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III.

At the Bar of the Assembly.

"All hearts were open, every tongue was loud
With amity and glee; we bore a name
Honoured in France—the name of Englishman,
And hospitably did they give us hail,
As their forerunners in a glorious course."
—WORDSWORTH, The Prelude.