M. Malesherbes."

Oh, heavens!" said E-oucher : "it appears as if his vengeance were levelled solely against the Academy ; he has just made a most horrible execution of tlie whole of it. i^ow tell me my fate in the name of mercy ! ' '
" You will die also on the scaftbld."
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" Oh !" it was tiniversaily exclaimed, "he has sworn to exterminate us all."
" Xo, it is not I who have sworn it."
" Are we then to be subjugated by Turks and Tartars ?"
" By no means. I have already told you, that you will then be governed by philosophy and reason alone. Those who will treat you as L have described, will, all of them, be- philosophers : you will be continually uttering the same phrases that you have been repeating for the last hour, will deliver aJl your maxims, and will quote, as you have done, Diderot and the Maid of Orleans."
" Oh," it was whispered, "the man is out of his senses ;" for during the whole of the conversation his countenance never underwent the least change.
" Oh, no," said another, " you must perceive that he is laughing at us ; for he always blends the marvellous with his pleasantries."
"Yes," answered Chamfort, " the marvellous with him is never enlivened with gaiety. He always looks as if he were going to be hanged. But when will this happen ?"
" Six years will not have passed, before all that I have told you shall be accomplished."
" Here, indeed, are plenty of miracles," (it was myself, says