, better then than later, touching
certain things: "Shaven eyebrows of Volunteer Patriots, for instance?"
Also "your threats of shivering in pieces?" Also, "why you have not
chased Brunswick hotly enough?" Thus, with sharp croak, inquires the
Figure.--"Ah, c'est vous qu'on appelle Marat, You are he they call
Marat!" answers the General, and turns coldly on his heel. (Dumouriez,
iii. 115.--Marat's account, In the Debats des Jacobins and Journal de
la Republique (Hist. Parl. xix. 317-21), agrees to the turning on
the heel, but strives to interpret it differently.)--"Marat!" The
blonde-gowns quiver like aspens; the dress-coats gather round; Actor
Talma (for it is his house), and almost the very chandelier-lights, are
blue: till this obscene Spectrum, or visual Appearance, vanish back into
native Night.

General Dumouriez, in few brief days, is gone again, towards the
Netherlands; will attack the Netherlands, winter though it be. And
General Montesquiou, on the South-East, has driven in the Sardinian
Majesty; nay, almost without a shot fired, has taken Savoy from him,
which longs to become a piece of the Republic. And General Custine, on
the North-East, has dashed forth on Spires and its Arsenal; and then
on Electoral Mentz, not uninvited, wherein are German Democrats and no
shadow of an Elector now:--so that in the last days of October, Frau
Forster, a daughter of Heyne's, somewhat democratic, walking out of the
Gate of Mentz with her Husband, finds French Soldiers playing at bowls
with cannon-balls there. Forster trips cheerfully over one iron bomb,
with "Live the Republic!" A black-bearded National Guard answers: "Elle
vivra bien sans vous, It will probably live independently of you!"
(Johann Georg Forster's Briefwechsel (Leipzig, 1829), i. 88.)

BOOK 3.II.

REGICIDE

Chapter 3.2.I.

The Deliberative.

France therefore has done two things very completely: she has hurled
back her Cimmerian Invaders far over the marches; and likewise she has
shattered her own internal Social Constitution, even to the minutest
fibre of it, into wreck and dissolution. Utterly it is all altered: from
King down to Parish Constable, all Authorities, Magistrates, Judges,
persons that bore rule, have had, on the sudden, to alter themselves, so
far as needful; or else, on the sudden, and not without violence, to
be altered: a Patriot 'Executive Council of Ministers,' with a Patriot
Danton in it, and then a whole Nation and National