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During these months and years he had talked to them, and they had listened; he had poured forth treasures of eloquence, cajoled them, as he had done just now. The noise and hubbub were growing apace. If Tinville and Merlin had desired to infuriate the mob, they had more than succeeded.
Public Prosecutor Foucquier Tinville thought all these schemes very tame. Why should the People of France be led to think that the era of a new religion would mean an era of milk and water, of pageants and of fireworks? Let every man, woman, and child know that this was an era of blood and again of blood.
Only, unfortunately for us, Fouché had no Tacitus to chronicle his deeds of horror and his ineffable treacheries and his complacent moderation in infamy. Would that the author of the Annals re- incarnated could have given us pictures not only of Fouché but of Robespierre, Marat, Saint-Just, Camille Desmoulins, Fouquier Tinville, and the rest!
Fouquier- Tinville, surly and ill-humoured, had his back half-turned towards him, was moodily picking at his teeth. Chauvelin had all the leisure which he required. He smoothed out the creases in the paper and spread it out carefully upon the desk close to the other man's elbow. Fouquier- Tinville looked down on it, over his shoulder. "What is that?" he queried.
"But I don't understand now, how you managed to reach Paris, my dear Blakeney!" said Deroulede at last, placing an anxious hand on his friend's shoulder. "The government has not forgotten The Scarlet Pimpernel." "La! I took care of that!" responded Blakeney with his short, pleasant laugh. "I sent Tinville my autograph this morning." "You are mad, Blakeney!" "Not altogether, my friend. My faith!
You ask what I can have retrenched from former relations, whilst what remains is so deplorable. The order for execution addressed by Fouquier Tinville to the executioner has been seen by several persons now living.
Even Tinville lost his attitude of dry sarcasm; his thin cheeks were glowing with the lust of the fight. Already for the past few months, the trials before the Committee of Public Safety had been dull, monotonous, uninteresting.
A murmur of approval greeted these words, and Tinville remarked unctuously: "Quite so, quite so. We esteem your chivalry, Citizen-Deputy. The same spirit, no doubt, actuates you to maintain that the accused knew nothing of the papers which you say you destroyed?" "She knew nothing of them.
Then Tinville and Merlin both cursed loudly and volubly, and bidding their men follow them, turned away from the house in the Rue de l'Ancienne Comedie and left its toothless landlady on her own doorstep still volubly protesting her patriotism and her desire to serve the government of the Republic.
He pleaded for her earnestly, declaring that she must he regarded as insane; but those clear, calm eyes and that gentle face made her sanity a matter of little doubt. She showed her quick wit in the answers which she gave to the rough prosecutor, Fouquier-Tinville, who tried to make her confess that she had accomplices. "Who prompted you to do this deed?" roared Tinville. "I needed no prompting.
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