Aurélie looked, and as she looked she uttered a cry of joy and surprise. Coster, who had come out from the boudoir on tiptoe, was standing behind her, with his arm held out to her.
"Citizeness," he said, "will you do me the honor to accept my arm and let me conduct you to the dining-room?"
"But how have you done it? What did you do? What did you devise?"
"I will tell you while we are eating citizen Barras's supper," said Coster de Saint-Victor.
[CHAPTER XIII]
THE ELEVENTH VENDÉMIAIRE
One of the resolutions passed at the royalist agency in the Rue des Postes, after Cadoudal's departure on the evening to which we have referred, was that a meeting should be held the following evening at the Théâtre of the Odéon.
During the evening, as we have seen, a crowd of men, led by some fifty of the members of the jeunesse dorée, had repaired to the hall of the Convention, but their chief, Coster de Saint-Victor, having disappeared as completely as if he had vanished through some trap-door, the mob and the muscadins beat in vain against the doors of the Convention, whose members had been forewarned by Barras of the attack which was about to be made upon them.