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Had he been less mean, something might have been said in extenuation of his cruelty. Had he been less cruel, something might have been said in extenuation of his meanness. But for him, regicide and court spy, for him who patronized Lebon and betrayed Demerville, for him who wantoned alternately in gasconades of Jacobinism and gasconades of servility, what excuse has the largest charity to offer.
This is a curious anticipation of the Lenior system, not brought out until more than fifty years later; but there is no evidence that Lebon ever constructed an engine after the design referred to.
They informed me that on the morrow they would crucify him on a cross of palm-wood, head downward." "And they executed Lebon?" Leclair shrugged his shoulders. "I suppose so," he answered with great bitterness. "I have never seen or heard of him since. As for me, they reserved me for some festivities at Makam Jibrail.
As a matter of fact, my Captain, these people do sometimes drink a little of the blood of a slaughtered enemy." "Impossible!" "True, I tell you! They destroyed our plane with fire and sword, reviled us as pigs and brothers of pigs, and named poor Lebon 'kalb ibn kalb, or 'dog and son of a dog. Then they separated into two bands. One band departed toward Wady Tawarik, taking Lebon.
"He made it when he wanted to go to America as a sailor. He was always asking me how a three-masted brig is fitted out." They look at the ship again, at its perfect little sails at the little rags. Lebon returns. "I don't know how to tell you about it, abbot. The women say that Haggart and his sailor are being led over here. The women are afraid."
"These charges," he said, "have been suggested by wily aristocrats. The man who crushes the enemies of the people, though he may be hurried by his zeal into some excesses, can never be a proper object of censure. The proceedings of Lebon may have been a little harsh as to form."
Barère had been about three years at Bordeaux when he received intelligence that the mob of the town designed him the honor of a visit on the ninth of Thermidor, and would probably administer to him what he had, in his defence of his friend Lebon, described as substantial justice under forms a little harsh.
I've looked on death in many terrible forms without shedding a tear but this one! oh, Mademoiselle Paula! Would that I could have died in your place!" And again quivering with emotion, the Breton turned and leaned against the wall to hide his tears. Suddenly a convulsion shook the form of my dear one and Dr. Lebon stepped forward and took her hand. "The end is coming," he said.
He associated with the executioner, and admitted him to his table. Carrier, having more victims to strike, surpassed even Lebon; he was bilious, fanatical, and naturally blood-thirsty. He had only awaited the opportunity to execute enormities that the imagination even of Marat would not have dared to conceive.
"To-morrow, at seven o'clock," writes Hugues, "let the sacred guillotine be erected!" "The demoiselle guillotine," writes Lecarlier, "keeps steadily agoing." "The relatives and friends of emigres and of refractory priests," writes Lebon, "monopolize the guillotine.. . Day before yesterday, the sister of the former Comte de Bethune sneezed in the sack."
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