Some soldiers, in their shirt-sleeves and wearing foraging caps, busy with fatigue duty, went hither and thither amongst the prisoners.
First M.Grimault and then M.Antony Thouret instituted a roll-call.

The Representatives made a ring around them.

Lherbette said laughingly, "This just suits the barracks.

We look like sergeant-majors who have come to report." They called over the seven hundred and fifty names of the Representatives.

To each name they answered "Absent" or "Present," and the secretary jotted down with a pencil those who were present.