I couldn’t put page 2 in but it says “he was standing staring at the bookcase... your bookcase. he said he thought he remembered a door there... wasn’t there a door there that used to go up to the loft? then he told me he wanted more money. twenty guilders more a week. (mr. van daan): Blackmail!

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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