They unveiled their repentance and constitutional inclinations.

These conversations, marred in the carriage by the presence of the other commissioner and the eyes of the people, had been stealthily and more intimately renewed in the meetings which the royal family nightly held.
Mysterious political correspondences and secret interviews in the Tuileries were contrived.

Barnave, the inflexible partisan, reached Paris a devoted man.

The nocturnal conference of Mirabeau with the queen, in the park of Saint Cloud, was ambitioned by his rival; but Mirabeau sold, Barnave gave, himself.

Heaps of gold bought the man of genius; a glance seduced the man of sentiment.
IV.
Barnave had found Duport and the Lameths, his friends, in the most monarchical moods, but from other motives than his own.