Fearing to excite the jealousy of the national guard and the troops, these gentlemen concealed themselves in the remote apartments of the palace, ready rather to die than to combat: they wore no uniform, and their arms were concealed under their coats--hence the name by which they were pointed out to the people of _Chevaliers du poignard_.

Arriving secretly from their provinces to offer their services to the king unknown to each other; and only furnished with a card of entrance to the palace, they hastened thither whenever there was danger.

They should have been ten thousand, and were but two hundred--the last reserve of fidelity; but they did their duty without counting their number, and avenged the French nobility for the faults and the desertion of the emigration.
XVII.
The mob, on quitting the Assembly, had marched in close columns to the Carrousel.

Santerre and Alexandre, at the head of their battalions, directed the movement.

A compact mass of the insurgents, followed by the Rue St.Honore.The other branches of the populace, cut off from the main body, thronged the courts of the Manege and the Feuillants, and tried to make room for themselves by issuing violently by one of the avenues which communicated with the garden from these courts.