But to return to the narrative.
"And you really wish a sermon from me, old comrades, with patience as the text?"
"Aye—aye—aye!" exclaimed all.
"Suppose I add to it this line I find on the paper before me on the table, that our good Marrast had just written as the text for a paragraph which would probably have cost him another fine and imprisonment, had the paragraph been completed and published?"
"Read! read!" cried Rollin.
"With your permission, Armand?"
"Certainly," replied the editor, still continuing his promenade.
"'Again the House of Orléans triumphs!'" read Louis Blanc, aloud.
"And is it not true—the accursed tyrants?" vociferated Rollin.