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They now surrounded the first carriage, shouting furiously, and shattering the windows with their sabres. "Minister Roberjot! Are you Minister Roberjot?" asked a dozen wild, howling voices. Roberjot's grave and threatening face, illuminated by the glare of the torch, appeared immediately in the aperture of the window.
He then bent forward, and with a quick grasp, tore the watch and chain from the neck of Roberjot's fainting wife. His task was now accomplished, and he galloped to the second carriage, to which the other hussars had just dragged the torch- bearer, and which they had completely surrounded. "Bonnier, alight!" howled the hussars, furiously "Bonnier, alight!"
The ladies had been taken into the carriages by their servants; the hussars were engaged in plundering the three remaining carriages, the inmates of which, however, forewarned in time by the shrieks and groans that had reached them from the scene of Roberjot's assassination, had left and fled across the marshy meadows to the wall of the castle garden.
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