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small narrow chamber in which Robespierre was for one day, hut where he never slept brought there ut, ei«L?hl, tried at eleven, executed at four. This opens into at hir.«ro room, now the chapel, otiee the prison ot Mudanu* Kli/ahcth, and afterwards tin* place in which the <tin»ndisiM held their last dreadful banquet before execution, \\hen they santi£ the Marseillaise around the dead man on th«» tahlis suitl are said to have composed * Mourir p»»ur hi 1'atrie.1
vi'I\»-<luv Arthur and 1 went by rail to VtT.saUhvs aiul took a little carriage theiiet* to Port Royal The country was lovi»lv* the forest n»<l and golden with autumnal titun, In a wooded vaJley, with at ^.freen lawn winding ihr*iti^h it like a river, watered hy u little brook l(*t> are the rrmaiiiH of Port Uoyal, th«» farmh*>uso when* Haeine iiml Piiseiil lived and wrote, the dovecot and fountain of Mere An^-lique, the wins of the church, tin* cemetery and en IMS, ainl Mini Solit-mlt* * whi*re tin* IIUIIH salt in Huleiitn council uroumi a crucifix in the middle t»f the woods. In tin.* hcHwe in a eolleettcHi of old pictutvH of the e««h«lfritii'H ruu~ neeted with the plan*. Arthur, of emuw% peiipled tin* whole plaee in imagination ami doHcrijitiou with the li^uivK of the past* and insisted on utir * walking in pr«MTSHi«»tj* t«f tw*») down tin* rttinecl church.
u We went on to Dampirnv, H fine oltt ehfileiiii of tin* Due <le Luynen, with f^iwn flrivt*s antl iivrijiie«; iiiifl flint to Chovivusis wlit*re we climbed up the hill t«i the rtiiiietl with mufhicolatiul tmvrn* utid H wiilt* vlini tivrr tlw*
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