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Before De Courval and his wife returned to France, the Directory had come and gone, the greatest of soldiers had taken on the rule, and the grave Huguenot mother had gone to her grave in Christ Church yard.
Mrs. Swanwick firmly refused to leave her country. "Better, far better," she said, "Margaret, that thou shouldst be without me. I shall live to see thee again and the children."
In after years in Penn's City men read of Napoleon's soldier, General the Comte de Courval and of the American beauty at the Emperor's court, while over their Madeira the older men talked of the German gentleman who had been so long among them, and passed so mysteriously out of the knowledge of all.
Transcriber's Note
1. All punctuation inconsistencies between the "List of Illustrations" and the "Illustrations" themselves have been retained as printed.
2. Punctuation corrections:
p. 72, removed leading double quote (In the hall Dr. Chovet....)
p. 121, changed comma to period (of what was to come.)