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WHAT A CUT-OFF HEAD MAY COUNSEL. W HEN Gilbert appeared before the Queen, she uttered a scream, for his ruffles and part of his coat were torn and drops of blood stained his shirt. “I ask pardon for…
THE SMILE AND THE NOD. A S Cagliostro had said and Mirabeau surmised, the King had upset the scheme. Without much regret the Queen saw the constitutional platform fall which had wounded her pride. T…
THE ROYAL LOCKSMITH. A S the King had undertaken a very important piece of locksmith work, he sent his valet Hue to beg General Lafayette to come into his smithy. It was on the second floor above hi…
HAPPY FAMILY. O N the evening of this same day, about five, a scene passed in the third and top flat of a dirty old tumbledown house in Juiverie Street which we would like our readers to behold. The…
DOWN AMONG THE DEAD I T was nearly midnight when a man hesitatingly walked up to the iron gateway of St. Jean’s burying-ground, in Croix Blanche Street. As midnight boomed, he saw a spectre cross th…
GAMAIN PROVES HE IS THE MASTER. T HE reader will not be much surprised, after the permission Lafayette gave for the King to have his locksmith call to relieve him of a trouble in lockmaking, that Ga…
THE FRIEND OF THE FALLEN. A T eight that same evening, a workingman, holding his hand to his waistcoat pocket as though it contained money in larger quantity than usual, staggered out of the Tuileri…
THE FIRST GUILLOTINE. O N Christmas Eve, a party was given at the Princess Lamballe’s, which the Queen’s presiding over made it really her own reception. Isidore Charny had returned from Italy that …
UNDER THE WINDOW. O N the surface all was calm and almost smiling on the Billet Farm. As before, Billet, on his strong horse, trotted all over the land keeping his hands up to the mark. But a sharp …
