Let that suffice you now.

I am a herald, a mouthpiece, a voice; no more.

I come to announce to you that since the privileged orders, assembled for the States of Brittany in Rennes, resisted your will--our will--despite the King's plain hint to them, His Majesty has dissolved the States." There was a burst of delirious applause.

Men laughed and shouted, and cries of "Vive le Roi!" rolled forth like thunder.

Andre-Louis waited, and gradually the preternatural gravity of his countenance came to be observed, and to beget the suspicion that there might be more to follow.
Gradually silence was restored, and at last Andre Louis was able to proceed.
"You rejoice too soon.