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566 "It remains then to make a good end; let that be the first expiation of your crimes."

Neither to such exhortations, nor to the earnest counsels of the excellent Abbe Beroud, Vicar of Bourg, who paid him many visits, did the unhappy wretch give any heed.

"I shall do nothing with him," said the good priest, mournfully. "The mind is too coarse and brutified. It is not with him as

lard availed himself to the utmost limit of human appetite. Beef, pork, cutlets, and especially puddings, disappeared under his efforts with a rapidity that struck with amazement the spectators of that gloomy feast. He seemed to consider the time too precious to be wasted in conversation, but nevertheless found opportunity now and then to address a word of comfort to his wife, whose sobs interrupted the repast.

"Patience, patience; you are fretting about with others, where darkness and light are at least mingled in the soul. Here it is one me, but it is a waste of grief; you see / don't profound obscurity." care. As for you, you have to remain twenty Nevertheless he did not relax his efforts; years in prison. Be careful of the little money I shall leave you. Take some wine now and and as Dumollard exercised his right of ap peal to the Court of Cassation, opportunity then. But mind! on your liberation, do not go back to Dagneux, where your family would was not wanting. On Friday evening, the 7th of March, the not welcome you; remain at Dijon. By the guillotine was taken from the vaults below by," he added, as if an important idea had struck him, " don't forget to reckon with the Palais de Justice, placed upon an im mense car, and transported to Montluel, Berthet; she owes you for so many days' whither a large detachment of Lancers had work; that will be seventeen francs, less already proceeded, to preserve order among five sous." It was half-past one in the morning when the immense multitudes that came flocking from every part of the country. At four the prisoner entered Chalamont, a mile or two short of Montluel; and here the crowd o'clock that same evening, the criminal re ceived intimation that he must die on the had become so dense as to create some diffi morrow. He turned deadly pale, but soon culty in passing. Yells and execrations re recovered his habitual indifference, and only sounded on every side. Some women forced replied that it was what he had expected. their way up to the vehicle, flashing their lanterns into the face of the criminal. The His confessor was then introduced, and re mained with him half an hour. About to Abbe Beroud warmly remonstrated, rebuk leave, he suggested to the condemned man ing their indecent curiosity, and exhorting that the time had arrived when, if ever, them to be satisfied with the act of justice about to be done. Thus through masses of he should exchange forgiveness and recon ciliation with his wife, offering at the same living beings, miles in length, the cortege time to obtain permission for his release approached Montluel. from irons. The scaffold had been erected during the Dumollard assented, and the interview night, in the widest piece of public ground, took place immediately, — the male prisoner — the Place Bourgeat, — and now stood remaining calm and unmoved as ever, the ready, in the centre of a perfect forest of woman deeply agitated. After this, the two bayonets and drawn sabres. Beyond the military square every visible inch, from sat down to partake of their last meal to gether, — an abundant supper, provided at ground to chimney-top, was packed with the cost of the good priest, who, though it living beings. Dumollard had alighted at the town-hall, was fast day, permitted them, " in the pres ent conjuncture of circumstances," to eat and was warming himself comfortably at the what they pleased. Of this license Dumol- fire in the council-chamber. A magistrate