You said that, were it possible, you would wish that the hand of the executioner might be stayed.

It was your own words that set me on to say what I did.

I did not dream that I should displease you.

Tell me, M.Robespierre, tell me that you are not angry with me, and I will forget it all." "Forget it all.

Yes, things trivial and of no concern are long remembered, but matters on which depend the life and death of those we ought to love, are soon forgotten if they are unpleasant.