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Thence along the north bank of the river, and up the Rue du Temple, the people still yelling, muttering, singing the "Ca ira," and shouting: "A la lanterne! A la lanterne!" Sir Percy Blakeney and his little band of followers had found the Pont Neuf and the adjoining streets practically deserted.

"The times are dangerous, and it is a matter of a week ago since a man was lanterne for no other reason than because he was wearing gloves, which was deemed an aristocratic habit. Come, Mademoiselle, let us gather up your gems. You were going without them some moments ago."

Where's the 'Moralisateur, the 'Lanterne de Diogene, the 'Pelican, the 'Echo de la Bievre'?" "You'd better be careful how you scorn the 'Echo de la Bievre," said Barbet; "why, that's the paper of the 12th arrondissement, from which you expect to be elected; its patrons are those big tanners of the Mouffetard quarter!" "Well, let that go but the 'Pelican'?"

The quaint little walk, with its label of Rue sur les Murs, to which one ascends from beside the Grosse Horloge, leads to this curious Tour de la Lanterne and passes under it.

That first step we take together; I want to go a step further; you retreat, you say, 'No: I reply you are committed; that further step you must take, or I cry 'Traitre! au la lanterne! You talk of 'superior experience: bah! what does experience really tell you?

The harbor is effective to the eye by reason of three battered old towers which, at different points, overhang it and look infinitely weather- washed and sea-silvered. The most striking of these, the Tour de la Lanterne, is a big gray mass, of the fifteenth century, flanked with turrets and crowned with a Gothic steeple.

During the whole time of the proceedings the populace never ceased threatening the judges and shouting, "A la lanterne!" It was even necessary to keep numerous troops and artillery constantly ready to act in the courtyard of the Chatelet. The judges, who had just acquitted M. de Besenval in an affair nearly similar, doubtless dreaded the effects of this fury.

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!

"Faustina, that isn't right. Miss Randolph is a stranger; you shouldn't play tricks on her." "Roundheads were always revolutionists," said the girl recklessly. "A la lanterne! Heads or hats it don't signify which. That is an example of what our Madame calls 'symbolism." "Hush sh! Madame would call it something else. Now how are we going to get the cap down?"

He does not trouble himself about the muttered curses of the commoners against him and his class, or dream of their taking shape some day in the hideous cry of "Down with the aristocrats! A la lanterne!"