SAINT-JUST. It would give me great pleasure to attack the monster.
ROBESPIERRE [getting papers, which he gives to SAINT-JUST]. Here are the notes, all ready for you.
VADIER [aside]. He has a whole portfolio like that for each of his friends.
ROBESPIERRE. Let us not honor Danton by trying him alone: it would attract too much attention.
BILLAUD-VARENNE. Let us overwhelm him in a general accusation.
VADIER. Whom shall we put with him, to fill out the menu?
SAINT-JUST. Every one who has tried to corrupt the cause of Liberty by means of money, evil example, or brains.
VADIER. Let us be clear. You're too vague.
ROBESPIERRE. Danton loved gold. Let him be buried with gold. Let us implicate him in the bank affair. Put him in with the embezzlers. He will find himself in company with his friend, his secretary, his Fabre d'Eglantine.
VADIER. Fabre, Chabot, the Jews, the Austrian bankers, the Freys, and the Diederischens—good. We begin to have an imposing list.