. Ninety-three . MARIE ANTOINETTE. NIXUTY- THREE. 205 said—?^Banishment! Let this liriiif/ r/o wander ainonçi the thrones.^Zangiaeomi, who said—??(onjineiiiei/t. Let ks hrep Capet alive as a scare-erowP Cliaillon, who said—?Let hiin live. 1 do not wish to make a deadttiaii of )rho)ii Home will ni<il;c a While these sentences fell from those severe lips and dispersedthemselves one after another into history, women in low-necked dressesand decorated with gems sat in the tribunes, list in hand, connting thevoices and i)rickiiig carh vote witli a ]iin. Wliere tragedy entered, h
. Ninety-three . MARIE ANTOINETTE. NIXUTY- THREE. 205 said—?^Banishment! Let this liriiif/ r/o wander ainonçi the thrones.^Zangiaeomi, who said—??(onjineiiiei/t. Let ks hrep Capet alive as a scare-erowP Cliaillon, who said—?Let hiin live. 1 do not wish to make a deadttiaii of )rho)ii Home will ni<il;c a While these sentences fell from those severe lips and dispersedthemselves one after another into history, women in low-necked dressesand decorated with gems sat in the tribunes, list in hand, connting thevoices and i)rickiiig carh vote witli a ]iin. Wliere tragedy entered, horror and pity remain. To see the Convention, no matter at what period of its reign, wasto see anew the trial of the last Capet. The legend of the 21st of Janu- •20Q XIXETY-THEEE. aiy seemed miugied with all its acts; the foniiidable Assembly was fullof those fatal breaths which l>kw upon the (jld torch of mouarchy, thathad Imrned for eighteen centuries, aud extiuguished it. The decisivetrials of all kings in that judgment pronounced upon one king was likethe point of departiu-e in the great war made against the Past. What-ever might be the sitting of the Convention at which one was present,the shadow of Louis scaffold was seen thiust forward within recounted to one another the resignation
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