Michel and Angele [A Ladder of Swords], Complete

register of the Walloon Church there,

gomery with all her f

ion"-"Tous ceux ce fur

ans avoir Rendu Raiso

rest, Ministre de Mada

t ceux la po' quoy Il

estoit en lie

gele Claude Aubert, daughter of Monsieur de la Haie Aubert, Councillor of the Parliament o

ment' satisfactory to myself and in sympathy with fact, when the Angel of Accident stepped forward with some "human documents." Then I found that my tale, woven back from the two obscure records I have given, was the true story of two

n March of the year 157_. The letter lies beside me as I write, and I can scarcely believe that three and a quarter centuries have passed since it was written, and that she who

y of the year 157_, at

f the same of Jersey

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r by safe carriage com

s it hath not known si

port of St. Malo, and

eat fear have I lived,

er of mischance! But

and me He hath set sa

the

brave soldier, endurin

ep thy blood stirring

re so opprobriously c

of my mind thereupon,

ee-smugglers and pira

lves do harry the flo

ichel, I plead for the

as! my selfish heart,

same high cause, and s

s that I ask thee to

h peril, that the way

ed Carteret is hazardo

iness are se

arteret thou wilt see

dland called Tour de

the Ecrehos. These wi

Hatainville. Near by t

iting thee. By day an

d for

s this to thee (a pira

am told, a wife in eve

ost heinous sin!) will

er, which is still b

him swear by the litt

earings he doth

rue, Michel. If thou

ul thou art in all; f

ounced, with a full sa

because thou mayst s

uth as were on thy l

d my life 'twixt Paris

hee, and shall so lo

shall fall that will

re

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fter

come to the heights

thereto by a lad

what time the great chief was besieged in the Castle of Domfront in Normandy. When the siege grew desperate, Montgomery besought the intrepid young Huguenot

ith the most kind heart" presented himself, delivered her letter to De la Foret, and proceeded with the party to the coast

ersuasion the captain of the frigate agreed to land Madame de Montgomery upon the island of Jersey,