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Excerpt from Victoire: A Novel
Tears, which in such a moment betrayed no weakness, bedewed the faces of his Wife and' children. Then followed silence, dread as that in which we watch a air of beloved eyes close in death. At last he murmure It is past! The bitterest drop is tasted; adieu! My idols pensez d moi, adieu He lifted his plumed hat and was gone.
As the door closed, my mother made no sound. The time for tears had passed. Drawing both of her children to her heart, she hastened to a window, and there, amid deepening darkness, looked down upon that most dire of all sights, a people revelling in blood. The great clocks of the city struck the last hour of night still she stood in the same spot, her forehead pressed against the cold window-pane, with her children strained to her heart. The day dawned, and she had not stirred, although we, but half conscious of the woe Which hung over us, in our childish weariness had fallen asleep.
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