The Memoirs of the Baroness Cecile De Courtot, Lady-in-Waiting to the Princess De Lamballe, Princess of Savoy-Carignan;
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Si quelqu'air de tristesse obscurcit mon visage. Lorsqu'un crayon savant dessinait cet image, J'attendais I'echafaud et je pensais a vous.' " How many instances of generosity and noble self-sacri- fice did I not witness during those days! Married couples, parents, children had no thottght but ,*^ console and support CECILE'S IMPRISONMENT. '}^ one another ; and now and then it would happen that at the call of the executioner a son would answer for a father, a friend for a friend, and go to the s...caffold in his stead. But those that remained lived on unconcernedly. Our under- ground prison seemed almost Hke a tranquil island round which the breakers foamed and raged. The only thing that came to disturb our even calm was the executioner's hand that would snatch away one or other out of the friendly circle to his death. " It was like another world down here. Up above, all the qualities that go to adorn life — grace and courtesy, reverence and polished manners — were rigorously tabooed; they had fled for refuge to these dungeons, these ante-chambers to the Halls of Death.
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