"[...] "True!" assented the Marquis. "But this fellow, this Black Seigneur-why is the Governor so anxious to lay hands on him? Who is he, and what has he done? I confess," languidly, "to a mild curiosity." "He's a privateersman and an outlaw, and has done enough to hang himself a dozen times-" "When you capture him!" interposed the visitor lightly. A moment he studied the massive oak beams of the ceiling. "Why do they call him the Black Seigneur? An odd sobriquet!" "His father was a Seigneur-the last of the fief of Desaurac ...
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"[...] "True!" assented the Marquis. "But this fellow, this Black Seigneur-why is the Governor so anxious to lay hands on him? Who is he, and what has he done? I confess," languidly, "to a mild curiosity." "He's a privateersman and an outlaw, and has done enough to hang himself a dozen times-" "When you capture him!" interposed the visitor lightly. A moment he studied the massive oak beams of the ceiling. "Why do they call him the Black Seigneur? An odd sobriquet!" "His father was a Seigneur-the last of the fief of Desaurac. The Seigneurs have all been fair men for generations, while this fellow-" "Then he has noble blood in him?" The Marquis showed surprise. "Where is the fief?" "The woods on the shore mark the beginning of it." "But-I don't understand. The father was a Seigneur; the son-" Bluntly the commandant explained; the son was a natural child; the mother, a common peasant woman whom the former Seigneur had[...]."
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