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afternooTJ, the best and purest young ladies of the village will assejnble in your 

 cell and sing hymns. This will show that assassination is respectable. Then 

 you will write a touching letter, in which you will forgive all those recent 

 Browns. This will excite the public admiration. No public can withstand 

 magnanimity. Next, they wUl take you to the scaffold, with great Mat, at the 

 head of an imposing procession composed of clergymen, ofijcials, citizens gen-, 

 erally, and young ladies walking pensively two and two, and bearing bouquets 



and immortelles. You will mount the scaffold, and while the great concourse 

 stand uncovered in your presence, you will read your sappy little speech which 

 the minister has written for you. And then, in the midst of a grand and impres- 

 sive silence, they will swing you into per Paradise, my son. There will not 



be a dry eye on the ground. You will be a hero ! Not a rough there but will 

 envy you. Not a rough there but will resolve to emulate you. And next, a 

 great procession will follow you to the tomb — will weep over your remains — 



