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Sida 253 - Anglade was innocent of the robbery committed in the apartments of the Count de Montgomery ; that the perpetrators were one Vincent Belestre, the son of a tanner of Mans, and a priest named Gagnard, a native also of Mans, who had been the count's almoner. The letters...
Sida 276 - Much other discourse of the same kind he repeated. And De la Comble deposed that Belestre had shown her great sums of money and a beautiful pearl necklace ; and when she asked him where he got all this, he answered that he had won it at play. These and many other circumstances related by this woman confirmed his guilt beyond a doubt. In his pocket...
Sida 151 - ... their food depended on charity, and they were not allowed to see any body, they had no relief but what the priest from time to time procured them. At length, and as a great favour, they were removed to a place less damp, to which there was a little window ; but the window was stopped, and the fumes of the charcoal were as noxious here as in the cavern they had left. Here they remained, however (Providence having prolonged their lives), for four or five months.
Sida 150 - ... poor child ; and then it was that the distraction and despair of the mother was at its height. In the middle of a rigorous winter they were in a cavern where no air could enter, and where the damps only lined the wall ; a little charcoal in an earthen pot was all the fire they had, and the smoke was so offensive and dangerous that it increased rather than diminished their sufferings. In this dismal place the mother saw her child sinking under a disease for which she had no remedies : cold sweats...
Sida 275 - Anglade to the galleys, he was in a room adjoining to one where Belestre and Gagnard were drinking and feasting ; that he heard the former say to the latter, " Come, my friend, let us drink and enjoy ourselves, while this fine fellow, this Marquis d'Anglade, is at the galleys." To which Gagnard replied, with a sigh, " Poor man, I cannot help being sorry for him : he was a good kind of man, and was always very civil and obliging to me.
Sida 150 - The noisome damps, the want of proper food and of fresh fair, overcame the tender frame of the poor child ; and then it was that the distraction and despair of the mother was at its height. In the middle of a rigorous winter they were in a cavern where no air could enter, and where the damps only lined the wall ; a little charcoal in an earthen pot was all the fire they had, and the smoke was so offensive and dangerous that it increased rather than diminished their sufferings. In this dismal place...
Sida 275 - Belestre had obtained from Gagnard the impressions of the Count's keys in wax, by which means he had others made, that opened the locks. He said, that soon after the condemnation of d'Anglade to the...
Sida 256 - Gagnard, who was the son of the gaoler of Mans, had come to Paris without either clothes or money, and had subsisted on charity or by saying masses at St. Esprit, by which he hardly gained enough to keep him alive, when the Count de Montgomery took him. It was impossible what he got in his service as wages could enrich him, yet immediately after quitting it he was seen clothed neatly in his clerical habit ; his...
Sida 136 - ... him a party, in order to prevent his being competent to give judgment; but this attempt failed, and served only to add personal animosity to the prejudice this officer had before taken against Anglade. Witnesses were examined ; but, far from their being heard with impartiality, their evidence was twisted to the purposes of those who desired to prove guilty the man they were determined to believe so. The almoner, Francis...
Sida 253 - Mans, and a priest named Gagnard, a native also of Mans, who had been the count's almoner. The letters added that a woman of the name of De la Comble could give light into the whole affair. One of these letters was sent to the Countess de Montgomery, who however had not generosity enough to...

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