to, and evidently thinks himself fortunate to escape sleeping there that night.--After this, it is certain that he will not again demand the privilege of speaking, and that his colleagues will remain quiet; and all this is the more likely * because the revolutionary tribunal holds permanent sessions under their eyes, * because the guillotine is set up and in operation on the "Place de la Révolution;" * because a recent act of the Commune enjoins on the police "the most active surveillance" and "constant patrols" by the armed force; * because, from the first to the fourth of August, the barriers are closed; * because, on the 2nd of August, a raid into three of the theaters puts five hundred young men in the lock-up,[1127] so the discontented soon discover, if there are any, that this is not the time or the place to protest. As to the others, already Jacobin, the faction takes it upon itself to render them still more so.--Lost in the immensity of Paris, all these provincials require moral as well as physical guides; it agrees to exercise toward them "hospitality in all its plenitude, the sweetest of Republican virtues."[1128] Hence, ninety-six sans-culottes, selected from among the sections, wait on them at the Mayoralty to serve as their correspondents, and perhaps as their guarantees, and certainly as pilots * to give them lodging-tickets, * to escort and install them, * to indoctrinate them, as formerly with the federates of July, 1792, * to prevent their getting into bad company, * to introduce them into all the exciting meetings, * to see that their ardent patriotism quickly rises to the proper temperature of Parisian Jacobinism.[1129]