Every one is unarmed.

The infantry is only two paces from us, and see, here comes the artillery." I looked round; in truth several pieces of cannon emerged at a quick trot from the Rue de Bondy, behind the Chateau d'Eau.
The advice to abstain, given by Charamaule, made a deep impression on me.

Coming from such a man, and one so dauntless, it was certainly not to be distrusted.

Besides, I felt myself bound by the deliberation which had just taken place at the meeting in the Rue Blanche.
I shrank before the responsibility which I should have incurred.

To have taken advantage of such a moment might have been victory, it might also have been a massacre.