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Unanimously voted. At heart and by descent an Aristocrat, an

enemy of the Republic, a notorious oppressor of the People. Back

to the Conciergerie, and Death within four-and-twenty hours!

CHAPTER XI. Dusk

The wretched wife of the innocent man thus doomed to die, fell

under the sentence, as if she had been mortally stricken. But,

she uttered no sound; and so strong was the voice within her,

representing that it was she of all the world who must uphold him

in his misery and not augment it, that it quickly raised her,

even from that shock.

The Judges having to take part in a public demonstration out of

doors, the Tribunal adjourned. The quick noise and movement of

the court's emptying itself by many passages had not ceased, when

Lucie stood stretching out her arms towards her husband, with

nothing in her face but love and consolation.

"If I might touch him! If I might embrace him once! O, good

citizens, if you would have so much compassion for us!"