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They put him into a great chair they had among them, and which

they had taken either out of the Court itself, or one of its

rooms or passages. Over the chair they had thrown a red flag, and

to the back of it they had bound a pike with a red cap on its

top. In this car of triumph, not even the Doctor's entreaties

could prevent his being carried to his home on men's shoulders,

with a confused sea of red caps heaving about him, and casting up

to sight from the stormy deep such wrecks of faces, that he more

than once misdoubted his mind being in confusion, and that he was

in the tumbril on his way to the Guillotine.