Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 21, 2025
The women jeered at the soldiers as soon as they appeared, and Merlin dared not actually forbid Deroulede to speak. "A la lanterne, vieux cretin!" shouted one of the women, thrusting her fist under Merlin's nose. "Give the word, Citizen-Deputy," rejoined another, "and we'll break his ugly face. Nous lui casserons la gueule!" "A la lanterne! A la lanterne!"
He is planning, and hopes to effect, the release of ci-devant Marie Antoinette, widow of the traitor Louis Capet. Haste! ye representatives of the people! proofs of his assertion, papers and plans, are still in the house of the Citizen-Deputy Deroulede. This statement is made by one who knows. I. The 23rd Fructidor.
He was going thither, though he did not know it, and was even now trying to take the hand which had deliberately sent him there. At last she made an effort to speak, and in a toneless, even voice she contrived to murmur: "You are not going for long, Citizen-Deputy?" "In these times, mademoiselle," he replied, "any farewell might be for ever.
In these troublous times she might easily have been both. In any case she was a childhood's companion of the Citizen-Deputy whether on an equal or a humbler footing, Juliette would have given much to ascertain. With the marvellous instinct peculiar to women of temperament, she had already divined Anne Mie's love for Deroulede.
Honore, and asked of the elderly female who admitted him if he might see the Citizen-deputy Robespierre. A berline stood at the door, the postillion at the horses' heads, and about it there was some bustle, as if in preparation of a departure. But La Boulaye paid no heed to it as he entered the house.
"At your service, Citizen-Deputy!" said Deroulede, quietly stepping aside, in order to make way for Merlin and his men. Resistance was useless, and, like all strong, determined natures, he knew when it was best to give in. During this while, Juliette had neither moved nor uttered a sound.
"And mind, you are to see nothing and hear nothing of what goes on in the next room," said the taller of the two strangers; "and when we go there'll be another couple of louis for you. Is that understood?" "Yes! it's understood," grunted Rondeau sullenly; "but I am running great risks. The citizen-deputy sometimes returns at ten o'clock, but sometimes at nine.... I never know."
"Silence, Armand!" his father commanded, laying a hand upon his sleeve. "Understand me, citizen-deputy, or citizen-commissioner, or citizen-blackguard or whatever you call your vile self, you are come on a fruitless journey to Bellecour. Neither I nor my son is so lost to the duty which we owe our rank as to so much as dream of acceding to your preposterous request.
I have the right to think of you and for you the inalienable right conferred upon me by my great love for you." "Citizen-Deputy!" "Nay, Juliette; I know my folly, and I know my presumption. I know the pride of your caste and of your party, and how much you despise the partisan of the squalid mob of France. Have I said that I aspired to gain your love? I wonder if I have ever dreamed it?
"Do you know that you brought me here on a fool's errand?" he asked viciously; "that the Citizen-Deputy Deroulede cannot be sent to the guillotine on mere suspicion, eh? Did you know that, when you wrote out that denunciation?" "No; I did not know." "You thought we could arrest him on mere suspicion?" "Yes." "You knew he was Innocent?" "I knew it." "Why did you burn your love letters?"
Word Of The Day
Others Looking