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was only to tantalize them with the blessing of

murder, when he imagined he could more e f f e c t u ­
ally torture them with the curse of existence.

This faithful dog was with Mons. R------

when he was first seized, but was not suffered to
enter the prison, so he took refuge with a neigh­

bour of his late master. But that posterity may

judge clearly of the terror in which Frenchmen

existed at that period, it must be added that

this man received the poor animflfcL tremblingly
and iii secret, lest his humanity for the dog of

his friend should bring' himself to the scaffold.

Every day at the same hour the dog returned to

the prison* but was still refused admission. He,
however, uniformly passed some time there.

Such unremitting fidelity at last won even 011

the porter of the prison, and the dog was at last

allowed to enter. The joy of both master and
dog was great; it was difficult to separate

them; but the honest jailer, fearing for himself,

carried the latter out of prison. Next morning,

however, the dog came back, and once on each

day afterwards was regularly admitted by the