Twenty times I said to myself, on leaving, that if anything could arrest and turn the tide of the Revolution, it would be a picture of these meetings traced without caution or adaptation...

All my efforts were therefore directed to represent the truth, without rendering it repulsive.

Out of what had been merely a row, I concocted a scene...

I gave all the sentiments, but not always in the same words.

I translated their yells into words, their furious gestures into attitudes, and when I could not inspire esteem, I endeavored to rouse the emotions." There is no remedy for this evil; for, besides the absence of discipline, there is an inward and fundamental cause for the disorder.
These people are too susceptible.