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In the Reign of Terror

CHAPTER VIII
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"It is terrible! My husband was telling me what he saw; and a neighbour came in just now and said it was the same thing at all the other prisons.

The priest, too--our priest at the little church at the corner of the street, where I used to go in every morning to pray on my way to market--he was dragged away ten days ago to the Carmelites, and now he is a saint in heaven.

How is it, sir, that God allows such things to be ?" "We cannot tell," Harry said sadly.

"As for myself, I can hardly believe it, though I saw it.

They say there are over four thousand people in the prisons, and they will all be murdered.


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