‘I cannot,’ replied Grosket, coldly, ‘for it’s as true as there is a heaven above us!’
Rust made an effort to speak; his fingers worked convulsively, and he fell prostrate on the floor.
THE SACRIFICE.
‘One day during the bloody executions which took place at Lyons, a young girl rushed into the hall where the revolutionary tribunal was held, and throwing herself at the feet of the judges, said: ‘There remain to me of all my family only my brothers! Mother, father, sister—you have butchered all; and now you are going to condemn my brothers. Oh! in mercy ordain that I may ascend the scaffold with them!’ Her prayer was refused, and she threw herself into the Rhone and perished.’
Du Broca
The judges have met in the council-hall,
A strange and a motley pageant, all:
What seek they? to win for their land a name
The brightest and best in the lists of fame?