On Charon’s Boat, ah! never to return.
Francis’s Horace.
A TALE OF THE MONTH OF
FLORÉAL IN THE YEAR II
TO MADEMOISELLE JEANNE CANTEL
A TALE OF THE MONTH OF
FLORÉAL IN THE YEAR II
I
The turnkey had shut the door of the house of detention upon her who was formerly known as the Comtesse Fanny d’Avernay, whose arrest is described in the gaol register as a step taken “in the interests of public safety,” though her actual crime was that she had given shelter to enemies of the Government.