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Like the other condemned, her hands had just been pinioned behind her. She stood forlorn and helpless. Horror froze him.... The Child who had saved his life from the spadassins the dear little face the memory of which he had always treasured! He asked her a mute question, she mutely nodded.
The mob the same that had once acclaimed Danton in chair of state was not to be balked of blood. The orator continued: "These sufferers are friends of you who demand their death. The girl once saved me the organizer of your victory from spadassins. The boy was ever known as the people's benefactor I have seen him buy loaves to keep you from starving!
The company ran up the third-floor stairs on the double jump. As they vanished, she was inside her rooms again and with the quarry. Minutes passed. The spadassins searched the top garrets. They sought the roof, saw escape was impossible that way. Then they clattered down the stairs. The leader hesitated at Henriette's door. "Faugh!" he said.
Danton plumped into the first door at the left of the stair-head. He was there when Henriette, who had been momentarily away, returned to her room. "The spies spadassins they would take my life " He was wounded. It was with a difficult hoarseness that he spoke. The little homekeeper put a warning finger to mouth. Running past him to the door, she slipped out and closed it.
He backed up to a house porch, quickly drew his own sword, and with herculean strength managed to cut down five or six spadassins of the advance party. Then he fled to the house where Henriette and also Robespierre lodged, rushed in and up the stairs. The following company were almost upon him. Their shouts and cries could be heard below.
'I have shewn myself a good enough man, he said composedly. He pointed one of his fingers at her. 'Pole is not one that shall be easily slain. He is like to have in his pay the defter spadassins of the two. I have known him since he was a child till when he fled abroad. 'But my cousin! Katharine pleaded. 'For the sake of your own little neck, let that gallant be hanged, he said smartly.
They had always coped with popular ferments by picking off the individual leaders, and they did not doubt their ability to do the same thing now. As Danton spoke, an influential Royalist, pretending to handclap his sentiments, privately signaled to a number of these "spadassins" or killers. On his way home from the meeting Danton was attacked in the lonely street.
What followed in a place where feelings and practices had become what they had become is not difficult to surmise. When the session rose, there were a dozen spadassins awaiting him in the vestibule, and this time the men of his own party were less concerned to guard him.
Motioning Danton back out of sight she opened the door on the crack, closed it as she slipped through, and encountered the bowing and smirking Robespierre. "A man escaped from the spadassins here last night-did he find refuge with you?" "You are mistaken, Monsieur. I am quite alone." "May I just see? Very intimate friend of mine, I am sure." "No, you may not!"
He looked in the direction of that voice, proceeding from the group of spadassins amid the Blacks across the Piste, and he smiled. Inaudibly his lips answered: "No, my friend Scaramouche; Scaramouche, the subtle, dangerous fellow who goes tortuously to his ends."
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