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SOON after noon on the following day Vidal presented himself at the Tuileries on the business with which his general had charged him, and there he fell into the grave error of not only answering idle questions concerning the affair that had brought him to Paris, bur, further, of answering them truthfully.
Had he but used discreetness none would have known of it until he had delivered himself at the bar of the assembly to the representatives of the nation.