For if Danton the Colossus has succumbed to the Terror, this ravenous Goddess who has devoured or corrupted the best of France, what chance has any of us?
" Heavens can he be a Danton" ? said Mathilde to herself, " but he has so noble a face, and that Danton was so horribly ugly, a butcher I believe" . Julien was still fairly near her.