"He defends his principles," said she, "with warmth and pertinacity--he has the courage to stand up singly in their defence at the time when the number of the people's champions is vastly reduced.
The court hates him, therefore we should like him.

I esteem Robespierre for this, and show him that I do; and then too, though he is not very attentive at the evening meetings, he comes occasionally and asks me to give him a dinner.

I was much struck with the affright with which he was agitated on the day of the king's flight to Varennes.

He said the same evening at Petion's that the Royal Family had not taken such a step without preparing in Paris a Saint Bartholomew for the patriots, and that he expected to die before he was twenty-four hours older.

Petion, Buzot, Roland, on the contrary, said that this flight of the king's was his abdication, that it was necessary to profit by it in order to prepare men's minds for the republic.