Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-08-19
MISCELLANY Y.
Fr0siIle,
A SKETCH OF FEARFUL TIMES.
BY w. d. WADE.

During one of those periods OF revolu-
ton to which France has so frequently
been subject, and which have furnished the
pages of her history with innumerahle
scenes of horror and devastation-when
public and general execrations has sated its
furious cravings for blood en- masse, and
private hate has had the power 10 immo-
late individual victims on the altar of Jus
tice(O-the following incidents are assum-
ed to have occurred.
A deep laid plot fer overturning the
then existing government flor the time
popular) had been partially discovered, and
solitary wretch-an instrument Of un-
known canspirators-ha been arrested in
the act ,f assassination of one of the heads
Of the ministerial party. He effected his
fatal purpose, but he is in Jail, with no
prospect before him of escape from the
thirsty guillotine.
Charles Lavoisier, as we may name the
( bold bad man, who now found himself in
this hopeless situation, had long been under
the ewes of the Police as a desperate char
acter, although he had hitherto escaped
their langS.
Resigning himself TO his fate, he resolv-
ed to die as he had lived, impenitent and
undaunted-to enjoy the little time he
had 10 exist, by banishing fear or remorse.
In this reckless frame was Lavoisiei
when female was ushcrel into the dismal
cell.-With noisy grief she flung herself
upon his neck and lamented the fate of hel
"cher anaii," 'her dear Charles
The rough man-although touched by
this uurespected display of tenderness, il
one whom he had once loved well, an'
whom he found at this awful crisis of hi
life 10 be the Only being who seemed t
care for him,-reproved her for thus un
manning him, and that in presence of tn
jailor
"You will not have the heart to den.
me the privilege of taking a last meal will
him. | am sure" sail the female, with in
+ sinuating manner, to the turnkey, See
:; here is Napoleon-get US dinner OF tn
) best. and keep what change is over t
d drink our healths."
Is The man understood what was NEAR
I'd and withdrew saying, "Of course, now b
IN is condemned, he may have anything h
It. likes, (and can pay tor) and am not
= fellow so hardhearted as TO deny prett
woman last farewell"
Clutching the gold piece. that made IN
fIinty official thus good natured, he locke
$ the door and departed on his mission
@This is kind of you, dear Frosne.
come and see me; am ashamed to thin
d. how little deserve i"
"Oh never mind the past, you are alway
wild-but / know now how much you nav
loved me, and have come to prove
/! YOU il has not been lost on me. We far
- sian Griset,es have hearts that can love
it, hate fercely"
pS % $50 know full well! Was IT not
he crafty the malice of your rival La oe'
or Csphise' that behaved 50 shameiuily al
ss *. cruelty to you last SUMNER said Lave
on, sier. ;, /:
GO. pe ..Was it so?" enquired the girl with
sh. diqnant animation YES, truly, so 1t was
RUs IO% continued Lavoisier, not noticing, under
own emotion, the sudden flash OF the ey
: and the convulsive twitch of Frosines col
. nressed lips. "She it was who made IL
Infatuated fool that / was, strike you'
nroye that / no longer cared for you, e
ow she believed that really loved her! NJ
or she cares not for my fate, and yo'i cor
/. here to comfort me p
Thus expressing himself Charles is"'