CHAPTER VI.

THE REVOLUTION IN THE COUNTRY. Our intention being to temporarily abandon the fortunes of our high and mighty characters to follow those of more humble but perhaps no less engaging heroes, we take up with Sebastian Gilbert whom his father, immediately after his release from the Bastile, confided to a young peasant named Ange Pitou, foster-brother of the youth, and despatched them to the latter’s birthplace, Villers Cotterets. It was eighteen leagues from the city, and Gilbert might have sent them down by stage-coac…