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"What, the Marquis and Mademoiselle and all?" said Chapeau.
"No, not the Marquis and Mademoiselle; they were to be beheaded after
us, but the rest of us were all taken out--the muskets loaded--the men
to shoot us all in a line."
"Oh! Chapeau, it was so awfully dreadful," said the cook. "If I live a
thousand years I shall never get over this night,"
"Oh, yes! most dreadfully awful," said the laundress. "I was carried in
from the spot, and have not been able to move a limb since. I doubt I
never shall put a foot to the ground again."
"The muskets were to their shoulders," continued Momont. "We heard them
cocked: each man took deliberate aim; the women here were screeching and
screaming."
"Of course we were," said the confidential maid. "Hadn't we good cause
to scream, waiting to be killed every minute. I'm sure I wonder I ever
came to my senses again. I declare when they came to pick me up, I
thought it was all over, and that I'd been shot already."
"Well, I don't think anybody heard me scream," said Momont: "but there's
a difference I know between a man and a woman.


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