But in accepting it I should be usurping an honour that rightly belongs elsewhere.

Who could represent us better, who more deserving to be our representative, to speak to our friends of Nantes with the voice of Rennes, than the champion who once already to-day has so incomparably given utterance to the voice of this great city?
Confer this honour of being your spokesman where it belongs--upon Andre-Louis Moreau." Rising in response to the storm of applause that greeted the proposal, Andre-Louis bowed and forthwith yielded.

"Be it so," he said, simply.
"It is perhaps fitting that I should carry out what I have begun, though I too am of the opinion that Le Chapelier would have been a worthier representative.

I will set out to-night." "You will set out at once, my lad," Le Chapelier informed him, and now revealed what an uncharitable mind might account the true source of his generosity.

"It is not safe after what has happened for you to linger an hour in Rennes.