Camille Desmoulins perished, and Glyndon, hopeless at once of his own life and the cause of humanity, from that time sought only the occasion of flight from the devouring Golgotha.

He had two lives to heed besides his own; for them he trembled, and for them he schemed and plotted the means of escape.
Though Glyndon hated the principles, the party (None were more opposed to the Hebertists than Camille Desmoulins and his friends.

It is curious and amusing to see these leaders of the mob, calling the mob "the people" one day, and the "canaille" the next, according as it suits them.

"I know," says Camille, "that they (the Hebertists) have all the canaille with them."-- (Ils ont toute la canaille pour eux.)), and the vices of Nicot, he yet extended to the painter's penury the means of subsistence; and Jean Nicot, in return, designed to exalt Glyndon to that very immortality of a Brutus from which he modestly recoiled himself.

He founded his designs on the physical courage, on the wild and unsettled fancies of the English artist, and on the vehement hate and indignant loathing with which he openly regarded the government of Maximilien.
At the same hour, on the same day in July, in which Robespierre conferred (as we have seen) with his allies, two persons were seated in a small room in one of the streets leading out of the Rue St.Honore; the one, a man, appeared listening impatiently, and with a sullen brow, to his companion, a woman of singular beauty, but with a bold and reckless expression, and her face as she spoke was animated by the passions of a half-savage and vehement nature.
"Englishman," said the woman, "beware!--you know that, whether in flight or at the place of death, I would brave all to be by your side,--you know THAT! Speak!" "Well, Fillide; did I ever doubt your fidelity ?" "Doubt it you cannot,--betray it you may.