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232 the Republic. Defend me! I defended you! You won't take me from here, you monsters! Cowards, murderers! Oh, Lucile! Horace! My dear onesThey take him out.]

[deeply stirred, too, have a wife and childrenRecovering his self-command., Danton, no weakness.

[to  don't you take advantage of the people's feelings? They are on the point of fighting.

pigs! Nonsense! Pigs! They enjoy our little performance; they are there to applaud the victors. I've taught them only too well to act for themselves.

them up now!

late. And what the devil do I care? The Republic will fall, and I want to go before I see the end.

what happened because you hesitated! Why didn't you forestall Robespierre?

Revolution cannot exist with both of us. I could never have defended myself without killing him. I prefer the Revolution to myself goes out.]

, Danton, it is some consolation to die as one has lived.

committed every crime for the sake of Liberty. I shouldered every task that the hypocrites shunned. I have sacrificed everything for the Revolution. I now see it was all in vain. The minx has played me false; and now she sacrifices me, as she will