When Valmond was told, he listened with a better understanding.
All that Lajeunesse had announced came to pass.

The review and march and show were goodly, after their kind; and, by dint of money and wine, the enthusiasm was greater than ever it had been; for it was joined to the pathos of the expected departure.

The Cure and the avocat kept within doors; for they had talked together, and now that the day of fate was at hand, and sons, brothers, fathers, were to go off on this far crusade, a new spirit suddenly thrust itself in, and made them sad and anxious.
Monsieur De la Riviere was gloomy.

Medallion was the one comfortable, cool person in the parish.

It had been his conviction that something would occur to stop the whole business at the critical moment.