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Gaston was inclined to thank the lieutenant of police, but he refrained. It might appear as though he had been afraid. He took his hat and coat, and returned to the Bastille as he had come.
"They did not like to put a man of high birth to the torture," thought he; "they will try me and condemn me to death."