cles like this in the Sea of Fire. Desolate, as ashes,
as gases, shall they wander in the wind. Higher, higher yet flames the
Fire-Sea; crackling with new dislocated timber; hissing with leather
and prunella. The metal Images are molten; the marble Images become
mortar-lime; the stone Mountains sulkily explode. RESPECTABILITY, with
all her collected Gigs inflamed for funeral pyre, wailing, leaves the
earth: not to return save under new Avatar. Imposture, how it burns,
through generations: how it is burnt up; for a time. The World is black
ashes; which, ah, when will they grow green? The Images all run into
amorphous Corinthian brass; all Dwellings of men destroyed; the very
mountains peeled and riven, the valleys black and dead: it is an empty
World! Wo to them that shall be born then!--A King, a Queen (ah
me!) were hurled in; did rustle once; flew aloft, crackling, like
paper-scroll. Iscariot Egalite was hurled in; thou grim De Launay, with
thy grim Bastille; whole kindreds and peoples; five millions of mutually
destroying Men. For it is the End of the Dominion of IMPOSTURE (which
is Darkness and opaque Firedamp); and the burning up, with unquenchable
fire, of all the Gigs that are in the Earth.' This Prophecy, we say, has
it not been fulfilled, is it not fulfilling?

And so here, O Reader, has the time come for us two to part. Toilsome
was our journeying together; not without offence; but it is done. To me
thou wert as a beloved shade, the disembodied or not yet embodied spirit
of a Brother. To thee I was but as a Voice. Yet was our relation a kind
of sacred one; doubt not that! Whatsoever once sacred things become
hollow jargons, yet while the Voice of Man speaks with Man, hast thou
not there the living fountain out of which all sacrednesses sprang,
and will yet spring? Man, by the nature of him, is definable as 'an
incarnated Word.' Ill stands it with me if I have spoken falsely: thine
also it was to hear truly. Farewell.

THE END.

INDEX.

ABBAYE, massacres, Jourgniac, Sicard, and Maton's account of.

ACCEPTATION, grande, by Louis XVI.

AGOUST, Captain d', seizes two Parlementeers.

AIGUILLON, d', at Quiberon, account of, in favour, at death of Louis XV.

AINTRIGUES, Count d'.

ALTAR of Fatherland in Champ-de-Mars, scene at, christening at.

AMIRAL, assassin, guillotined.

ANGLAS, Boissy d', President, First of Prairial.

ANGOULEME, Duchesse d', parts from her father.

ANGREMONT, Collenot d',