Thus they walked on for more than two leagues, along dingle paths by the side of interminable ledges and walls.

Now and again Miette accused Silvere of having taken her the wrong way; for, at times--for a quarter of an hour at a stretch--they lost all sight of the surrounding country, seeing above the walls and hedges nothing but long rows of almond-trees whose slender branches showed sharply against the pale sky.
All at once, however, they came out just in front of Orcheres.

Loud cries of joy, the shouting of a crowd, sounded clearly in the limpid air.

The insurrectionary forces were only now entering the town.

Miette and Silvere went in with the stragglers.