"Well, what is it?" said Danton.
Thus conversed these three terrible men,—conflicting thunderbolts!
[III.]
A QUIVERING OF THE INMOST FIBRES.
The conversation ceased for a time. Each Titan betook himself to his own reflections.
Lions are disturbed by hydras. Robespierre had grown very pale, and Danton very much flushed. Both shuddered. Marat's wild glare had died out; calmness, imperious calmness, now rested on the face of that man, feared by those who were themselves objects of awe.
Danton felt himself conquered, but was unwilling to yield.