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that each might be allotted to his ultimate destination.
A shout of indignation answered him.
"
No one! No one will give his name," said General Oudinot.
Gustave de Beaumont added,--
"
We all bear the same name: Representatives of the People."
The Commissary saluted them and went away.
After two hours he came back. He was accompanied this time by the Chief
of the Ushers of the Assembly, a man named Duponceau, a species of
arrogant fellow with a red face and white hair, who on grand days
strutted at the foot of the Tribune with a silvered collar, a chain over
his stomach, and a sword between his legs.
The Commissary said to Duponceau,--"Do your duty."
What the Commissary meant, and what Duponceau understood by this word
duty, was that the Usher should denounce the Legislators. Like the
lackey who betrays his masters.
It was done in this manner.
This Duponceau dared to look in the faces of the Representatives by
turn, and he named them one after the other to a policeman, who took
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