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"President, you know what is going on? How is it that the Assembly has
not yet been convened?"
M. Dupin halted, and answered, with a shrug which was habitual with him,--
"
There is nothing to be done."
And he resumed his walk.
"
It is enough," said M. de Rességuier.
It is too much," said Eugène Sue.
"
All the Representatives left the room.
In the meantime the Pont de la Concorde became covered with troops.
Among them General Vast-Vimeux, lean, old, and little; his lank white
hair plastered over his temples, in full uniform, with his laced hat on
his head. He was laden with two huge epaulets, and displayed his scarf,
not that of a Representative, but of a general, which scarf, being too
long, trailed on the ground. He crossed the bridge on foot, shouting to
the soldiers inarticulate cries of enthusiasm for the Empire and the
coup d'état. Such figures as these were seen in 1814. Only instead of
wearing a large tri-colored, cockade, they wore a large white cockade.
In the main the same phenomenon; old men crying, "Long live the Past!"
Almost at the same moment M. de Larochejaquelein crossed the Place de la
Concorde, surrounded by a hundred men in blouses, who followed him in
silence, and with an air of curiosity. Numerous regiments of cavalry
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