In aftertimes he often said that their regard, fixed, earnest, half-reproachful, and yet cheering and triumphant, filled him with new life and courage.

They spoke to his heart as the trumpet speaks to the war-horse.

He moved from his seat; he whispered with his allies: the spirit he had drawn in was contagious; the men whom Robespierre especially had denounced, and who saw the sword over their heads, woke from their torpid trance.

Vadier, Cambon, Billaud-Varennes, Panis, Amar, rose at once,--all at once demanded speech.

Vadier is first heard, the rest succeed.