There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the…

Jennifer Donnelly
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There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution. ✨ Jennifer Donnelly (2015). Revolution, p.190, Bloomsbury Publishing
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