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049 - Book 7 Chapter 10 The Grand Entries · The French Revolution Volume 1 - The Bastille

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  Speaker 1: The French Revolution are history by Thomas Carlyle, Volume one,
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  Speaker 1: Book seven, The Insurrection of Women, Chapter ten, The Grand Entries.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by
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  Speaker 1: Peter Dan Book seven, Chapter ten, The Grand Entries. The
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  Speaker 1: dull dawn of a new morning, drizzly and chill, had
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  Speaker 1: but broken over Versailles, when it pleased Destiny that a
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  Speaker 1: body guard should look out of the window on the
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  Speaker 1: right wing of the chateau to see what prospect there
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  Speaker 1: was in heaven and in earth. Rascality male and female
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  Speaker 1: is prowling in view of him. His fasting stomach is
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  Speaker 1: with good cause sour. He perhaps cannot forbear a passing
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  Speaker 1: malisson on them, least of all can he forbear answering
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  Speaker 1: Such ill words breed worse till the worst word came,
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  Speaker 1: And then the ill deed did the maladies, and bodyguard
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  Speaker 1: getting as was to inevitable, better malediction than he gave
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  Speaker 1: load his musketoon and threatened to fire, and actually fire
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  Speaker 1: were wise who whist it stands, asserted to us not
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  Speaker 1: credibly be this as it may menaced. Rascality in whinnying
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  Speaker 1: scorn is shaking at all greats. The fastening of one
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  Speaker 1: some right it was a chain merely gives way. Rascality
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  Speaker 1: is in the Grand court, whinnying louder still the maladice
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  Speaker 1: and bodyguard, more bodyguards than he do now give fire.
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  Speaker 1: A man's arm is shattered. Laquantra will depose that the
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  Speaker 1: Sieur Cardan, a national guard without arms, was stabbed. But
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  Speaker 1: see sure enough, poor Jerame Lerettier, an unarmed national guard,
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  Speaker 1: he to cabinet maker, a saddler son of Paris, with
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  Speaker 1: the down of youth hood still on his chin, he
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  Speaker 1: reels death stricken, rushes to the pavement, scattering it with
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  Speaker 1: his blood and brains. Al lelu wild than Irish wakes,
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  Speaker 1: rises the howl of pity, of infinite revenge. In few
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  Speaker 1: moments the great of the inner and inmost court, which
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  Speaker 1: they name Court of Marble, this too is forced or
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  Speaker 1: surprised and burst open. The Court of Marble, too is
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  Speaker 1: overflowed up the grand staircase, up all stairs and entrances
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  Speaker 1: rushes the living deluge deshuttan varignyi. The two sentry bodyguards
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  Speaker 1: are trodden down, a massacred with a hundred pikes. Women
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  Speaker 1: snatch their cutlasses or any weapon and storm in manadic.
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  Speaker 1: Other women lift the corpse of shot Jeram, lay it
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  Speaker 1: down on the marble steps. There shall the livid face
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  Speaker 1: and smashed head dumb forever speak woe now to of
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  Speaker 1: all body guards. Mercy is none for them. Mermandra de
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  Speaker 1: Saint Marie pleads with soft words on the grand staircase,
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  Speaker 1: descending four steps to the roaring tornado. His comrades snatch
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  Speaker 1: him up by the skirts and belts, literally from the
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  Speaker 1: jaws of destruction, and slammed to their door. This also
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  Speaker 1: will stand few instants. The panels shivering in like potsherds.
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  Speaker 1: Barricading serves not fly fast, ye, bodyguards rabid insurrection like
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  Speaker 1: the hell hound, chase up, roaring at your heels. The
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  Speaker 1: terror struck bodyguards fly, bolting and barricading. It follows Withtherwood
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  Speaker 1: through Hall on hall. Woe now towards the Queen. Sweet
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  Speaker 1: of rooms in the furthest room of which the Queen
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  Speaker 1: is now asleep. Five sentinels rush through that long suite.
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  Speaker 1: They are in the ante room, knocking loud, Save the Queen. Trembling.
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  Speaker 1: Women fall at their feet with tears or answered, yes,
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  Speaker 1: we will die, save ee. The queen tremble. Not women,
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  Speaker 1: but haste for low. Another voice shouts far through the
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  Speaker 1: outermost door, save the Queen, and the door shut. It
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  Speaker 1: is brave Mermandra's voice that shouts this second warning. He
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  Speaker 1: has stormed across imminent death to do it front's imminent death.
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  Speaker 1: Having done it, brave Tad de vesdu repair Air, bent
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  Speaker 1: on the same desperate service, was borne down with pikes.
