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Find that man for me, citoyenne!" he urged, "find him for France." Marguerite had listened to Chauvelin's impassioned speech without uttering a word, scarce making a movement, hardly daring to breathe.
He pressed her in his arms; with head thrown back and swooning eyes, her hair flowing loose over her relaxed form, half fainting, she escaped his hold and ran to shoot the bolt.... The night was far advanced when the citoyenne Blaise opened the outer door of the flat for her lover and whispered to him in the darkness. "Good-bye, sweetheart! it is the hour my father will be coming home.
To the official despatch was added a private letter, in which, without explaining the mission of Mademoiselle de Verneuil, the minister informed him that the affair was entirely outside of the war, and not to interfere with any military operations. The duty of the commanders, he said, was limited to giving assistance to that honorable citoyenne, if occasion arose.
One day in Pluviose, when the snow, falling in heavy flakes, darkened the sky and deadened the noises of the city, the citoyenne Gamelin, who was alone in the lodging heard a knock at the door. She started violently; for months now the slightest noise had set her trembling. She opened the door. A young man of eighteen or twenty walked in, his hat on his head.
"Citoyenne," he said, after a long silence in which there was something terrifying, "I am here to enforce the laws of the Republic." Madame de Dey shuddered. "Have you nothing to reveal to me?" he demanded. "Nothing," she replied, astonished.
Before the next shop he came upon Philippe Desmahis, who, with a tender, conquering-hero air, among the citoyenne Saint-Jorre's perfumes and powders and sachets, was assuring the fair tradeswoman of his undying love, promising to paint her portrait and begging her to vouchsafe him a moment's talk that evening in the Tuileries gardens.
"What! do you not know?" he asked, stupefied with amazement. "Know what?" cried Philip, impetuously. "That Citoyenne Dolores was ordered to appear before the Tribunal at ten o'clock this morning." Two cries rang out on the still air: a cry of rage from Philip, a cry of anguish from Antoinette; then, with tears and exclamations of despair they entreated Aubry to explain.
"What of that?" exclaimed Coursegol, "I will insert the names myself, and then the order will be in favor of citoyen and citoyenne Chamondrin." "But if we should succeed in escaping from this prison, Coursegol, where shall we go?" "To Bridoul's at first, where you will be safe for at least twenty-four hours.
A quarter of an hour later the door opened, and a man wearing the scarf which showed him to be an officer of the municipality entered, followed by two men with the cockade of the Republic in their hats. "This is citizen Porson and citoyenne Martin, his sister," the landlord, who accompanied the party, said. The functionary walked up to the table and said gruffly, "Your papers, citizen."
No sooner did he see her tears than his face changed; his dark blood-shot eyes lit up, and his heavy blue jowl worked as if pumping up the saliva in his dry throat. "Citoyenne, we will do what is necessary.
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