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ANOTHER DUPE. On arriving at Dormans, the party had to get out at an inn as nothing was prepared for them. Either from Petion's orders or from the Royal Family's snubbing him on the journey…
THE CENTRE OF CATASTROPHES. After the repast, the King called the three Lifeguards into council with the Queen and Lady Elizabeth. "Gentlemen," he began, "yesterday, M. Petion proposed…
THE BITTER CUP. When the Queen came to her senses she was in her sleeping room in the Tuileries. Her favorite bed-chamber women, Lady Misery and Madam Campan were at hand. Though they told her the Da…
AT LAST THEY ARE HAPPY! It is easy for us who know the state of Andrea's heart to imagine what she suffered from the time of Isidore's leaving. She trembled for the grand plot failing or su…
CORRECTING THE PETITION. On the Field of Mars the Altar of the Country still stood, set up for the anniversary of the Bastile Capture, a skeleton of the past. On this sixteenth of July, it was used a…
CAGLIOSTRO'S COUNSEL. Paris had heard the fusillade and quivered, feeling that she had been wounded and the blood was flowing. The Queen had sent her confidential valet Weber to the spot to get …
THE SQUEEZED LEMON. On the day after the Constituent Assembly dissolved, that is, the second of October, at Barnave's usual hour for seeing the Queen, he was ushered into the Grand Study. On the…
THE FIELD OF BLOOD. Lugubrious was the scene which met the eye of a young man who trod the Champ de Mars, after the tragedy of which Bailly and Lafayette were the principal actors. It was illumined b…
IN THE HOSPITAL. Gilbert had obeyed Cagliostro's injunction to go to the Groscaillou Hospital to attend to a patient. At this period hospitals were far from being organized as at present, partic…
THE MOTHER'S BLESSING. It was six o'clock in the afternoon, broad day, when Catherine arrived home. Had Isidore been alive and she were coming to visit her mother in health, she would have …