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  Speaker 1: His comrades hardly snatched him in again alive. Miamandra and Tardevay.
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  Speaker 1: Let the names of these two bodyguards, as the names
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  Speaker 1: of brave men should live long. Trembling maids of honor,
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  Speaker 1: one of whom, from a far caught glimpse of Miamandra,
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  Speaker 1: as well as hurt him, hastily wrap the Queen. Not
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  Speaker 1: in robes of state. She flies for her life across
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  Speaker 1: the Oil de Boeuf, against the main door, of which
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  Speaker 1: two insurrection batters. She is in the King's apartment, in
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  Speaker 1: the King's arms. She clasps her children amid a faithful few.
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  Speaker 1: The imperial hearted bursts into mother's tears, Oh my friends,
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  Speaker 1: save me and my children. A mes amis sauvein way mess.
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  Speaker 1: Upon the battering of insurrectionary axes clangs audible across the
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  Speaker 1: oil de boeuf. What an hour. Yes, friends are hideous,
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  Speaker 1: fearful hour, shameful alike to governed and governor, wherein governed
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  Speaker 1: and governor ignor ominiously testify that their relation is at
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  Speaker 1: an end. Rage, which had brood itself in twenty thousand
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  Speaker 1: hearts for the last four and twenty hours, has taken fire.
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  Speaker 1: Jerome's brained corpse lies there as live coal. It is,
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  Speaker 1: as we said, the infinite element bursting in wild, surging
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  Speaker 1: through all corridors and conduits. Meanwhile, the poor bodyguards have
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  Speaker 1: got hunted mostly into the oil of birth. They may
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  Speaker 1: die there at the King's threshold. They can do little
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  Speaker 1: to defend it. They are heaping Tabaret's stools of honor,
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  Speaker 1: benches and all moveables against the door at which the
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  Speaker 1: acts of insurrection the thunders. But did brave Meomandra perish
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  Speaker 1: then at the Queen's door? No, he was fractured, slashed, lacerated,
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  Speaker 1: left for dead. He has nevertheless crawled hither and shall
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  Speaker 1: live honored of loyal France. Remark also in flat contradiction
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  Speaker 1: to much which has been said and sung, that insurrection
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  Speaker 1: did not burst that door he had defended, but hurry elsewhere,
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  Speaker 1: seeking new bodyguards. Poor bodyguards with their thiastes opera repast
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  Speaker 1: well for them. That insurrection has only picks and axes,
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  Speaker 1: no right sieging tools. It shakes and thunders. Must they
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  Speaker 1: all perish miserably, and royalty with them. Deschhutt and Varigny,
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  Speaker 1: massacred at the first inbreak, have been beheaded in the
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  Speaker 1: marble court, a sacrifice to Jerome's mayonnaise. Jourdain with the
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  Speaker 1: tile beard, did that duty willingly, and asked if there
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  Speaker 1: were any more another captive. They are leading round the
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  Speaker 1: corpse with howl chauntings. May not Jordan again tuck up
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  Speaker 1: his sleeves, and Louder and Louder rages insurrection within plundering.
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  Speaker 1: If it cannot kill Louder and Louder at thunders at
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  Speaker 1: the Oyer de Boeuf, what can now hinder its bursting
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  Speaker 1: in on a sudden it ceases. The battering has ceased,
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  Speaker 1: while rushing, the cries grow fainter. There is silence, or
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  Speaker 1: the tramp of regular steps, then a friendly knocking. We
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  Speaker 1: are the center Grenadier's old guard Francaise. Open to us,
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  Speaker 1: Monsieur of the Guarde de corps. We have not forgotten
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  Speaker 1: how you saved, I said Fontinoy. The door is opened,
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  Speaker 1: enter Captain Gondran and the Senta grenadiers. There are military embracings.
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  Speaker 1: There is sudden deliverance from death into life, strange sons
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  Speaker 1: of Adam. It was to exterminate these guard du corps
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  Speaker 1: that the Center Grenadiers left home, and now they have
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  Speaker 1: rushed to save them from extermination. The memory of common
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  Speaker 1: peril of old help melts. The rough heart Bosom is
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  Speaker 1: clasped to bosom not in war. The king shows himself
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  Speaker 1: one moment through the door of his apartment with do
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  Speaker 1: not hurt my guards. Soylfrere let us be brothers, cries
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  Speaker 1: Captain Gondrun, and again dashes off with leveled bayonets to
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  Speaker 1: sweep the palace clear. Now to Lafayette, suddenly roused not
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  Speaker 1: from sleep, for his eyes had not yet closed, arrives
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  Speaker 1: with passionate pop eloquence, with prompt military word of command.
