The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
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An achievement of truth!
And still that sigh for more! But for the moment,--a few seconds only,--Paris looked round her mighty self, and thought things over! The man-eating tiger for the space of a sigh licked his powerful jaws and pondered! Something new!--something wonderful! We have had a new Constitution, a new Justice, new Laws, a new Almanack! What next? Why, obviously!--How comes it that great, intellectual, aesthetic Paris never thought of such a wonderful thing before? A new religion! Christianity is old and obsolete, priests are aristocrats, wealthy oppressors of the People, the Church but another form of wanton tyranny. Let us by all means have a new religion. Already something has been done to destroy the old! To destroy! always to destroy! Churches have been ransacked, altars spoliated, |
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