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Rh Just as daylight was extending itself over every object, and when they had turned round a projecting rock, they perceived in the valley beneath them, the Camisards marching with their prisoners. At the same moment old Favart came racing up and announced to them, that Roland had descended with a troop from the summit of that mountain, but that Colonel Julien with a considerable body of men, was now posted between them both, and that it would be very difficult to turn them. Catinat marched forward with his band and was highly exasperated on perceiving the obstacle to his further progress. "Mameluke!" exclaimed he, "this Julien whose death I have long since sworn, crosses all our undertakings. No mercy, should he once fall into our hands, nor need he expect any either, as he is an apostate brother, who has abandoned our reformed community, merely to please the government and to enjoy worldly honour·"

A loud shouting was heard, and Ravanel