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In wild dreamlike procession, embracing whom they met and

pointing him out, they carried him on. Reddening the snowy

streets with the prevailing Republican colour, in winding and

tramping through them, as they had reddened them below the snow

with a deeper dye, they carried him thus into the courtyard of

the building where he lived. Her father had gone on before, to

prepare her, and when her husband stood upon his feet, she

dropped insensible in his arms.