"Let us put on our sashes, and let us all go down in a procession, two by two, into the Place de la Madeleine. You can see that Colonel before that large flight of steps, with his regiment in battle array; we will go to him, and there, before his soldiers, I will summon him to come over to the side of duty, and to restore his regiment to the Republic. If he refuses ..."
Charamaule took his two pistols in his hands.
"... I will blow out his brains."
"Charamaule," said I, "I will be by your side."
"I knew that well," Charamaule said to me.
He added,—
"This explosion will awaken the people."
"But," several cried out, "suppose it does not awaken them?"
"We shall die."
"I am on your side," said I to him.