Robespierre ascended the steps of the tribune with studied calmness.

His impassive brow involuntarily brightened at the smiles and applauses of the Jacobins.
"This speech meets all my wishes," said he, looking towards Brissot and his friends; "it includes in itself all the inculpations which the enemies by whom I am surrounded have brought against me.

In replying to M.Guadet, I shall reply to all.

I am invited to have recourse to ostracism; there would, no doubt, be some excess of vanity in my condemning myself--that is the punishment of great men, and it is only for M.Brissot to class them.

I am reproached for being so constantly in the tribune.