Taking the Bastile
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Dumas Alexandre. Taking the Bastile
CHAPTER I. THE SON OF GILBERT
CHAPTER II. ANGE PITOU
CHAPTER III. A REVOLUTIONARY FARMER
CHAPTER IV. LONG LEGS ARE GOOD FOR RUNNING. IF NOT FOR DANCING
CHAPTER V. WHY THE POLICE AGENT CAME WITH THE CONSTABLES
CHAPTER VI. ON THE ROAD
CHAPTER VII. THE FIRST BLOOD
CHAPTER VIII. PITOU DISCOVERS HE IS BRAVE
CHAPTER IX "TO THE BASTILE!"
CHAPTER X. BLOWING HOT AND COLD
CHAPTER XI. THE PRISON GOVERNOR
CHAPTER XII. STORMING THE BASTILE
CHAPTER XIII. DOWN IN THE DUNGEONS
CHAPTER XIV. THE TRIANGLE OF LIBERTY
CHAPTER XV. THE YOUNG VISIONARY
CHAPTER XVI. THE PHYSICIAN FOR THE STATE
CHAPTER XVII. THE COUNTESS OF CHARNY
CHAPTER XVIII. THE QUEEN AT BAY
CHAPTER XIX. THE QUEEN'S FAVORITE
CHAPTER XX. THE TRIO OF LOVE
CHAPTER XXI. THE QUEEN AND HER MASTER
CHAPTER XXII. THE PRIVATE COUNCIL
CHAPTER XXIII. WHY THE QUEEN WAITED
CHAPTER XXIV. THE ARMY OF WOMEN
CHAPTER XXV. THE NIGHT OF HORRORS
CHAPTER XXVI. BILLET'S SORROW
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Ange was too young to feel the whole extent of his loss: but he divined that the angel of the hearth had vanished: and when the body was taken to the churchyard and interred, he sat down by the grave and replied to all pleadings for him to come away by saying that Mamma Madeline was there, that he never had left her and he would stay beside her now.
It was there that Dr. Gilbert, for Ange Pitou's future guardian was a physician, found him when he hastened to Haramont on receiving the dying mother's appeal.
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Wire was cheaper in the town than at the village so that Ange got material for twenty-four snares for three cents; he brought the odd copper to his aunt who was touched by this honesty. For an instant she felt like giving him the cent but unfortunately for Ange, it had been flattened by a hammer and might be passed in the dusk for a twosous piece. She thought it wicked to squander a piece that might bring a hundred per cent, and she popped it into her pouch.
Pitou made the snares and in the morning asked mysteriously for a bag. In it she put the bread and cheese for his meals, and away he went to his hunting ground.
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