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of the gallows that would turn to water and quench it, no

functionary, by any stretch of mathematics, was able to calculate

successfully.

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Chapter XXX

DRAWN TO THE LOADSTONE ROCK

n such risings of fire and risings of seathe firm earth shaken

by the rushes of an angry ocean which had now no ebb, but

was always on the flow, higher and higher, to the terror and

wonder of the beholders on the shorethree years of tempest

were consumed. Three more birthdays of little Lucie had been

woven by the golden thread into the peaceful tissue of the life of

her home.

Many a night and many a day had its inmates listened to the

echoes in the corner, with hearts that failed them when they heard

the thronging feet. For, the footsteps had become to their minds as

the footsteps of a people, tumultuous under a red flag and with

their country declared in danger, changed into wild beasts, by

terrible enchantment long persisted in.

Monseigneur, as a class, had dissociated himself from the

phenomenon of his not being appreciated: of his being so little

wanted in France, as to incur considerable danger of receiving his

dismissal from it, and this life together. Like the fabled rustic who

raised the Devil with infinite pains, and was so terrified at the

sight of