Two passers-by extricated us from our difficulty.

One of them said to the other, "The omnibuses are still running on the Boulevards." We profited by this information, and went to look for a Bastille omnibus.
All four of us got in.
I entertained at heart, I repeat, wrongly or rightly, a bitter reproach for the opportunity lost during the morning.

I said to myself that on critical days such moments come, but do not return.

There are two theories of Revolution: to arouse the people, or to let them come of themselves.

The first theory was mine, but, through force of discipline, I had obeyed the second.