In passionate sympathy with the early purposes of the Revolution, Marat seemed to her a monster, the incarnation of the spirit which would defeat the cause of Liberty.

It was believed that his list of the proscribed was not confined to Paris, but that the names of thousands of victims all over France were already designated.

In that extraordinary scene at her trial, when questioned, she impatiently said, "Yes, yes, I killed him.

I killed one man to save a hundred thousand!" Nothing was lacking to make this, with one exception, the most dramatic incident of the Revolution.

Her eloquent address, to the French people, found pinned to the waist of her dress after her execution, and her splendid courage to the end, rounds out the picturesque story of her useless martyrdom.