[The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of a Crime CHAPTER XVIII 16/22
Some of them went out on the Quai Jemmapes, to wait there and gain information about them.
In the room there was a sound of confused talking the members of the Committee, Madier de Montjau, Jules Favre, and Carnot, withdrew, and sent word to me by Charamaule that they were going to No. 10, Rue des Moulins, to the house of the ex-Constituent Landrin, in the division of the 5th Legion, to deliberate more at their ease, and they begged me to join them.
But I thought I should do better to remain.
I had placed myself at the disposal of the probable movement of the Faubourg St.Marceau.I awaited the notice of it through Auguste.
It was most important that I should not go too far away; besides, it was possible that if I went away, the Representatives of the Left, no longing seeing a member of the committee amongst them, would disperse without taking any resolution, and I saw in this more than one disadvantage. Time passed, no Proclamations.
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