He's here." Some one swore jovially and said: "They've begun to fear our fellows, after all, haven't they?
The soldiers have come and the governor----" "Dear boys!" throbbed in the breast of the mother.

But the words around her sounded dead and cold.

She hastened her steps to get away from these people, and it was not difficult for her to outstrip their lurching gait.
Suddenly the head of the crowd, as it were, bumped against something; its body swung backward with an alarming, low hum.

The song trembled, then flowed on more rapidly and louder; but again the dense wave of sounds hesitated in its forward course.

Voices fell out of the chorus one after the other.