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Updated: May 23, 2025
It was great fun to see the aristos arriving for the reception of Madame la Guillotine, and the places close by the platform were very much sought after. Bibot, during the day, had been on duty on the Place.
An Incorruptible, if ever there was one. Just look at the simplicity, almost the poverty, in which he lived! Only the aristos hated him, and the fat bourgeois who battened on the people. Citizen Marat had sent hundreds of them to the guillotine with a stroke of his pen or a denunciation from his fearless tongue. Mole did not pause to listen to these comments.
Sergeant Grospierre had been sent to the guillotine for allowing a whole family of aristos to slip out of the North Gate under his very nose.
I took Claribel in my arms. "Vos passeports," they demanded. "Here are our American passports," said Hermione: "we are Americans." "Yes, Americans, republicans!" cried Mrs. Leare: "we fraternize with all republicans in France." "Aristos," said a man between his teeth, glancing at her dress and at that of Hermione. "What does he say?" cried Mrs. Leare, who did not catch the word.
Suddenly a distant rattle caught his subconscious ear: the rattle of wheels on rough cobble-stones. Immediately the crowd began to cheer and to shout; some sang the "Ca ira!" and others screamed: "Les aristos! a la lanterne! a mort! a mort! les aristos!" He saw it all quite plainly, for the darkness had vanished, and the vision was more vivid than even reality could have been.
Mademoiselle Crystal, you promised me your hand, I have not released you from that promise yet. I will come and claim it soon." "Excitement seems to have turned your brain, M. de Marmont," was all that Crystal said, and she walked straight past him to the carriage door. Victor smothered a curse. These aristos were as arrogant as ever. What lesson had the revolution and the guillotine taught them?
Armand, with his rough clothes soiled with coal-dust, his face grimy and streaked with sweat, certainly looked to have but little in common with the ci-devant aristos who formed the hulk of the groups in the courtyard. He looked up; the soldier was regarding him with obvious amusement, and at sight of Armand's wild, anxious eyes he gave vent to a coarse jest.
We will pay handsomely for your protection." Before he could answer her two or three fellows, more drunk than the rest, burst out with a proposition: "She says they are not aristos, but republicans. Let her prove it. She cannot, if she be a true republican, refuse to kiss her fellow-patriots." I started and was about to knock the rascal down with the bag of diamonds.
He heard a man next to him explaining to his friend that these were the female prisoners who would be brought to trial that day, and he felt that his heart must burst at the thought that mayhap Jeanne would be among them. He elbowed his way cautiously to the front rank. Soon he found himself beside a sentinel who, with a good-humoured jest, made way for him that he might watch the aristos.
A true "aristos," and commander of men. A man worthy to have commanded and guided forward, in good ways, twelve hundred of the best common-people in London or the world: he was here, for many years past, giving all his care and faculty to command, and guide forward in such ways as there were, twelve hundred of the worst.
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