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your enemies are plotting. Billaud-Varenne is saying things against you. Vadier is making jokes about your quick demise. Reports of your arrest are circulating in Paris.

[with a shrug! They wouldn't dare!

you know what Vadier says? I hardly dare repeat it. He said, "We'll soon gut that fat turbot."

[enraged Vadier say that? Well, tell that blackguard that I'll eat his brain, and grind his skull to powder! The moment I begin fighting for my life, I am worse than a cannibalHe flies into a rage.]

last! Now, come!

?

before the clubs, inspire the people, overthrow the Committees, put down Robespierre.

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not?

. I don't want to.

're injuring yourself, Danton.

makes me rage when I see these good people afraid to act. What fiendish poison is in the air, keeping you people, whose heads are already in the noose, from moving a leg, from fighting, or at least running away? I've done all I could. I leave you; I'll find Robespierre, whom you are all afraid of—Yes, you are, though you joke about it; your very