No other than General Hedouville, a worthy man, but I have only to look him in the face to make him lower his eyes.

My glance must have been blasting! As the result, Barras came to my bedside at eight o'clock, to excuse himself as best he could for the nonsense he talked the night before, and admitted that I alone could save the Republic, and placed himself at my disposal, to do what I wished, assume any role I might assign him, begging me to promise that if I had any plan in my head I would count on him--yes, on him; and he would be true to the crack of doom." "And yet," said Talleyrand, unable to resist a play upon words, "doom is not a word with which to conjure liberty." Bonaparte glanced at the ex-bishop.
"Yes, I know that Barras is your friend, the friend of Fouche and Real; but he is not mine, and I shall prove it to him.

Go back to Lebrun and Cambaceres, Bruix, and let them make their own bargain." Then, looking at his watch and frowning, he added: "It seems to me that Moreau keeps us waiting." So saying, he turned to the group which surrounded Talma.

The two diplomatists watched him.

Then Admiral Bruix asked in a low voice: "What do you say, my dear Maurice, to such sentiments toward the man who picked him out, a mere lieutenant, at the siege of Toulon, who trusted him to defend the Convention on the 13th Vendemiaire, and who named him, when only twenty-six, General-in-Chief of the Army in Italy ?" "I say, my dear admiral," replied M.de Talleyrand, with his pallid mocking smile, "that some services are so great that ingratitude alone can repay them." At that moment the door opened and General Moreau was announced.