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Rh manded the father, with gathering indignation and astonishment, while Madeline stood in bewilderment looking at the three men, each of whose faces betrayed a different emotion.

"Never, we join the People against a tyrant!"

"Give me your hand, lad; I should have known you were no traitor to the cause of liberty."

At these sentiments of the father the doctor's eyes flashed, and his dark-featured face clouded with wrinkles.

"Do not look so, Madeline," said the young man, trying to comfort the girl; but with poor success, for his own heart was heavy. "It will all be ended soon." He took her arm, and led her into the garden, but she could not restrain the tears that ran down her face.

"At last the People have come to their senses," said the father to the doctor. "France must be rid of this monster. It is now fifteen years since Waterloo. And during this time what have we had? Nothing but misrule and conspiracy! What does this mean? It means that France must down with monarchy and