sun or rain seemed to make little difference to two officers, who, mounted on excellent though now somewhat wearied horses, were hurrying through one of the obscure lanes, that leads from Bressuire to Cerisay, in La Vendée. Sometimes it plunged into the heart of a little copse, where the birds, sheltered from the shower, were singing. | 1 Duchenier or the Revolt of La Vendée by John Mason Neale 1848. Chapter I. Chapter I. 2 IT was a stormy morning in May. The west wind was sweeping heavy masses of clouds from the Atlantic ocean and the sun that now and then gleamed forth with a watery brightness was soon blotted out by some fresh wreath of vapour and the shower came on again. But sun or rain seemed to make little difference to two officers who mounted on excellent though now somewhat wearied horses were hurrying through one of the obscure lanes that leads from Bressuire to Cerisay in La Vendée. Sometimes it plunged into the heart of a little copse where the birds sheltered from the shower were singing as merrily as if all were peace around them sometimes it led out on to the ridge of a down on either side of which might be seen the neat white farm--neat enough to be like the farms of England--its well-kept enclosure and the twenty or thirty oxen that were feeding in the adjacent pasture anon it swept down into the valley and crossed the little stream that sparkled and bubbled in the sunlight on the bright summer day but now poured along one turbid swollen discoloured mass of foam. Occasionally the cottage of the labourer stood on the lane-side that cottage which--for the sun had not long risen--was now pouring out its tenants to their daily labour. And so the travellers journeyed on though in truth they took no great interest in the scene around them except when they passed the peasant going forth to his work. Then a few kind words were interchanged on both sides --though rather in general by the younger of the officers than by his older and graver companion. In good sooth Duchenier said the latter I could never have found my way to this Cerisay of yours without your direction. In my own part of the country hedge lane cottage métairie I know them all far and near and I would thread our labyrinth of downs the darkest night in the year from Montaigu to Clisson. But here it is quite another thing and

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