If so, Paris would be in a turmoil from end to end, and the gates closed.

I have thought it all over, again and again; and while your worship has been attending the entertainments, I have been walking about Paris.
"If it is at night I should say we had best make for the river, take a boat and drift down; or else make for the walls, and lower ourselves by a rope from them.

If it is in the day we could not do that; and I have found a hovel, at present untenanted, close to the walls, and we could wait there until night." "You will end by making me believe this, Pierre," Philip said angrily, as he again walked up and down the room, with impatient steps.

"If you had a shadow of foundation for what you say, even a rumour that you had picked up in the street, I would go straight to the Admiral.

But how could I go and say: "'My servant, who is a faithful fellow, has taken it into his head that there is danger from an attack on us by the mob.' "What think you the Admiral would say to that?
He would say that it was next door to treason to imagine such things, and that if men were to act upon such fancies as these, they would be fit only for hospitals for the insane.