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CHAPTER 64

She paused a little, drank some water and continued.

“There’s danger in the hour” she coughed as she began her’s.

“Exactly... Exactly why you should begin quick and not waste time.”

“"We hear," remarks the Rev. Dr. Channing, "of the horrors of the Revolution; but in this, as in other things, we recollect the effect, without thinking of the guiltier cause. The Revolution was, indeed, a scene of horror. But when I look back on the reigns which preceded it, and which made Paris almost one great play and gambling-house, and when I see altar and throne desecrated by a licentiousness unsurpassed in any former age, I look on scenes as shocking to the calm and searching eye of reason and virtue as the 10th of August and the massacre of September. Bloodshed is indeed a terrible spectacle, but there are other things almost as fearful as blood.

"There are crimes which do not make us shout and turn pale like the guillotine, b

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