[El Dorado by Baroness Orczy]@TWC D-Link bookEl Dorado CHAPTER XVI 16/19
Belhomme, Louise, aged sixty.
Discharged. And just below, the other entry: 583.
Lange, Jeanne, aged twenty, actress.
Square du Roule No.5.
Suspected of harbouring traitors and ci-devants. Transferred 29th Nivose to the Temple, cell 29. He saw nothing more, for suddenly it seemed to him as if some one held a vivid scarlet veil in front of his eyes, whilst a hundred claw-like hands were tearing at his heart and at his throat. "Clear out now! it is my turn--what? Are you going to stand there all night ?" A rough voice seemed to be speaking these words; rough hands apparently were pushing him out of the way, and some one snatched the candle out of his hand; but nothing was real.
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