“No,” I replied, “I did not think that I should need it to-night.” Madame de Saint-James then rang the bell, ordered her own carriage to be brought round, and said to the little lawyer in a low voice:-- “Monsieur de Robespierre, will you do me the kindness to drop Monsieur Marat at his own door?--for he is not in a state to go alone.” “With pleasure, madame,” replied Monsieur de Robespierre, with his finical gallantry. “I only wish you had requested me to do something more difficult.” End of Project Gutenberg’s Catherine de’ Medici, by Honore de Balzac