Lebas and St.Just were constant to the girls they loved, and Couthon, who was an object of pity as a cripple, was happy in the affection of a young wife whom he adored; and yet these were the men who assisted Robespierre in organizing the Reign of Terror, and with him share the infamy of the deeds which were then committed.
They were all of them young when they died.

They were men of education, and a certain elevation, of spirit.

Men who were able to sacrifice the pleasures of youth to the hard work of high political duties.

Blood could not have been, was not, acceptable to them; yet under how great a load of infamy do their names now lie buried! "We thought you were going to seclude yourself tonight," said Lebas, "and we were regretting it." "What have you done with Eleanor," said Madame Duplay, "that she does not come down to us ?" "I thought to have found her here," answered he; "she left me some minutes since.

She was not in good spirits, and has probably retired for the night.