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The Battle Of The Strong
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CHAPTER VIII
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Behold a Caliban now for her paramour! "Weep with me, for France despoils me.

One by one my friends have fallen beneath the axe.

Of my four sons but one remains.

Henri was stabbed by Danton's ruffians at the Hotel de Ville; Gaston fought and died with the Swiss Guard, whose hacked and severed limbs were broiled and eaten in the streets by these monsters who mutilate the land.

Isidore, the youngest, defied a hundred of Robespierre's cowards on the steps of the Assembly, and was torn to pieces by the mob.


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