Return to the army; it is the only place nowadays for a young man like you and of your rank.

You have a future before you; but mind this--keep your mouth shut!"] [Footnote 3151: Hua, 167..

Narrative by his guest, the physician Lambry, an intimate friend of Danton ultra-fanatical and member of a committee in which the question came up whether the members of the "Right" should likewise be put out of the way.

"Danton had energetically repelled this sanguinary proposal.

'Everybody knows,' he said, 'that I do not shrink from a criminal act when necessary; but I disdain to commit a useless one."'] [Footnote 3152: Mortimer-Ternaux, Iv.437.Danton exclaims, in relation to the hot-headed commissioners sent by him into the department: "Eh! damn it, do you suppose that we would send you young ladies ?"] [Footnote 3153: Philippe de Segur, "Memoires,"I.12.