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Updated: May 16, 2025
"The devil seize the Aristocrats! They're all in such a hurry to get to the guillotine that they won't even give a man time to eat his victuals in peace!" "There's no choice now," muttered Lomaque, angrily thrusting the arrest-order and the three-cornered note into his pocket.
They were brought in, and with them ominously returned the police agent Magloire with a small sealed packet. It contained an arrest-order and a tiny three-cornered note, looking more like a love-letter, or a lady's invitation to a party, than anything else.
"Silence!" retorted Lomaque, imperiously. "Silence, citizen, and respect to a decree of the Republic!" "You blackguard! show me the arrest-order!" said Danville. "Who has dared to denounce my wife?" "You have!" said Lomaque, turning on him with a grin of contempt. "You and 'blackguard' back in your teeth! You, in denouncing her brother!
Robespierre and his Hard-hitters were passing the house. The smoke of the torch-light was rolling in at the window; the tramping footsteps struck heavier and heavier on the ground; the low sullen roar of the Marseillaise was swelling to its loudest, as Lomaque referred for a moment to his arrest-order, and then answered: "To the prison of St. Lazare!" The head jailer of St.
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