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  Speaker 1: National guards, suddenly roused by sound of trumpet and alarm drum,
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  Speaker 1: are all arriving. The death melly ceases. The first sky
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  Speaker 1: lambent blaze of insurrection is got damped down. It burns
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  Speaker 1: now if unextinguished, yet flameless as charred coals do, and
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  Speaker 1: not inextinguishable. The king's apartments are safe. Ministers, officials, and
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  Speaker 1: even some loyal national deputies are assembling round their majesties.
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  Speaker 1: The consternation will, with sobs and confusion, settle down gradually
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  Speaker 1: into plan and counsel better or worse. But glance now
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  Speaker 1: for a moment from the royal windows. A roaring sea
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  Speaker 1: of human heads inundating both courts, billowing against all passages, menatic, women, infuriated,
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  Speaker 1: men mad with revenge, with love of mischief, love of plunder.
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  Speaker 1: Rascality has slipped its muzzle, and now bays three th
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  Speaker 1: roted like the dog of Erebus. Fourteen bodyguards are wounded, too, massacred,
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  Speaker 1: and as we saw beheaded udin asking was it worth
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  Speaker 1: while to come so far for two aplastachutes and Varignye,
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  Speaker 1: their fate surely were sad whlled down so suddenly to
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  Speaker 1: the abyss, as men are suddenly from the wide thunder
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  Speaker 1: of the mountain avalanche awakened not by them, awakened far
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  Speaker 1: off by others. When the chateau clock last struck, they
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  Speaker 1: two were pacing languid with poised musketoon, anxious mainly that
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  Speaker 1: the next hour would strike. It has struck to them inaudible,
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  Speaker 1: their trunks line mangled, their heads, parade on pikes twelve
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  Speaker 1: feet long through the streets of Versailles and shell About
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  Speaker 1: noon reached. The barriers of Paris are too ghastly contradiction
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  Speaker 1: to the large, comfortable placards that have been posted there.
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  Speaker 1: The other captive bodyguard is still circling the corpse of
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  Speaker 1: Jerome amid Indian war, bloody tile beard with tucked sleeves
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  Speaker 1: brandishing his bloody acts. When Gondron and the grenadiers come
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  Speaker 1: in sight, comrades, will you see a man massacred in
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  Speaker 1: cold blood off? Butchers answer they and the poor bodyguard
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  Speaker 1: is free. Busy runs gondrun, Busy runs, guards and captains,
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  Speaker 1: scouring at all corridors, dispersing rascality and robbery, sweeping the
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  Speaker 1: palace clear. The mangled carnage is removed, Jerome's body to
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  Speaker 1: the town hall for inquest. The fire of insurrection gets
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  Speaker 1: damped more and more into measurable, manageable heat. Transcendent things
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  Speaker 1: of all sorts, as in the general outbursts of multitudinous passion,
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  Speaker 1: are huddled together the ludicrous, snay, the ridiculous, with the horrible.
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  Speaker 1: Far over the billowy sea of heads may be seen
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  Speaker 1: rascality caprioling on horses from the royal stud the spoilers these,
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  Speaker 1: for patriotism is always infected so with a proportion of
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  Speaker 1: mere thief, thives and scoundrels. Gondrds snatched their prey from
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  Speaker 1: them in the chateau, whereupon they hurried to the stables
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  Speaker 1: and took horses there. But the generous Diomede steeds, according
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  Speaker 1: to Weber, disdained such scoundrel burden, and, flinging up their
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  Speaker 1: royal heels, did soon project most of it in parabolic
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  Speaker 1: curves to a distance amid peals of laughter, and were caught.
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  Speaker 1: Mounted National guards secured the rest. Now, too has witnessed
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  Speaker 1: the touching last flicker of etiquette, which sinks not here
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  Speaker 1: in the Sumerian world wreckage without a sign. As the
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  Speaker 1: house cricket might still chirp in the pealing of a
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  Speaker 1: trump of doom, monsieur said some master of ceremonies. One
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  Speaker 1: hope it might be Debra's ay. As Lafayette, in these
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  Speaker 1: fearful moments, was rushing towards the inner royal apartment. Monsieur
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  Speaker 1: Le rat vouzacur les grand entrees. Monsieur the King grants
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  Speaker 1: you the grand entries, not finding it convenient to refuse them.
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  Speaker 1: End of Book seven, Chapter ten,