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Monseigneur gone, and the three strong men absolving themselves

from the sin of having drawn his high wages, by being more than

ready and willing to cut his throat on the altar of the dawning

Republic one and indivisible of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or

Death, Monseigneur's house had been first sequestrated, and then

confiscated. For, all things moved so fast, and decree followed

decree with that fierce precipitation, that now upon the third

night of the autumn month of September, patriot emissaries of the

law were in possession of Monseigneur's house, and had marked it

with the tri-colour, and were drinking brandy in its state

apartments.