er go.

Be this as it will, History remarks that the Commission of Twelve, now
clear enough as to the Plots; and luckily having 'got the threads of
them all by the end,' as they say,--are launching Mandates of Arrest
rapidly in these May days; and carrying matters with a high hand;
resolute that the sea of troubles shall be restrained. What chief
Patriot, Section-President even, is safe? They can arrest him; tear him
from his warm bed, because he has made irregular Section Arrestments!
They arrest Varlet Apostle of Liberty. They arrest Procureur-Substitute
Hebert, Pere Duchesne; a Magistrate of the People, sitting in Townhall;
who, with high solemnity of martyrdom, takes leave of his colleagues;
prompt he, to obey the Law; and solemnly acquiescent, disappears into
prison.

The swifter fly the Sections, energetically demanding him back;
demanding not arrestment of Popular Magistrates, but of a traitorous
Twenty-two. Section comes flying after Section;--defiling energetic,
with their Cambyses' vein of oratory: nay the Commune itself comes,
with Mayor Pache at its head; and with question not of Hebert and the
Twenty-two alone, but with this ominous old question made new, "Can you
save the Republic, or must we do it?" To whom President Max Isnard makes
fiery answer: If by fatal chance, in any of those tumults which since
the Tenth of March are ever returning, Paris were to lift a sacrilegious
finger against the National Representation, France would rise as one
man, in never-imagined vengeance, and shortly "the traveller would ask,
on which side of the Seine Paris had stood!" (Moniteur, Seance du 25
Mai, 1793.) Whereat the Mountain bellows only louder, and every Gallery;
Patriot Paris boiling round.

And Girondin Valaze has nightly conclaves at his house; sends billets;
'Come punctually, and well armed, for there is to be business.' And
Megaera women perambulate the streets, with flags, with lamentable
alleleu. (Meillan, Memoires, p. 195; Buzot, pp. 69, 84.) And the
Convention-doors are obstructed by roaring multitudes: find-spoken
hommes d'etat are hustled, maltreated, as they pass; Marat will
apostrophise you, in such death-peril, and say, Thou too art of them.
If Roland ask leave to quit Paris, there is order of the day. What help?
Substitute Hebert, Apostle Varlet, must be given back; to be crowned
with oak-garlands. The Commission of Twelve, in a Convention overwhelmed
with roaring Sections, is broken; then on the mo