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Armand's very soul was in his eyes. So far he had not yet caught sight of his beloved, and slowly very slowly a ray of hope was filtering through the darkness of his despair. The sentinel, who had stood aside for him, chaffed him for his intentness. "Have you a sweetheart among these aristos, citizen?" he asked. "You seem to be devouring them with your eyes."
But these sallies seemed to amuse Citoyen Bibot exceedingly; he laughed until his sides ached, and the tears streamed down his cheeks. "Nay, nay!" he said at last, "those aristos weren't in the cart; the driver was not the Scarlet Pimpernel!" "What?" "No! The captain of the guard was that damned Englishman in disguise, and everyone of his soldiers aristos!"
"I know," she rejoined quietly, "that you, Citizen Merlin, are determined that someone shall pay for this day's blunder. You dare not now attack the Citizen-Deputy, and so you must be content with me." "Enough of this talk now; I have no time to bandy words with aristos," he said roughly. "Come now, follow the men quietly. Resistance would only aggravate your case."
"Tomfoolery, citizen?" queried the other blandly. "What tomfoolery, pray?" "Why, about those papers!" growled Lebel savagely. "Curse you for an interfering busybody! It was I who got information that those pestilential aristos, the Montorgueils, far from having fled the country are in hiding somewhere in my district.
"You have been dreaming, citizen Tournefort," the old man said, with a husky little laugh. "Sit down, and let me get you some coffee " "Don't try and hoodwink me, Grosjean!" Tournefort cried now in a sudden access of rage. "I tell you that I saw the light. I heard the aristos talking.
It was to be seen every day, for those aristos were such fools!
The name of a score or more of desirable branches of knowledge were printed in a table, and the pupil's progress in each was marked by the professor. In Greek Georgie was pronounced Aristos, in Latin Optimus, in French Très bien, etc.; and everybody had prizes for everything at the end of the year. Even that idle young scapegrace of a Master Todd, godson of Mr.
"One moment," he broke in somewhat more sternly, as the woman's garrulity was getting on his nerves. "As you say, I know the Leridans' house. I have had cause to send children there myself. Children of aristos or of fat bourgeois, whom it was our duty to turn into good citizens.
"Food for the starving fish in the river," was the ready response. "Stand aside, citizen," he added, with a round curse; "I have my orders from citizen Danton himself about these six aristos. You hinder me at your peril."
"About five minutes past ten, a few rain-drops fell. The tumbrils were already rattling along amidst the frenzied jeers of the crowd. The first one contained a group of ci-devant aristos, laughing and singing one elderly vicomtesse was playing on a mouth-organ.
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