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The room and the ante-chamber adjoining the room where we were deliberating were filled with Representatives, who were peaceably conversing. Surprised, we called in Durand-Savoyat. "Did you not understand us?" asked Michel de Bourges. "Yes, certainly," answered Durand-Savoyat. "This house is perhaps marked," resumed Carnot; "we are in danger of being taken."
Jules Favre had several times exclaimed, "Is any one there?" "It is not possible," was the answer. "We have instructed Durand-Savoyat to allow no one to remain there." And the discussion continued. Nevertheless the sound of voices insensibly increased, and ultimately grew so distinct that it became necessary to see what it meant. Carnot half opened the door.
A noteworthy member of the Assembly a man of rare mind and of rare courage Durand-Savoyat who from the preceding evening until the last day constituted himself our doorkeeper, and even more than this, our usher and our attendant, himself had placed a bell on our table, and had said to us, "When you want me, ring, and I will come in." Wherever we went, there was he.
Durand-Savoyat nodded his head, and went back into the ante-chamber, saying, "It shall be done." He confined himself of his own accord to these two formulas; for us, "Things are looking well," for himself, "It shall be done." "It shall be done," a noble manner in which to speak of duty. Landrin and Durand-Savoyat having left, Michel de Bourges began to speak.
We begged Durand-Savoyat in future to allow no one to remain in the apartments, not even the Representatives of the People, to take note of all news and information, and to allow no one to penetrate to us but men who were indispensable, in short, as far as possible, to send away every one in order that the goings and comings might cease.
"And killed upon the spot," added Jules Favre, smiling with his calm smile. "Exactly so," answered Durand-Savoyat, with a look still quieter than Jules Favre's smile. "The door of this inner room is shrouded in the darkness, and is little noticeable.
If there is any one to be killed, they will content themselves with us." And without imagining that he had just uttered the words of a hero, Durand-Savoyat went back to the antechamber. We resumed our deliberation on the subject of a decree. We were unanimously agreed upon the advantage of an immediate convocation of a New Assembly. But for what date?
"ARTICLE II. The election will take place by Universal Suffrage, according to the formalities determined by the decree of the Provisional Government of March 5, 1848. "Given at Paris, in Permanent Session, December 4, 1851." As I finished signing this decree, Durand-Savoyat entered and whispered to me that a woman had asked for me, and was waiting in the ante-chamber. I went out to her.
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