To the astonishment of Sieyes, Napoleon entered readily and largely upon such topics, showed perfect familiarity with them in their minutest details, and suggested resolutions which it was impossible not to approve.

"Gentlemen," said the Abbe, on reaching his own house, where Talleyrand and the others expected him--and it is easy so imagine the sensations with which Sieyes spoke the words, and Talleyrand heard them--"Gentlemen, I perceive that you have got a master.

Buonaparte can do, and will do, everything himself.

But" (he added, after a pause) "it is better to submit than to protract dissension for ever." Buonaparte sent word next morning to _Gohier_ and _Moulins_ that they were at liberty.

These ex-Directors were in haste to seclude themselves from public view; and the new ruler took possession the same evening of the Palace of the Luxembourg.
[Footnote 31: Crabbe.].