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Gladstone insisted that they were applied to Mr. Parnell alone. This controversy between the Prime Minister and Mr. Chamberlain gave a little life to a speech that hitherto had been falling desperately flat, and as such the interruption was a tactical mistake. But it brought with curious unexpectedness a scene not without pathos and significance. In the midst of the thrust and ripost of Mr.
Brotteaux chose the speech of the patron saint of France in the first canto of the Pucelle: "Je suis Denis et saint de mon métier, J'aime la Gaule,..." The citoyen Blaise, though a far less well-read man, replied without hesitation with Richemond's ripost: "Monsieur le Saint, ce n'était pas la peine D'abandonner le céleste domaine...."
This was designed as a triumphant ripost to the Feast of Reason, which Chaumette and his friends had celebrated in the winter. The energumens of the Goddess of Reason had now been some weeks in their bloody graves; by this time, if they had given the wrong answer to the supreme enigma, their eyes would perhaps be opened.
"You, Josef?" he queried with a satisfied laugh. "Not yet, m'sieu the American," came back the sneering answer. "You first," it taunted, just beyond Carter's reach in the gloom. The remark was followed by a slight touch in the shoulder from which the warm blood spouted as the keen point was withdrawn. "Not quite low enough for me, Josef," answered Carter. "That was only a scratch. Try a ripost.
He saved himself by leaping backwards just saved himself with not an inch to spare and threw up his blade to meet the thrust. "Ye murderous villain," he snarled under his breath, as steel ground on steel, and he flung forward to the attack. But from the gloom came a little laugh to answer him, and his angry lunge was foiled by an enveloping movement that ended in a ripost.
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