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AN EPISODE UNDER THE TERROR 1 AN EPISODE UNDER THE TERROR BY HONORE DE BALZAC 更多好书请点击 www.uus8.org AN EPISODE UNDER THE TERROR 2 DEDICATION To Monsieur Guyonnet-Merville. Is it not a necessity to explain to a public curious to know everything, how I came to be sufficiently learned in the law to carry on the business of my little world? And in so doing, am I not bound to put on record the memory of the amiable and intelligent man who, meeting the Scribe (another clerk-amateur) at a ball, said, "Just give the office a turn; there is work for you there, I assure you"? But do you need this public testimony to feel assured of the affection of the writer? DE BALZAC. 更多好书请点击 www.uus8.org AN EPISODE UNDER THE TERROR 3 AN EPISODE UNDER THE TERROR On the 22nd of January, 1793, towards eight o'clock in the evening, an old lady came down the steep street that comes to an end opposite the Church of Saint Laurent in the Faubourg Saint Martin. It had snowed so heavily all day long that the lady's footsteps were scarcely audible; the streets were deserted, and a feeling of dread, not unnatural amid the silence, was furt......