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The six sisters of the valleys : an historical romance - University Library

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282 THE SIX SISTEES OF THE VALLEYS.<br />

slightly, considering that <strong>the</strong> Church <strong>of</strong>Rome<br />

never ceases to carry on <strong>an</strong> open or a secret<br />

warfare against us. Fraud <strong>an</strong>d treachery,<br />

violence, bloodshed, <strong>the</strong> dungeon, <strong>the</strong> rack,<br />

<strong>an</strong>d <strong>the</strong> stake,—<strong>the</strong>se are her weapons for<br />

bringing Caesar <strong>an</strong>d his empire to <strong>the</strong> foot<br />

<strong>of</strong> Calvary's Cross. But Moderator, from<br />

<strong>the</strong> little that fell from you, I ga<strong>the</strong>red that<br />

you had become a soldier upon Angrogna's<br />

hills. C<strong>an</strong> you give me <strong>an</strong> outline <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

events <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> last three days ?"<br />

" La Tour," replied Leger, " as you<br />

know, was taken by stratagem on Saturday<br />

evening. On Monday immense bodies at-<br />

tacked us on those heights above La Tour,<br />

St. John, <strong>an</strong>d Angrogna, but we held our<br />

entrenchments. Yesterday two attacks were<br />

made, <strong>an</strong>d I was in <strong>the</strong> one made on Tail-<br />

laret. Jahier repulsed that on Castelluzzo,<br />

<strong>an</strong>d through God's mercy we were also suc-<br />

cessful. We lost two men <strong>an</strong>d <strong>the</strong>y left<br />

fifty dead in <strong>the</strong> field,—a fact sufficient to<br />

justify <strong>the</strong> saying <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Duke, c that <strong>the</strong>

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