CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT.
At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the preceding pages, he did a thing which, if the whole town was to be believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains infested with bandits.
In the country near D---- a man lived quite alone.

This man, we will state at once, was a former member of the Convention.

His name was G---- Member of the Convention, G---- was mentioned with a sort of horror in the little world of D---- A member of the Convention--can you imagine such a thing?
That existed from the time when people called each other thou, and when they said "citizen." This man was almost a monster.
He had not voted for the death of the king, but almost.

He was a quasi-regicide.

He had been a terrible man.