In the Name of Liberty

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Owen Johnson. In the Name of Liberty

In the Name of Liberty

Table of Contents

I. IN SEARCH OF THE REVOLUTION

II. A RESCUE FROM ARISTOCRATS

III. CITOYENNE NICOLE

IV. BREWINGS OF THE STORM

V. THE TAKING OF THE TUILERIES

VI. THE HEART OF A WOMAN

VII. THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS

VIII. THE MOTHER OF LOUISON

IX. THE TURN OF JAVOGUES

X. A TRIUMPH OF INSTINCT

XI. THE MAN WITH THE LANTERN

XII. THE MASSACRE OF THE PRISONS

XIII. DOSSONVILLE IN PERIL

XIV. GOURSAC AS ACCUSER

XV. LOVE, LIFE, AND DEATH

PART II (One Year Later)

I. FAMINE

II. DOSSONVILLE EARNS A KISS

III. WAITING FOR BREAD

IV. SIMON LAJOIE

V. CRAMOISIN PLOTS AGAINST NICOLE

VI. BARABANT HESITATES

VII. THE MADNESS OF JEALOUSY

VIII. LA FÊTE DE LA RAISON

IX. AS DID CHARLOTTE CORDAY

X. UNRELENTING IN DEATH

XI. NICOLE FORGOES THE SACRIFICE

XII. THE FATHER OF LOUISON

XIII. DAUGHTER OF THE GUILLOTINE

XIV. THE LAST ON THE LIST

XV. THE FALL OF THE TERROR

EPILOGUE

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Owen Johnson

A Story of the Terror

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The air was still young, and in the skies the multifarious tints of the dawn had not quite faded as the burly sun bobbed up among the distant chimney-tops. She ensconced herself in the window, running her hands with indolent movements through the meshes as though reluctant to leave the flash and play of the sun amid its lusters. She was young and pretty, and she knew it, and, with a frank enjoyment, she let the long locks slip through her fingers or brought them caressingly against her cheek.

Though from her figure she could not have been more than eighteen, yet in the poise of her head and in the subtile smile, full of grace and piquancy, there showed the coquetry of the woman who plans to please the masculine eye.

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