Chapter XVII. The Seventeenth and Last:
Cosi vince Goffredo!
"Gerusal. Lib." cant. XX. 44.
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Last chapter! Strap in, there's a lot of ground to cover!
The author goes back to not referencing the sex of the child. Even thou…
Chapter XVII. The Seventeenth and Last:
Cosi vince Goffredo!
"Gerusal. Lib." cant. XX. 44.
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Last chapter! Strap in, there's a lot of ground to cover!
The author goes back to not referencing the sex of the child. Even though he revealed in a previous chapter it's a girl. Probably he didn't intend to make that reveal, but it slipped through the editing process. Probably we were never meant to know the sex.
For some reason, it didn't immediately occur to me that the Italian woman there near the end of the chapter shouting about Clarence was Fillide going on about Glydon. The book rarely refers to Glyndon by his first name, so hearing it out of nowhere, his role in the story having concluded several chapters prior, it just didn't immediately strike me what was going on with that bit. Obviously I did finally figure it out, just took a few moments.
You can just imagine Nicot screaming like a hysterical little girl when his turn came... LOL! It's horrific what was being done, yes, but however it happens, when your time does finally come, you should do your best to meet your end with dignity.
The picture used is "Robespierre going to the guillotine", oil on canvas by Alfred Mouillard, 1884.
Robespierre is the one with his head wrapped up. For having taken a bullet to the head (the author here suggests attempted suicide, others suggest he might have been shot by Charles-André Meda (one of the officers occupying the Hôtel de Ville), the record is unfortunately unclear), it shattered his jaw. The good news (for him) is, he didn't have to suffer the pain and bother of the broken jaw for very long! D:
I thought about using the depiction of Robespierre's beheading, but wasn't sure how Youtube would handle it. Sure, it's a famous and important historical painting, but Youtube doesn't always care such things. So I decided not to risk it and went with this instead.
To follow along: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2664/2664-h/2664-h.htm#link2HCH0081
