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In the Reign of Terror

CHAPTER III
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I am going to have him stuffed and set up as a trophy.

He shall stand over the fireplace in the hall, and long after we have all mouldered to dust our descendants will point to it proudly, telling how a lad of their race, with another his own age, slew the demon wolf of Burgundy." Ernest was confined to his bed for nearly a month, and during this time Harry often went long rides and walks by himself.

In the evening the marquis frequently talked with him over the situation of the country and compared the events which had taken place with the struggle of the English parliament with the king.
"There was one point of difference between the two cases," he said one evening.

"In England the people had already great power in the state.

The parliament had always been a check upon the royal authority; and it was because the king tried to overrule parliament that the trouble came about.


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