[Zanoni by Edward Bulwer Lytton]@TWC D-Link bookZanoni CHAPTER 7 6/17
He and Legendre, with the unknown, walked to the Jardin Egalite, and there parted.
I saw Tallien to his house.
But I have other news.
Thou badest me watch for those who threaten thee in secret letters." "Guerin! hast thou detected them? Hast thou--hast thou--" And the tyrant, as he spoke, opened and shut both his hands, as if already grasping the lives of the writers, and one of those convulsive grimaces that seemed like an epileptic affection, to which he was subject, distorted his features. "Citizen, I think I have found one.
Thou must know that amongst those most disaffected is the painter Nicot." "Stay, stay!" said Robespierre, opening a manuscript book, bound in red morocco (for Robespierre was neat and precise, even in his death-lists), and turning to an alphabetical index,--"Nicot!--I have him,--atheist, sans-culotte (I hate slovens), friend of Hebert! Aha! N.B .-- Rene Dumas knows of his early career and crimes.
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