Easy, then, to strike the conspirators whom we shall designate to our agents.

On the same day, too, Fouquier and Dumas shall not rest; and a sufficient number of 'the suspect' to maintain salutary awe, and keep up the revolutionary excitement, shall perish by the glaive of the law.

The 10th shall be the great day of action.

Payan, of these last culprits, have you prepared a list ?" "It is here," returned Payan, laconically, presenting a paper.
Robespierre glanced over it rapidly.

"Collot d'Herbois!--good! Barrere!--ay, it was Barrere who said, 'Let us strike: the dead alone never return.' ('Frappons! il n'y a que les morts qui ne revient pas.'-- Barrere.) Vadier, the savage jester!--good--good! Vadier of the Mountain.