[The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of a Crime CHAPTER XIX 10/23
Our hopes died away one after another.
Nevertheless, all the more reason, in my opinion, to astonish and awaken Paris by an extraordinary spectacle, by a daring act of life and collective power on the part of the Representatives of the Left, by the daring of an immense devotion. It will be seen later on what a combination of accidental circumstances prevented this idea from being realized as I then purposed.
The Representatives have done their whole duty.
Providence perhaps has not done all on its side.
Be it as it may, supposing that we were not at once carried off by some nocturnal and immediate combat, and that at the hour at which I was speaking we had still a "to-morrow," I felt the necessity of fixing every eye upon the course which should be adopted on the day which was about to follow .-- I spoke. I began by completely unveiling the situation.
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