"Behind the skirts of Thespis," said Scaramouche.
"I don't understand."
"I didn't intend that you should. What of yourself, Isaac? And what of the world which seems to have been standing still of late?"
"Standing still!" Le Chapelier laughed. "But where have you been, then? Standing still!" He pointed across the square to a cafe under the shadow of the gloomy prison. "Let us go and drink a bavaroise. You are of all men the man we want, the man we have been seeking everywhere, and-behold!-you drop from the skies into my path."
They crossed the square and entered the cafe.
"So you think the world has been standing still! Dieu de Dieu! I suppose you haven't heard of the royal order for the convocation of the States General, or the terms of them-that we are to have what we demanded, what you demanded for us here in Nantes! You haven't heard that the order has gone forth for the primary elections-the elections of the electors.
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