He felt a presentiment that Pierre could not have given up the game at the decisive moment.

At last he approached Felicite, who was yawning: "Show us the place where your husband is hidden," he said to her, "and I promise no harm shall be done to him." "I have told you the truth," she replied impatiently.

"I can't deliver my husband to you, as he's not here.

You have searched everywhere, haven't you?
Then leave me alone now." Macquart, exasperated by her composure, was just going to strike her, when a rumbling noise arose from the street.

It was the column of insurgents entering the Rue de la Banne.
He then had to leave the yellow drawing-room, after shaking his fist at his sister-in-law, calling her an old jade, and threatening that he would soon return.