It was a hunt of two wretched Swiss guardsmen seeking blindly to escape. And they were run to earth in a house in the neighbourhood, and there cruelly done to death by that demoniac mob. The thing accomplished, the hunters, male and female, forming into a battalion, came swinging down the Rue du Paradis, chanting the song of Marseilles -a song new to Paris in those days:
Allons, enfants de la patrie!
Le jour de gloire est arrive
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L'etendard sanglant est leve.
Nearer it came, raucously bawled by some hundreds of voices, a dread sound that had come so suddenly to displace at least temporarily the merry, trivial air of the "Ca ira!" which hitherto had been the revolutionary carillon.
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Bitter laughter shook them
Representatives of every class
Coldly now he returned
He left it to
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He had exaggerated nothing
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In her left hand
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I said from the
And how would you
Nothing M le Marquis
Forgive me if you
To meet them there
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But I did not
And to day he
And so one fine
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And so the good
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To reveal his secret
Be that as it
He had whitened his
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