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One of the red-caps cocked a pistol, and pointed it towards the very lace where Sam was standing. He stood motionless breathless; expecting the next moment to be his last. Fortunately, his dingy complexion was in his favor, and made no glare among the leaves. "'Tis no one," said the man with the lanthorn. "What a plague! you would not fire off your pistol and alarm the country."
"Down with him!" cried another. Sam heard the cocking of a pistol, but did not pause for the report. He scrambled over rock and stone, through bush and briar; rolled down banks like a hedgehog; scrambled up others like a catamount. In every direction he heard some one or other of the gang hemming him in. At length he reached the rocky ridge along the river; one of the red-caps was hard behind him.
In 1789 Robespierre assured Garat that Necker was plundering the Treasury, and that people had seen mules loaded with the gold and silver he was sending off by millions to Geneva. Carnot, "Memoires," I. 512. Principles have lost their vigor. Nothing remains but red-caps worn by intrigue." Report by Courtois, "Pieces justificatives" No.20. Cf. Hamel, III., 43, 71.
"Let us, like the Hosts of Midian, prowl around this happy Sabbeth eve, my dear," quoth he to Dam, "and, like wise virgins, up and smite them, when we meet the Red-Caps.... No, I'm getting confused.
"Abominable child! I do not know what your father was! I do not wish to know! I know nothing about that, and I do not know him! But what I do know is, that there never was anything but scoundrels among those men! They were all rascals, assassins, red-caps, thieves! I say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! See here, you are no more a baron than my slipper is!
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