It is difficult long to hate the enemy of those whom we hate.
XIX.
The growing hatred of Robespierre and Brissot became daily more deadly.
The sittings of the Jacobins and the newspapers were the continual theatre of the struggles and reconciliations of these two men.

Equal in strength in the nation--equal in talent in the tribune--it was evident that they were afraid of each other in their attacks.

They affected mutual respect, even when most offensive; but this repressed animosity only corroded their hearts more deeply, and it burst forth occasionally beneath the politeness of their language, like death beneath the glance of steel.
All these fermentations of division, rivalry, and resentment, boiled over in the April sittings.

They were like a general review of two great parties who were about to destroy the empire in disputing their own ascendency.

The Feuillants or moderate constitutionalists were the victims, that each of the two popular parties mutually immolated to the suspicions and rage of parties.