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In that case will you consent to print it?"
Immediately."
"
He continued,--
"Having no longer any presses, as I have told you, I can only print it
as a handbill, and with the brush. It takes a long time, but by eight
o'clock this evening you shall have five hundred copies."
"And," continued I, "you persist in refusing to print the appeal to
arms?"
"I do persist."
A second copy was made of the decree, which Emile de Girardin took away
with him. The deliberation was resumed. At each moment Representatives
came in and brought items of news: Amiens in insurrection--Rheims and
Rouen in motion, and marching on Paris--General Canrobert resisting the
coup d'état--General Castellane hesitating--the Minister of the United
States demanding his passports. We placed little faith in these rumors,
and facts proved that we were right.
Meanwhile Jules Favre had drawn up the following decree, which he
proposed, and which was immediately adopted:--
"DECREE.
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