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"Death to the Sow!" was the shriek of Wife Gougeon. "Death to the aristocrat!" shouted the Admiral with a devilish laugh, leading the rush on de Varicourt. The latter defended himself with all his strength, first with his clubbed musket, then with his sword.
"The aristocrats," Jude continued, "have been skipping over the frontiers; the people starving and rising to their rights; we hung Councillor Foulon to the lantern " "And put grass in his mouth, the old animal!" exclaimed Wife Gougeon with vicious hate. "The King " proceeded Jude. "The Big Hog," shouted a Councillor savagely.
Ragged and wretched though they were, they wore colour in profusion. The mass was a rich subject for the artist. Among the women at the front was seen Wife Gougeon brandishing her pistol. The Admiral and Hache were at her side haranguing the leaders.
A stifled struggle with its fastenings were heard from the bundle in the corner. "Bring him over," order the Admiral. Gougeon and Hache went over, lifted the bundle, and deposited it in the centre of the group, where the candle rays brought out amidst it the lines of a face. A woollen gag was across the mouth, the eyes were bloodshot and fear-distorted, but the features were unmistakable.
The Council of the Galley-on-Land were gathered again in Gougeon's shop at two in the morning. All Paris was sleeping, and even the orgies of the Beggars' Ball had sunk to silence. There was animation among the Council, for in a corner, not at first visible, lay a subject of debate a prisoner tightly bound with a rope. Each man held some piece of sharp iron, Wife Gougeon her pistol.
How far the property had become national may be inferred from the fact that the patriot commissioner who took its chattels into his charge, and whose name was signed with a mark at the bottom of the placard, was Gougeon.
"On the Place de Grève," Gougeon replied, showing a little interest, "at eight to-morrow." "How many guards will attend them?" "Six by the cart, with their officers; and the streets are lined with the guards of Paris," continued Gougeon. "You intend a rescue? Sacre!" vociferated Wife Gougeon. "I will be there too; they dare not arrest me.
As for Wife Gougeon, she had stood out on the very floor of the Assembly, flourished her dagger and screamed "Where can I find the Austrian?" At length rain and night brought a certain cessation, and with them hopes rose. The troops were withdrawn at eight.
The ex-felon staggered across a pile of scraps, and raised a triplet of planks which covered a pit. A sickening odour arose. "Down with him," continued the robber Captain. "But his money?" murmured Gougeon. "Never mind it." All the men present caught up Jude and hurried him quickly over the gaping hole, in which he could hear a scuttling of vermin feet and a chorus of squeaks.
"An incomparable scheme," said the Admiral. "Brave Greencaps, don't you see before you all the swag in the great château of Versailles? My God! it is a pretty scheme a scheme worthy of a Galley-on-Land." Even Gougeon seemed to be waked up, and fixed his greedy black eyes on Motte. "Citizens," the Admiral continued, addressing Wife Gougeon. "This is better begun by the women.
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