monseigneur gone, and the three strong men absolving themselves from the sin of having drawn his high wages, by being more than ready and willing to cut his throat on the altar of the dawning republic one and indivisible of liberty, equality, fraternity, or death, monseigneur's house had been first sequestrated, and then confiscated. for, all things moved so fast, and decree followed decree with that fierce precipitation, that now upon the third night of the autumn month of september, patriot emissaries of the law were in possession of monseigneur's house, and had marked it with the tri-colour, and were drinking brandy in its state apartments.