The Blacksmith's Hammer; or, The Peasant Code: A Tale of the Grand Monarch

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Эжен Сю. The Blacksmith's Hammer; or, The Peasant Code: A Tale of the Grand Monarch

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

PART I. HOLLAND

CHAPTER I. THE ST. ELOI

CHAPTER II. BERTHA OF PLOUERNEL

CHAPTER III. THE HUGUENOT COLONEL

CHAPTER IV. THE LOST LETTER

CHAPTER V. JOHN DE WITT

CHAPTER VI. CORNELIUS DE WITT

CHAPTER VII. MOB-VERDICT

CHAPTER VIII. THE FLIGHT

PART II >BRITTANY

CHAPTER I. NOMINOE

CHAPTER II. A BRETON WEDDING

CHAPTER III. THE RED-COATS

CHAPTER IV. DESERTED!

CHAPTER V. THE MYSTERY AT PLOUERNEL

CHAPTER VI. BERTHA AND NOMINOE

CHAPTER VII. EZ-LIBR

CHAPTER VIII. THE MANOR OF MEZLEAN

CHAPTER IX. THE PEASANTS' DEFEAT

CHAPTER X. UNITED

EPILOGUE

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I, Salaun Lebrenn, the son of Stephan, who was the son of Antonicq, who finished the legend of The Pocket Bible, begun by his grandfather Christian the printer – I, Salaun Lebrenn, am the writer of the following narrative.

To you, my last-born, Alain Lebrenn, the child of my old age, I bequeath this legend, a continuation of our plebeian annals. I shall join to these pages the head of a blacksmith's hammer. It will increase the number of our family relics. You are to transmit it, jointly with our annals, to your own descendants.

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"Truly, aunt," put in Mademoiselle Plouernel, "I fail to understand the deep anxiety that the loss of a letter, that seems to have been written to my brother in order to inform him of the delay in our arrival in England, can cause you and Monsieur the Abbot. The matter is a trifle; it can have no serious results; cease to fret about it."

"There are things, my niece, the wide bearings of which you can not understand," answered the Marchioness of Tremblay sententiously; "it is enough that you know that the loss of this letter is most regrettable."

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