Author: Charles Reade
Year: 1857
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Excerpt from The Double Marriage, or White Lies
The lower orders rose upon their oppressors, and soon showed themselves far blacker specimens of the same breed. Law, religion, humanity, and common sense hid their faces; innocent blood flowed in a stream, and terror reigned. To Monsieur de Beaurepaire these Republicans - murderers of women, children, and kings - seemed the most horrible monsters nature had ever produced; he put on black, and retired from society; he felled timber, and raised large sums of money upon his estate. And one day he mounted his charger, and-disappeared from the chateau.
Three months after this, a cavalier, dusty and pale, rode into the courtyard of Beaurepaire, and asked to see the baroness. She came to him: he hung his head and held her out a letter.
It contained a few sad words from Monsieur de Laroche jaquelin. The baron had just fallen in La Vendee, fighting for the Crown.
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