rday; in a people prone to imitation, and monomania!
Swart choleric men try Charlotte's feat, and their pistols miss fire;
soft blooming young women try it, and, only half-resolute, leave their
knives in a shop.

O Pitt, and ye Faction of the Stranger, shall the Republic never have
rest; but be torn continually by baited springs, by wires of explosive
spring-guns? Swart Amiral, fair young Cecile, and all that knew them,
and many that did not know them, lie locked, waiting the scrutiny of
Tinville.

Chapter 3.6.IV.

Mumbo-Jumbo.

But on the day they call Decadi, New-Sabbath, 20 Prairial, 8th June by
old style, what thing is this going forward, in the Jardin National,
whilom Tuileries Garden?

All the world is there, in holydays clothes: (Vilate, Causes Secretes de
la Revolution de 9 Thermidor.) foul linen went out with the Hebertists;
nay Robespierre, for one, would never once countenance that; but went
always elegant and frizzled, not without vanity even,--and had his room
hung round with seagreen Portraits and Busts. In holyday clothes, we
say, are the innumerable Citoyens and Citoyennes: the weather is of the
brightest; cheerful expectation lights all countenances. Juryman Vilate
gives breakfast to many a Deputy, in his official Apartment, in the
Pavillon ci-devant of Flora; rejoices in the bright-looking multitudes,
in the brightness of leafy June, in the auspicious Decadi, or
New-Sabbath. This day, if it please Heaven, we are to have, on improved
Anti-Chaumette principles: a New Religion.

Catholicism being burned out, and Reason-worship guillotined, was there
not need of one? Incorruptible Robespierre, not unlike the Ancients, as
Legislator of a free people will now also be Priest and Prophet. He has
donned his sky-blue coat, made for the occasion; white silk waistcoat
broidered with silver, black silk breeches, white stockings,
shoe-buckles of gold. He is President of the Convention; he has made
the Convention decree, so they name it, decreter the 'Existence of the
Supreme Being,' and likewise 'ce principe consolateur of the Immortality
of the Soul.' These consolatory principles, the basis of rational
Republican Religion, are getting decreed; and here, on this blessed
Decadi, by help of Heaven and Painter David, is to be our first act of
worship.

See, accordingly, how after Decree passed, and what has been called
'the scraggiest Prophetic Discourse ever uttered by man,'--Mahomet
Robespierre, in sky-