Page:Younger brother, or, The sufferings of Saint Andre.pdf/9

9 at sea when the truce was broken, his ship was attacked by the English and he was conveyed a prisoner to Falmouth, a port town on the southern coast of England He lost at once, his liberty and fortune, and all his flattering prospects instantly vanished. He wrote to his father, but to augment his calamity, the only answer he received, was full of the most bitter reproaches.

At the expiration of six months, he was released from confinement. He embarked at Falmouth, and soon beheld his native shore, but with emotions far different from those, he had fondly hoped to experience; and he arrived at Brest, nearly in the same situation in which he had left it, six years before. Without money, without the common necessities of life, and without resources, he recollected a surgeon, named Bertrand, at whose house he had formerly lodged, and from whom he had received many proofs of friendship. He soon found this worthy man, who offered him his power. St. Andre did not blush to be indebted to the kind offices of friendship. He wrote to his father; and having never