There are no questions asked, the prisoners are brought in in bunches, and are condemned wholesale.

I say nothing against the condemnation of the aristocrats; but when perhaps two or three aristocrats are brought up with half a dozen journalists, and a dozen others who may have been arrested merely out of spite, and are all condemned in five minutes, it is clear that the only way to live is to avoid being arrested, and the only way to avoid being arrested is to avoid attracting attention.
"If you were really going on a matter of business, it would be different, but to ride to Versailles merely to see the place would be regarded as ample proof that you were an aristocrat; and no one would regard your papers as anything but a proof that these had been obtained by fraud, and that you were either an aristocrat, or a spy of Pitt's, or a Girondist, and certainly an enemy of the Convention.

Therefore, monsieur, if you wish to go anywhere, walk, or go out in a market cart, for to ride might be fatal." "I will take your advice," Leigh said.

"I did not think that things were so bad as that." "They could not be worse, monsieur; it would be impossible.

But we who are quiet men think that it cannot go on much longer; even the sans-culottes are getting tired of bloodshed.