Page 126 - Jack's victory and other stories about dogs

THE FAITHFUL ADHERENT.

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Il§ f|| FEW days before the overthrow of

Robespierre a revolutionary tribunal had

j r condemned Mona; R------, an ancient magis­
t r a l and a niost estimable man, on a pretence of

find!ng hitn. guilty o£ a coiispivacy. Mons R -—

had a water-dog at that time, about twelve

year.s old, which bad been brought up by him,

and had scarcely ever (pitted Ins side. M oni
E—— was cast into prison^ and in the silence of

a living tomb he was left to
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“ piue in thought,1*

under the iron scourge of the tyrant, who, if he

extended life to those whom his wantonness had

proscribed, oven until death became a prayer, it