...hey sent Tallien to seek out a boy lieutenant,--the shadow of an officer,--so thin and pallid that, when he was placed on the stand before them, the President of the Assembly, fearful, if the fate of France rested on the shrunken form, the ashy cheek before him, that all hope was gone, asked, Young man, can you protect the Assembly? And the stern lips of the Corsican boy parted only to reply, I alway...