They felt that the contempt was too great, and allotted him two sentinels.
At half-past seven, fifteen or twenty Representatives, among whom were MM.

Eugene Sue, Joret, de Resseguier, and de Talhouet, met together in M.Dupin's room.

They also had vainly argued with M.Dupin.In the recess of a window a clever member of the Majority, M.Desmousseaux de Givre, who was a little deaf and exceedingly exasperated, almost quarrelled with a Representative of the Right like himself whom he wrongly supposed to be favorable to the _coup d'etat_.
M.Dupin, apart from the group of Representatives, alone dressed in black, his hands behind his back, his head sunk on his breast, walked up and down before the fire-place, where a large fire was burning.

In his own room, and in his very presence, they were talking loudly about himself, yet he seemed not to hear.
Two members of the Left came in, Benoit (du Rhone), and Crestin.

Crestin entered the room, went straight up to M.Dupin, and said to him, "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 Resseguier.
"It is too much," said Eugene 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.