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Our gunners fired with such accuracy that one of our large bombs fell on the English brig, piercing it from deck to keel so that it sank almost immediately. This so infuriated the English admiral that he had all his guns trained on the Lanterne, on which they now opened a violent fire.
My mission being completed, I should have returned to Masséna; but it is rightly said that young soldiers, not recognising danger, confront it more coolly than those with more experience. The spectacle of which I was a witness, I found very interesting. The platform of the Lanterne was floored with flagstones and was the size of a small courtyard.
Some leader of the crowd a Parisian crowd always has a classical leader, who has never read the classics thundered forth, "Tarquin's car! Down with Tarquin!" Therewith came a yell, "A la lanterne Tarquin!"
"Mort aux Prussiens! À la lanterne, Badinguet! Vive la République!" Jack turned away from the window. The tall Sister of Mercy stood beside the bed where Lorraine lay. Jack made a sign. "She is asleep," murmured the Sister; "you may come nearer now. Close the window." Before he could reach the bed the door was opened violently from without, and an officer entered swinging a lantern.
The record ended at length with the student himself, towards the approach of his graduation, when an article appeared in that unpardonable sheet La Lanterne du Progrès, acutely describing and discussing the defects of the system of Seminary education, making a flippant allusion to a circular of His Grace the Archbishop, who prided himself on his style; and signed openly with the boy's name at the bottom!
"Yes, yes," cried the multitude; and it was whispered among them that this was Riquelmont, the author of the satires that were sung on the Pont-Neuf, and were attributed to Marsorio and Pasquin. "Now, gentlemen, listen!" And with a loud voice, Riquelmont began to read: "MANSORIO. Grand miracle. Pasquin. Le soleil dans une lanterne! PASQUIN. Allons done, to me Hernes!
At the beginning of the revolution, when the people were very much incensed against the Abbe, he was one day, on quitting the Assembly, surrounded by an enraged mob, who seized on him, and were hurrying him away to execution, amidst the universal cry of a la lanterne! a la lanterne!
We are now, my dear Aunt Mary, in a magnificent hotel in the fine square, formerly Place Louis Quinze, afterwards Place de la Revolution, and now Place de la Concorde. Here the guillotine was once at work night and day; and here died Louis Seize, and Marie Antoinette, and Madame Roland: opposite to us is the Seine and La Lanterne. On one side of this square are the Champs Elysees.
Even Lamartine condemns the letter, the greater part of which he inserts in his history as one in which "the threat is no less evident than the treachery." Histoire des Girondins, xiii., p. 16. "Gare la Lanterne," alluding to the use of the chains to which the street-lamps were suspended as gibbets. Madame de Campan, ch. xxi. Dumas, "Memoirs of his Own Time," i., p. 353.
Rosaline put the parrot back on his perch, where he swayed from side to side, squawking in protest: "Les bourgeois a la lanterne, nom de dieu!" They both laughed. "Oh, it must be a wonderful life. This barge seems like heaven after the army." "But they pay you well, you Americans." "Seven francs a day." "That's luxury, that." "And be ordered around all day long!"