And look, you can see it yet.

This light tells me that two or three hundred retired officers will come to open the gates of the city for us as soon as we make our appearance." "And after that! If you take Montaignac, what will you do then?
Do you suppose that the English will give you back your Emperor?
Is not Napoleon II.

the prisoner of the Austrians?
Have you forgotten that the allied sovereigns have left one hundred and fifty thousand soldiers within a day's march of Paris ?" Sullen murmurs were heard among Lacheneur's followers.
"But all this is nothing," continued the baron.

"The chief danger lies in the fact that there are as many traitors as dupes in an undertaking of this sort." "Whom do you call dupes, Monsieur ?" "All those who take their illusions for realities, as you have done; all those who, because they desire anything very much, really believe that it will come to pass.

Do you really suppose that neither the Duc de Sairmeuse nor the Marquis de Courtornieu has been warned of it ?" Lacheneur shrugged his shoulders.
"Who could have warned them ?" But his tranquillity was feigned; the look which he cast upon Jean proved it.
And it was in the coldest possible tone that he added: "It is probable that at this very hour the duke and the marquis are in the power of our friends." The cure now attempted to join his efforts to those of the baron.
"You will not go, Lacheneur," he said.