"Your Representatives are being arrested, you have not received your arms to break the laws!" A sergeant was wearing a brand-new cross.

"Have you been given the cross for this ?" The sergeant answered, "We only know one master." "I note your number," continued M.Baze.

"You are a dishonored regiment." The soldiers listened with a stolid air, and seemed still asleep.

Commissary Primorin said to them, "Do not answer, this has nothing to do with you." They led the Questor across the courtyard to the guard-house at the Porte Noire.
This was the name which was given to a little door contrived under the vault opposite the treasury of the Assembly, and which opened upon the Rue de Bourgogne, facing the Rue de Lille.
Several sentries were placed at the door of the guard-house, and at the top of the flight of steps which led thither, M.Baze being left there in charge of three _sergents de ville_.

Several soldiers, without their weapons, and in their shirt-sleeves, came in and out.