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. 1853 Excerpt: ...by this grammatical explanation, became less angry, and continued to walk about, listening to the murmur of the excited city, and repeating, with a diabolical laugh, "Capet will wear mourning for Marat!" On the 16th of July, the funeral of Marat took place with great pomp. Simon regretted that his duties in the tower ...
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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. 1853 Excerpt: ...by this grammatical explanation, became less angry, and continued to walk about, listening to the murmur of the excited city, and repeating, with a diabolical laugh, "Capet will wear mourning for Marat!" On the 16th of July, the funeral of Marat took place with great pomp. Simon regretted that his duties in the tower deprived him of being present on so solemn an occasion. His wife, however, was enabled to see all the display of the ceremony. When Simon thought of her seeing the body of Marat in state, and enjoying the consolation of following in the funeral procession, his envy was greatly excited. He kept walking about the whole day in his apartment, like a caged tiger. Although obliged, by his duties as a jailer, to keep at home, he did honor to the occasion by wearing his bonnet rouge with a cockade, and his tri-colored scarf. Some days afterward, news having arrived of the defeat of the republican army near Saumur, Simon came in, in a rage, which he vented upon the person of the unhappy prince. "It is your friends, you young villain, who are cutting our throats!" And he redoubled his blows. The poor child might well say, "It is not my fault." The pitiless jailer, however, took him Sorrow And Suffering. Ill by the hair, and nearly wrenched his head fromhis shoulders. The child smothered his complaints; big tears, however, rolled down his cheeks: but not a cry escaped him, lest it should be heard elsewhere in the tower, and reach his mother's ears. It was long since his former gayety had left him, and that the roses of health had faded from his cheeks. His body suffered as much from weakness as his mind did from grief. He slept less than he used to. His moral condition was as yet innocent of all corruption. Simon made him go ...
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