"That same day," says M. Louis Blanc, "and not far from the Hôtel de Ville, a wherry moored at the foot of the Morgue and surmounted by a black flag, received corpses which were lowered in barrows. These corpses were piled up in heaps and covered with straw; and the crowd, which had gathered along the parapets of the Seine, looked on in silence[296]." Speaking of the States of the League and the making of a king, Palma-Cayet[297] exclaims: "I pray you to picture to yourselves what answer could have made that little goodman Master Matthieu Delaunay and M. Boucher, curate of Saint-Benoît, and any other of that condition to one who should have told them that they must be employed to instal a king in France to their fancy?... True Frenchmen have always held in contempt that form of electing kings, which makes them masters and servants together." Philip had not come to the end of his trials; he had many more hands to shake, many more embraces to receive: he still had to blow very many kisses, to bow very low to the passers-by, to humour the crowd by coming many times on the balcony of the Tuileries to sing the Marseillaise. A certain number of Republicans had met, on the morning of the 31st, at the office of the _National_: when they knew that the Duc d'Orléans had been appointed Lieutenant-general of the Kingdom, they wished to know the opinions of the man destined to become King in spite of them. They were taken to the Palais-Royal by M. Thiers: there were Messieurs Bastide, Thomas, Joubert[298], Cavaignac[299], Marchais, Degousée[300], and Guinard. The Prince at first said many fine things to them about liberty: "You are not King yet," retorted Bastide; "listen to the truth: soon you will have no lack of flatterers." "Your father," added Cavaignac, "was a regicide like mine; that separates you a little from the others." [Sidenote: Embraces La Fayette.] Followed mutual congratulations on the regicide, accompanied nevertheless by a judicious remark from Philip, to the effect that there are things which we should remember in order not to imitate them. Some Republicans who were not at the meeting at the _National_ entered. M. Trélat said to Philip: "The people is the master; your functions are provisional; the people must express its wish: do you consult it, yes or no?" M. Thiers interrupted this dangerous speech by tapping M. Thomas on the shoulder and saying: "Monseigneur, have we not a fine colonel here?" "That is true," answered Louis-Philippe. "What is he talking about?" they exclaimed. "Does he take us for a band that has come to sell itself?" And on every side rose contradictory phrases: "It's a tower of Babel! And that's what they call a Citizen King! The Republic? You had better govern with Republicans!" And M. Thiers exclaiming: "Here's a fine embassy I've undertaken!"