This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...and I had been playing " Piquet." We were only two, but the four lights flickered in their bottles. La Marquise de Kercy had been musing. Suddenly she looked up. Her eyes were full of an inhuman mockery. "The candles!" she said, with a little laugh. "We are no longer using them. To save my pocket, Fran?ois!" ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...and I had been playing " Piquet." We were only two, but the four lights flickered in their bottles. La Marquise de Kercy had been musing. Suddenly she looked up. Her eyes were full of an inhuman mockery. "The candles!" she said, with a little laugh. "We are no longer using them. To save my pocket, Fran?ois!" Pom// a candle went out--another, another, another; between each the fraction of time occupied by something unseen moving round systematically. I started to my feet with a suppressed cry. One or two sitting near us complained of this churlish economy of wax. They imagined I was the culprit. "Madame!" I muttered. "Look! she is indisposed!" Her face was white and dreadful, like a skull. Hearing my voice she sat up. "So! He has been guillotined!" she said. She articulated with difficulty, swallowing and panting without stop. "M. Thibaut, it is true, then, they say! But it was he made me kill the child. He has more need to forget than I. Is it not appalling? If I tell them now how I have learnt to fear, they will surely spare me. I cannot subscribe to their doctrines--that Club of the Cordeliers. If I tell them so--Danton being gone" Her voice tailed off into a hurry of pitiful sobs and cries. I welcomed the entrance of Cabochon with his list. Her name was first on it. As we stood arisen, dreading some hideous scene, she fell silent quite suddenly, got to her feet, and walked to the door with a face of stone. 'Death is an interruption.' 'Ma demeure sera bientot le neant.' Which could one hope for her, pondering only that delirious outcry from her lips? Possibly, indeed, she had been mad from first to last. I had time to collect my thoughts, for--from whatever cause--Citizen...
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