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`` It is a fearful fact connected with this family that a sort of depravity seems to pervade it . The father was executed , a son is now in the galleys , a second has only escaped a public and disgraceful end by flight ; while the eldest son and two young children have alone been able to resist this atmosphere of moral contagion . `` What a singular circumstance connected with this double execution it is that the day of mid-Lent should have been selected . At seven o'clock to-morrow , the hour fixed , the streets will be filled with groups of masqueraders , who , having passed the night at the different balls and places of entertainment beyond the barriers , will be just returning home ; added to which , at the place of execution , the Barrière St. Jacques , the noise of the revels still being kept up in honour of the carnival can be distinctly heard . '' * * * * * The following morning 's sun rose bright and cloudless . At four o'clock in the morning various troops of soldiers surrounded the approaches to Bicêtre . We shall now return to Calabash and her mother in their dungeon .