So, then, I shall have the pleasure of seeing you in the morning, shall I not?
Yes?
Good night, gentlemen!" He clicked his neat heels so that his spurs jangled, and bowed us out into the dark.

The question of securing lodgings loomed large and imminent before us.

Officers filled the few small inns and hotels; soldiers, as we could see, were quartered thickly in all the houses in sight; and already the inhabitants were locking their doors and dousing their lights in accordance with an order from a source that was not to be disobeyed.

Nine out of ten houses about the square were now but black oblongs rising against the gray sky.

We had nowhere to go; and yet if we did not go somewhere, and that pretty soon, the patrols would undoubtedly take unpleasant cognizance of our presence.