picture to myself
the bitterness of this regret, and I contemplate it with satisfaction.
Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can
inhabit, particularly such a soul as yours. It is because of this that
I am glad to know that you survived the riot at the Feydau, although at
the time it was no part of my intention that you should. Because of this
I am content that you should live to enrage and suffer in the shadow of
your evil deed, knowing at last--since you had not hitherto the wit to
discern it for yourself--that the voice of Philippe de Vilmorin will
follow you to denounce you ever more loudly, ever more insistently,
until having lived in dread you shall go down in blood under the just
rage which your victim's dangerous gift of eloquence is kindling against
you."

I find it odd that he should have omitted from this letter all mention
of Mlle. Binet, and I am disposed to account it at least a partial
insincerity that he should have assigned entirely to his self-imposed
mission, and not at all to his lacerated feelings in the matter of
Climene, the action which he had taken at the Feydau.

Those two letters, both written in April of that year 1789, had for only
immediate effect to increase the activity with which Andre-Louis Moreau
was being sought.

Le Chapelier would have found him so as to lend him assistance, to
urge upon him once again that he should take up a political career. The
electors of Nantes would have found him--at least, they would have
found Omnes Omnibus, of whose identity with himself they were still in
ignorance--on each of the several occasions when a vacancy occurred in
their body. And the Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr and M. de Lesdiguieres
would have found him that they might send him to the gallows.

With a purpose no less vindictive was he being sought by M. Binet, now
unhappily recovered from his wound to face completest ruin. His troupe
had deserted him during his illness, and reconstituted under the
direction of Polichinelle it was now striving with tolerable success to
continue upon the lines which Andre-Louis had laid down. M. le Marquis,
prevented by the riot from expressing in person to Mlle. Binet his
purpose of making an end of their relations, had been constrained to
write to her to that effect from Azyr a few days later. He tempered the
blow by enclosing in discharge of all liabilities a bill on the Caisse
d'Escompte for a hundred louis. Nevertheless i