Raoul instantly went to Florine's house and sent for Blondet.

In the actress's boudoir, with their feet on the fender, Emile and Raoul analyzed the political situation of France in 1834.

On which side lay the best chance of fortune?
They reviewed all parties and all shades of party,--pure republicans, presiding republicans, republicans without a republic, constitutionals without a dynasty, ministerial conservatives, ministerial absolutists; also the Right, the aristocratic Right, the legitimist, henriquinquist Right, and the Carlist Right.

Between the party of resistance and that of action there was no discussion; they might as well have hesitated between life and death.
At this period a flock of newspapers, created to represent all shades of opinion, produced a fearful pell-mell of political principles.

Blondet, the most judicious mind of the day,--judicious for others, never for himself, like some great lawyers unable to manage their own affairs,--was magnificent in such a discussion.