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"Unstable as water thou shalt not excel!" he "

Meanwhile Tignonville, after putting a hundred yards between hied into the first dark entry which presented itself

Hurriedly, and with a frowning face, he cut off his left sleeve fro his linen, put him in

possession of the white sleeve which he had once involuntarily donned,

and once discarded The white cross on the cap he could not assume, for

he was bareheaded But he had little doubt that the sleeve would

suffice, and with a bold deain the Rue Ferronerie

Excited groups andering up and down the street, and, fearing to

traverse its crowded narrows, he went by lanes parallel with it as far as

the Rue St Denis, which he crossed Everywhere he saw houses gutted and

doors burst in, and traces of a cruelty and a fanaticism almost

incredible Near the Rue des Loed on the hook of a cobbler's shutter A little farther on

in the sa woth and beauty of her hair To obtain her

bracelets, her captors had cut off her hands; afterwards--but God knows

how long afterwards--a passer-by, more pitiful than his fellows, had put

her out of her ed in her

body

M de Tignonville shuddered at the sight, and at others like it He