“GUILLOTINE!”
Henriette is borne shrieking out to the 159 death chamber––“One hour with her––only one hour––then I will go with him!”
But she and the Vaudrey are already being taken out together by the attendants.
CHAPTER XXV
THE VOICE OF DANTON
We have explained that Danton took little part in the Government after the repelling of the foreign foe and the commencement of the Terror. He had no sympathy with the excesses of his former colleagues, but on the other hand was subject to strange lassitudes or inhibitions that oft paralyzed his spirit except at the supreme hour.
Saving France had been his real job.
Among these petty and mean minds seeking power or pelf or the repayment of some ancient grudge, Danton had nothing to do! He loved his frontier fighters––men who, the same as himself, dared all for France.