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Zanoni

CHAPTER 7
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The woman whom he loves--Teresa de Fontenai--who lies in prison, still continues to correspond with him; to urge him to save her by thy destruction: this my listeners overheard.

His servant is the messenger between the prisoner and himself." "So! The servant shall be seized in the open streets of Paris.

The Reign of Terror is not over yet.

With the letters found on him, if such their context, I will pluck Tallien from his benches in the Convention." Robespierre rose, and after walking a few moments to and fro the room in thought, opened the door and summoned one of the Jacobins without.
To him he gave his orders for the watch and arrest of Tallien's servant, and then threw himself again into his chair.

As the Jacobin departed, Guerin whispered,-- "Is not that the Citizen Aristides ?" "Yes; a faithful fellow, if he would wash himself, and not swear so much." "Didst thou not guillotine his brother ?" "But Aristides denounced him." "Nevertheless, are such men safe about thy person ?" "Humph! that is true." And Robespierre, drawing out his pocketbook, wrote a memorandum in it, replaced it in his vest, and resumed,-- "What else of Tallien ?" "Nothing more.


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