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"Yes, to the States-General," answered Maximilien. "As a deputy?" inquired Caron, with ever-heightening interest. "As a deputy, Monsieur. My friends of Arras have elected me to the Third Estate of Artois." "Dieu! How I envy you!" exclaimed La Boulaye, to cry out a moment later in the pain to which Duhamel's well-intentioned operations were subjecting him.
Maximilien Robespierre," he repeated with a still more piercing sound, "do I not speak the truth?" "Have I not stripped the veil from your thoughts? Am I not looking on your heart?" He then addressed each of the Jacobin leaders in a brief appeal. "Billaud Varennes, stand forth do you not long to drive your dagger into the bosom of this new tyrant?
They loved him, they swore in voices of thunder, each seeking to be heard above his neighbour's din, and it would break their hearts to find him guilty, yet find him guilty they must unless he chose the course which this good patriot Maximilien pointed out to him. La Boulaye stood pale but composed, his lips compressed, his keen eyes alert.
For fully an hour they sat and talked, and each improved in his liking of the other, until at last, bethinking him of the flight of time, Robespierre announced that he must start. "You will take him to Paris with you, Maximilien?" quoth the old pedagogue.
His sloping forehead was crowned by a periwig, sedulously curled and powdered for all that with the noblesse this was already a discarded fashion. La Boulaye replied to his patron's compliments with the best grace he could command considering how full of another matter was his mind. "I may congratulate myself, Maximilien," he added, "upon my good fortune in coming before you took your departure.
He was perfectly at ease in his surroundings, and as La Boulaye was carried into the schoolmaster's study and laid on a couch, he came forward and peered curiously at the secretary's figure, voicing an inquiry concerning him. "It is the young man of whom I was telling you, Maximilien," answered Duhamel. "I give thanks to God that they have not killed him outright.
But as you were not there, and as my letters were urgent, I have been compelled to ride for the past six hours through that infernal deluge. Enfin, here you are, and here is my letter from the Citizen-deputy Maximilien Robespierre and here I'll rest me for the next six hours." Bidding the fellow by all means rest and refresh himself, La Boulaye broke the seal, and read the following: Dear Caron,
Shall we say that anxious, slight, ineffectual-looking man, under thirty, in spectacles, his eyes troubled, careful; with upturned face, snuffing dimly the uncertain future time; complexion of a multiplex atrabilious color, the final shade of which may be pale sea-green? That greenish-colored individual is an advocate of Arras; his name is Maximilien Robespierre.
Viper! known only by your coils and your poison; like the original serpent, degraded even from the brute into the reptile, you already feel your sentence. I pronounce it before all. The man to whom you now cling will crush you. Maximilien Robespierre, is not your heel already lifted up to tread out the life of this traitor?
Ardently did Maximilien pour out his eloquence, enumerating the many virtues of the accused and dwelling at length upon his vast services to the Republic, his hitherto unfaltering fidelity to the nation and the people's cause, and lastly, deploring that in a moment of weakness he should have committed the indiscretion which had brought him where he stood.
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