Well-informed people even named the exact spot on the high road where the soldiers had been butchered.
At four o'clock Rougon, followed by Granoux, again repaired to the Valqueyras mansion.

Small bands, on their way to join the insurgents at Orcheres, still passed along in the distance, through the valley of the Viorne.

Throughout the day urchins climbed the ramparts, and bourgeois came to peep through the loopholes.

These volunteer sentinels kept up the terror by counting the various bands, which were taken for so many strong battalions.

The timorous population fancied it could see from the battlements the preparations for some universal massacre.