"Day by day they got thinner and more like apes, and they did come down to the edge of the pontoons where we did keep them, and they howled with rage and pain.

The first few days their howls went over the whole city, but after a week our sentries on the bank could not hear them, so weak they had fallen." "And they died!" I exclaimed.
"They held out a very long time.

Austrian Grenadiers they were, of the corps of Starowitz, fine stout men as big as your friend of yesterday; but when the town fell there were but four hundred alive, and a man could lift them three at a time as if they were little monkeys.

It was a pity.

Ah! my friend, you will do me the honours with madame and with mademoiselle." It was my mother and Edie who had come into the kitchen.