They went to it for a moment, and then quitted it, being speedily attracted by the mob becoming dense and uttering cries of hunger.
The crowd betook itself from the Hotel-de-Ville to the Jacobins, from the Jacobins to the National Assembly, clamorous for the forfeiture of the crown and the republic.

This popular gathering had no other leader than the uneasiness that excited it.

A spontaneous and unanimous instinct assured it that the Assembly would be found wanting at the hour of great resolutions.

This mob desired to compel it again to seize the opportunity.

Its will was the more potent as it was wholly impossible to trace it to its source--no chief gave it any visible impetus.