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Rh [softly poor friends, I really pity you.

, my handsome fellow?

're selling the bear-skin, when your own is already disposed of.

skin? Yes, I know, there are many who would like it. Saint-Just especially. Well, let him come and take it, and if he succeeds, let him make a rug of it.

bother''He shrugs his shoulders and lapses into silence. Meanwhile,  has finished his letter, which is taken out by a guard.'']

we await the Convention's answer, let us continue''The gendarmes make the prisoners sit down again. He says to ''. name and occupation?

-Nicolas Philippeaux, former judge at Le Mans, representative in the Convention.

age?

-five.

are charged with having paralyzed the national defense, during your mission in La Vendée; you attempted to throw the Committee of Public Safety into disrepute, by means of insulting pamphlets; you were a conspirator with Danton and Fabre in their attempt to restore the royalty.

exposed the indignation of the public against the brigandage of certain generals. It was my duty, and I accomplished it.

this implacable struggle for France, your