[The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibanez]@TWC D-Link bookThe Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse CHAPTER I 66/106
Five o'clock! She might come now at any minute! He thought that he recognized her afar off in a lady who was passing through the grating by the rue Pasquier.
She seemed to him a little different, but it occurred to him that possibly the Summer fashions might have altered her appearance.
But soon he saw that he had made a mistake.
She was not alone, another lady was with her.
They were perhaps English or North American women who worshipped the memory of Marie Antoinette and wished to visit the Chapelle Expiatoire, the old tomb of the executed queen. Julio watched them as they climbed the flights of steps and crossed the interior patio in which were interred the eight hundred Swiss soldiers killed in the attack of the Tenth of August, with other victims of revolutionary fury. Disgusted at his error, he continued his tramp.
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