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Moreover, some of them had heard the extraordinary intelligence

beyond the valley, and had witnessed and related the joy of the

people, the new feeling with which the Unknown was regarded by

them, the veneration which had succeeded their former

hatred-their former terror. They beheld the man whom they had

never regarded without trembling, even when they themselves

constituted, to a great degree, his strength; they beheld him

now, the wonder, the idol of the multitude,-still elevated above

all others, in a different manner, no doubt, but in one not less

imposing,-always above the world, always the first. They were

confounded, and each was doubtful of the course he should pursue.