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At the Chateau de Severac the hot, fevered days were passing but slowly.
Aimee and the Baroness were still there, and now they had been joined by the Baron, who had in Brussels been assured that the enemy would respect the houses of the rich, and that at his splendid home, perched high on that rock above the Meuse, they would have nothing to fear. Rigaux, indeed, had declared to his friend that at the chateau they would be far safer than in any of the towns, which might be invested or bombarded -- safer even than in Brussels itself.