He had measured with an eye of judgment, the rapid declivity down which the love of popular favour had impelled him.

Like Mirabeau, he wished to pause when it was too late.

Henceforth, remaining on the brink of events, he was besieged with terror and remorse.

If his intrepid heart did not tremble for himself, the sympathy he experienced for the queen and royal family urged him to give the king advice which had but one fault,--it was impossible now to follow it.
These consultations, held at Adrien Duport's, the friend of Barnave and the oracle of the party, only served to embarrass the mind of the king with another element of hesitation.

La Fayette and his friends also added their imperious counsel.