Nobody expected anything, not because the secret had been kept but because it met with nothing but unbelievers.

Nobody believed in a revolution, and from this fact we may conclude that nobody desired one.
About two o'clock the deputies began to pass, few and unnoticed, through the side-door of the palace.

At three o'clock a few groups of badly dressed men had formed.

At half past three black masses coming from the adjacent streets spread over Revolution Square.

This vast expanse was soon covered by an ocean of soft hats, and the crowd of demonstrators, continually increased by sight-seers, having crossed the bridge, struck its dark wave against the walls of the legislative enclosure.