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Rh "Why, my dear boy, when a man has been proscribed by the Mountain, has escaped from Paris in a hay-cart, been hunted in the landes of Bordeaux by M. Robespierre's blood-hounds, he becomes accustomed to

most things. But, go on; what about the club in the Rue Saint-Jacques?"

"Why, they induced General Quesnel to go there, and General Quesnel, who quitted his own house at nine o'clock in the evening, was found the next day in the Seine."