What in the world could this pretended merchant of coffee have to write to all these great notables about?
The other paper would explain, no doubt.

I laid the letters upon the shelf and I unfolded the paper which had been enclosed with them.

It did not take more than the opening sentence to convince me that the salt-marsh outside might prove to be a very much safer place than this accursed cottage.
These were the words which met my eyes:-- 'Fellow-citizens of France.

The deed of to-day has proved that, even in the midst of his troops, a tyrant is unable to escape the vengeance of an outraged people.

The committee of three, acting temporarily for the Republic, has awarded to Buonaparte the same fate which has already befallen Louis Capet.