But now the Mob’s passing whim had become the only law, as Robespierre himself would soon discover. I felt… — Michael Moorcock
But now the Mob’s passing whim had become the only law, as Robespierre himself would soon discover. I felt cruelly betrayed: by the Revolution, by men I had embraced as brothers, by Circumstance, and, as always, by God.
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