He held out his hand: “Ah! good morning, Hugo!”
Here is the dialogue that we engaged in, every word of which is still fresh in my memory:
“What is the situation, Lamartine?”
“We are done for!”
“What do you mean by that?”
“I mean that in a quarter of an hour from now the Assembly will be invaded.”
(Even at that moment a column of insurgents was coming down the Rue de Lille. A timely charge of cavalry dispersed it.)
“Nonsense! What about the troops?”
“There are no troops!”
“But you said on Wednesday, and yesterday repeated, that you had sixty thousand men at your disposal.”