The tall pines lost lose their slimness and stood in wide blurred blotches all across the way , and a great shadowy bird arose arise , wheeled wheel and melted melt , murmuring murmur , into the black-green sky .

CHAPTER I PARIS : SEPTEMBER , 1792 A surging surge , seething seethe , murmuring murmur crowd of beings that are human only in name , for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures , animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate .