第 45 节
作者:朝令夕改      更新:2021-02-21 16:09      字数:677
  allowed a dozen men to have gone to the guillotine that his own
  worthless life might have been spared。
  〃But he was your betrothed!〃 La Boulaye protested。
  〃True!〃 she made answer;  〃but I had to choose between the man it
  had been arranged I should marry and the man I lowed。〃  A flush
  crimsoned her cheek; and her voice sank almost to a whisper。  〃And
  to save the man I love I have delivered up Ombreval。〃
  〃Suzanne 〃
  The name burst from his lips in a shout of wonder and of joy
  ineffable。  In a stride he seemed to cover the distance between
  them; and he caught her to him as the door slammed on the
  discreetly departing Robespierre。
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