"Then, in the course of a few months, you can ask to be relieved of these conditions, which are imposed on all of Pichegru's accomplices.
I will back your request." These restrictions, fairly deserved, rather dispirited the young men, but Laurence laughed at them.
"The Emperor of the French," she said, "was badly brought up; he has not yet acquired the habit of bestowing favors graciously." The party found all the inhabitants of the chateau at the gates, and a goodly proportion of the people of the village waiting on the road to see the young men, whose adventures had made them famous throughout the department.

Madame d'Hauteserre held her sons to her breast for a long time, her face covered with tears; she was unable to speak and remained silent, though happy, through a part of the evening.

No sooner had the Simeuse twins dismounted than a cry of surprise arose on all sides, caused by their amazing resemblance,--the same look, the same voice, the same actions.

They both had the same movement in rising from their saddles, in throwing their leg over the crupper of their horses when dismounting, in flinging the reins upon the animal's neck.

Their dress, precisely the same, contributed to this likeness.