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"The impudent rascal, flaunting such fine clothes like the aristo that he is." "Bah! these cursed English! They are aristos all of them! And this one with his followers is no better than a spy!" "Paid by that damned English Government to murder all our patriots and to rob the guillotine of her just dues."
To capture the two aristos would be not only a blunder, but criminal folly, unless we can lay hands on the papers at the same time." "But what in Satan's name are those papers?" ejaculated Lebel with a fierce oath. "Think, citizen Lebel! Think!" was Chauvelin's cool rejoinder. "Methinks you might arrive at a pretty shrewd guess."
Of bread they eat a great deal; and, reckoning that at fourpence and the wine at a penny, we find eightpence to be the daily cost of living to the great body of Parisian workmen. We aristos among workpeople dine famously.
He blessed the storm and the rain which had driven him for shelter to this house, where a poisonous plot was being hatched to rob the people of valuable property, and to aid a few more of those abominable aristos in cheating the guillotine of their traitorous heads.
Strange stories were afloat of how he and those aristos whom he rescued became suddenly invisible as they reached the barricades and escaped out of the gates by sheer supernatural agency. No one had seen these mysterious Englishmen; as for their leader, he was never spoken of, save with a superstitious shudder.
He recognized most of the old hats, "tricotteuses," as they were called, who sat there and knitted, whilst head after head fell beneath the knife, and they themselves got quite bespattered with the blood of those cursed aristos. "He! la mere!" said Bibot to one of these horrible hags, "what have you got there?"
He did not think that it was fitting for a citizen who was the equal of anybody to be thus catechised by these SACRRES ARISTOS, even though they were rich English ones. It was distinctly more fitting to his newborn dignity to be as rude as possible; it was a sure sign of servility to meekly reply to civil questions. "I don't know," he said surlily.
An aristocracy is a form of government in which the power is exercised by a privileged order of men, distinguished for their rank and wealth. The word aristocracy is from the Greek word aristos, best, and kratos, power, or krateo, to govern; and means a government of the best. It is also used for the nobility of a country under a monarchical government.
Vaguely he wondered if it would be Henri de Montorgueil or the old Marquis himself who would bring the papers. "Bah! whichever one it is," he muttered, "we can easily get the other, once those abominable papers are in our hands. And even if both the aristos escape," he added mentally, "'tis no matter, once we have the papers." Anon, far away a distant church bell struck the midnight hour.
He cursed violently and at the top of his voice. "What are those d d aristos doing out there?" he shouted. "Just getting into the coach, citizen," replied the sergeant promptly. And Armand and Marguerite were immediately ordered back into the coach. Heron remained at the window for a few moments longer; he had a toothpick in his hand which he was using very freely.
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