e inquired into, and
meanwhile the prisoner will be returned to the Conciergerie prison.
Thereupon he takes M. de Montmorin by the arm and leads him out of the
court-room, amidst the yells of the audience and not without risks to
himself; in the outside court a soldier of the National Guard strikes
at him with a saber, and the following day the court is obliged to
authorize eight delegates from the audience to go and see with their own
eyes that M. de Montmorin is really in prison.

At the moment of his acquittal a tragic remark is heard:

"You discharge him to-day and in two weeks he will cut our throats!"

Fear is evidently an adjunct of hatred. The Jacobin rabble is vaguely
conscious of their inferior numbers, of their usurpation, of their
danger, which increases in proportion as Brunswick draws near. They feel
that they live above a mine, and if the mine should explode!--Since they
think that their adversaries are scoundrels they feel they are capable
of a dirty trick, of a plot, of a massacre. As they themselves have
never behaved in any other way, they cannot conceive anything else.
Through an inevitable inversion of thought, they impute to others the
murderous intentions obscurely wrought out in the dark recesses of
their own disturbed brains.--On the 27th of August, after the funeral
procession gotten up by Sergent expressly to excite popular resentment,
their suspicions, at once specific and guided, begin to take the form of
certainty. Ten "commemorative" banners,[3114] each borne by a volunteer
on horseback, have paraded before all eyes the long list of massacres
"by the court and its agents":

1. the massacre at Nancy,

2. the massacre at Nimes,

3. the massacre at Montauban,

4. the massacre at Avignon,

5. the massacre at La Chapelle,

6. the massacre at Carpentras,

7. the massacre of the Champ de Mars, etc.

Faced with such displays, doubts and misgivings are out of the question.
To the women in the galleries, to the frequenters of the clubs, and to
pikemen in the suburbs it is from now beyond any doubt proved that the
aristocrats are habitual killers.

And on the other side there is another sign equally alarming "This
lugubrious ceremony, which ought to inspire by turns both reflection
and indignation,... did not generally produce that effect." The National
Guard in uniform, who came "apparently to make up for not appearing on
the day of action," did not behave themselves with civic propri