But when it knows what we want it will not follow us.

If we let it be seen that we wish to destroy democratic government and restore the Dragon's crest, who will be our partisans?
Only the butcher-boys and the little shopkeepers of Alca.

And could we even count on them to the end?
They are dissatisfied, but at the bottom of their hearts they are Republicans.

They are more anxious to sell their cursed wares than to see Crucho again.

If we act openly we shall only cause alarm.
"To make people sympathise with us and follow us we must make them believe that we want, not to overthrow the Republic, but, on the contrary, to restore it, to cleanse, to purify, to embellish, to adorn, to beautify, and to ornament it, to render it, in a word, glorious and attractive.