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"The author of 'The Laborer of Lyons' must be a man of distinguished literary genius," was the reply. "Better than all," said Flocon, "he is devoted heart and soul to the good cause." "Such devotedness to a cause I never witnessed," said Marrast. "He puts us all to the blush. With him it appears a matter of direct individual interest. He is perfectly untiring. He is like one impelled by his fate.
M. Armand Marrast, the editor-in-chief of the National, took with him three notorious Republicans, M. Bastide, M. Hetzel, the publisher, and M. Bocage, the eminent comedian who created the role of Didier in "Marion de Lorme." All four went to the Chamber of Deputies. They found Lamartine there and held a conference with him in one of the offices.
"Most true," observed Louis Blanc; "and so far from intrusion do we view your arrival that we can but consider it most opportune that we have the privilege of referring to you a question on which, between us, especially between our friend Marrast and myself, there seems some little diversity of sentiment."
"Few deputies were there," continued Flocon. "The opposition benches were vacant. Guizot was there early, pale and troubled, but stern and unbending. All the Ministers followed him." "What was discussed?" asked Marrast. "The Bordeaux Bank Bill." "Ah!" cried Ledru Rollin again. "Yes," continued Flocon, "until five o'clock that bill was discussed.
It presided over the session of the Committee which drew up the Constitution of the second Republic. Armand Marrast, the most important of the men who framed that document, based the measure of universal suffrage upon "the invisible law which rules societies," the law of progress which has been so long denied but which is rooted in the nature of man.
Marrast, former editor-in-chief of the "National", became permanent President of the Constitutional National Assembly, and the Secretaryship of State, together with all the other important posts, devolved upon the pure republicans.
Hundreds of the people perished, and our friend was imprisoned and fined for taking part in a movement, which he had in vain attempted to quell, and then, with the certainty of defeat, had joined, rather than desert the people who trusted and relied on him." "A noble act!" cried Marrast, as he paced the room. Albert quietly smiled, but otherwise his countenance remained unmoved.
A bullet smashed a window-pane above our heads. "What is the matter now?" exclaimed Lamartine in sorrowful tones. M. Armand Marrast and M. Marie went out to see what was going on. "Ah! my friend," continued Lamartine, "how heavy is this revolutionary power to bear! One has to assume such weighty and such sudden responsibilities before one's conscience and in presence of history!
The funeral column reaches the corner of the Boulevard and the Rue Lepelletier the death-hymn rises to a yell of fury the officer of the National Guard turns the head of the column to the right before it is an edifice conspicuous by its illumination of huge and blood-red lamps it is the office of "Le National" the crowd halts one long loud shriek of "Vengeance!" goes up it is succeeded by the thrilling notes of the Marseillaise from ten thousands lips, and "Marrast!
To hazard that cause, by the sacrifice of those lives, or by rashly and unwisely attempting its advancement, makes us violators of our vows, quite as much in reality as if we had become traitors." "But the instances you cite are those only of individual rashness, Louis, and not of the people, or of their leaders acting in concert," remarked Marrast.
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