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The History of a Crime

CHAPTER XIV
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At the same time there were added to the two hundred and twenty MM.

Eugene Sue, Benoist (du Rhone), Fayolle, Chanay, Toupet des Vignes, Radoubt-Lafosse, Arbey, and Teillard-Laterisse, who up to that time had been detained in the new Palace of Foreign Affairs.
Towards eight o'clock in the evening, when dinner was over, the restrictions were a little relaxed, and the intermediate space between the door and the barred gate of the barracks began to be littered with carpet bags and articles of toilet sent by the families of the imprisoned Representatives.
The Representatives were summoned by their names.

Each went down in turn, and briskly remounted with his cloak, his coverlet, or his foot-warmer.

A few ladies succeeded in making their way to their husbands.

M.M.


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