d drawers that we took
Feudalism by the beard, and did, and dared, shedding our blood like
water? Expressive Silence, muse thou their praise!--

Chapter 3.7.V.

Lion sprawling its last.

Representative Carrier went to the Guillotine, in December last;
protesting that he acted by orders. The Revolutionary Tribunal, after
all it has devoured, has now only, as Anarchic things do, to devour
itself. In the early days of May, men see a remarkable thing:
Fouquier-Tinville pleading at the Bar once his own. He and his chief
Jurymen, Leroi August-Tenth, Juryman Vilate, a Batch of Sixteen;
pleading hard, protesting that they acted by orders: but pleading in
vain. Thus men break the axe with which they have done hateful things;
the axe itself having grown hateful. For the rest, Fouquier died hard
enough: "Where are thy Batches?" howled the People.--"Hungry canaille,"
asked Fouquier, "is thy Bread cheaper, wanting them?"

Remarkable Fouquier; once but as other Attorneys and Law-beagles, which
hunt ravenous on this Earth, a well-known phasis of human nature; and
now thou art and remainest the most remarkable Attorney that ever lived
and hunted in the Upper Air! For, in this terrestrial Course of Time,
there was to be an Avatar of Attorneyism; the Heavens had said, Let
there be an Incarnation, not divine, of the venatory Attorney-spirit
which keeps its eye on the bond only;--and lo, this was it; and they
have attorneyed it in its turn. Vanish, then, thou rat-eyed Incarnation
of Attorneyism; who at bottom wert but as other Attorneys, and too
hungry Sons of Adam! Juryman Vilate had striven hard for life, and
published, from his Prison, an ingenious Book, not unknown to us; but it
would not stead: he also had to vanish; and this his Book of the
Secret Causes of Thermidor, full of lies, with particles of truth in it
undiscoverable otherwise, is all that remains of him.

Revolutionary Tribunal has done; but vengeance has not done.
Representative Lebon, after long struggling, is handed over to the
ordinary Law Courts, and by them guillotined. Nay, at Lyons and
elsewhere, resuscitated Moderatism, in its vengeance, will not wait
the slow process of Law; but bursts into the Prisons, sets fire to the
prisons; burns some three score imprisoned Jacobins to dire death,
or chokes them 'with the smoke of straw.' There go vengeful truculent
'Companies of Jesus,' 'Companies of the Sun;' slaying Jacobinism
wherever they meet with it; flinging