The Last Vendee, Vol. 1 of 2

The Last Vendee, Vol. 1 of 2 Synopsis

Excerpt from The Last Vendee, Vol. 1 of 2: Or the She-Wolves of Machecoul

IF you ever chanced, dear reader, to go from Nantes to Bourgneuf you must, before reaching saint-philbert, have skirted the southern corner of the lake of grand-lieu, and then, continuing your way, you arrived, at the end of one hour or two hours, according to whether you were on foot or in a carriage, at the first trees of the forest of Machecoul.

There, to left of the road, among a fine clump of trees belonging, apparently, to the forest from which it is sepa rated only by the main road, you must have seen the sharp points of two slender turrets and the gray roof of a little castle hidden among the foliage.

The cracked walls of this manor-house, its broken win dows, and its damp roofs covered with wild iris and para site mosses, gave it, in Spite of its feudal pretensions and ?anking turrets, so forlorn an appearance that no one at a passing glance would envy its possessor, were it not for its exquisite Situation Opposite to the noble trees of the forest of Machecoul, the verdant billows of which rose on the horizon as far as the eye could reach.

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