Then began the march past.
And now it was that one of those inspirations came to him which engrave themselves forever on the hearts of soldiers.

As the flags of the 30th, the 96th, and the 33d demi-brigades were borne past him, and he saw that, of those banners, there remained but a stick and a few rags, riddled with balls and blackened with powder, he took his hat from his head and bowed.
Then, when the march was over, he dismounted from his horse, and, with a firm step, he walked up the grand stairway of the Valois and the Bourbons.
That night, when he was alone with Bourrienne, the latter asked: "Well, general, are you satisfied ?" "Yes," replied Bonaparte, dreamily, "everything went off nicely, didn't it ?" "Wonderfully well." "I saw you standing near Madame Bonaparte at the ground-floor window of the Pavilion of Flora." "I saw you, too, general; you were reading the inscription on the arch of the Carrousel." "Yes," said Bonaparte, "'August 10,1792.

Royalty is abolished in France, and shall never rise again.'" "Shall I have it removed ?" asked Bourrienne.
"Useless," replied the First Consul, "it will fall of itself." Then, with a sigh, he added: "Bourrienne, do you know whom I missed to-day ?" "No, general." "Roland.

What the devil is he doing that he doesn't give me any news of himself ?" We are about to see what Roland was doing..