A commission would have been instantly named for the special revision of the articles alluded to.

This commission would have made its report before the end of the meeting of the chambers; and the three hundred votes of Malouet, united to the constitutional votes of Barnave, would have assured to the monarchical amendments the majority which was to restore royalty.
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But the members of the right refused to give their unanimous concurrence to this plan.

"To amend the constitution was to sanction revolt.

To unite themselves with the factious, was to become factious themselves.
To restore royalty by the hands of a Barnave, was to degrade the king even to gratitude towards a member of a faction.

Their hopes had not fallen so low that it was thus they had but the option of accepting a character in a comedy of startled revolutionists.