the child. He remembered
them to repeat them after the lapse of half a century.

The cells in which they were imprisoned still remain as they were left
on the morning in which these illustrious men were led to their
execution. On the dingy walls of stone are still recorded those
sentiments which they had inscribed there, and which indicate the
nature of those emotions which animated and sustained them. These
proverbial maxims and heroic expressions, gleaned from French
tragedies or the classic page, were written with the blood which they
had drawn from their own veins. In one place is carefully written,

"Quand il n'a pu sauver la liberte de Rome,
Caton est libre encore et suit mourir en homme."

"_When he no longer had power to preserve the liberty of Rome
Cato still was free, and knew how to die for man._"

Again,

"Cui virtus non deest
Ille nunquam omnino miser."

_"He who retains his integrity
Can never be wholly miserable."_

In another place,

"La vraie liberte est celle de l'ame."

_"True liberty is that of the soul."_

On a beam was written,

"Dignum certe Deo spectaculum fortem virum cum calamitate
colluctantem."

_"Even God may look with pleasure upon a brave man struggling against
adversity."_

Again,

"Quels solides appui dans le malheur supreme!
J'ai pour moi ma vertu, l'equite, Dieu meme."

_"How substantial the consolation in the greatest calamity
I have for mine, my virtue, justice, God himself."_

Beneath this was written,

"Le jour n'est pas plus pur que le fond de mon coeur."

_"The day is not more pure than the depths of my heart."_

In large letters of blood there was inscribed, in the hand-writing of
Vergniaud,

"Potius mori quam foedari."

_"Death is preferable to dishonor."_

But one sentence is recorded there which could be considered strictly
of a religious character. It was taken from the "Imitation of Christ."

"Remember that you are not called to a life of indulgence and
pleasure, but to toil and to suffer."

La Source and Sillery, two very devoted friends, occupied a cell
together. La Source was a devoted Christian, and found, in the
consolations of piety, an unfailing support. Sillery possessed a
feeling heart, and was soothed and comforted by the devotion of his
friend. La Source composed a beautiful hymn, adapted to a sweet and
solemn air, which they called their