She looks at the marching multitude with beaming curiosity.

Her littleness embraces that immensity, because it is all a part of Order.

A peasant who has stuck to his work in spite of the festival and is bent over the deep shadows of his field, raises himself from the earth which is so like him, and turns towards the golden sun the shining monstrance of his face.
* * * * * * But what is this--this sort of madman, who stands in the middle of the road and looks as if, all by himself, he would bar the crowd's passage?
We recognize Brisbille, swaying tipsily in the twilight.

There is an eddy and a muttering in the flow.
"D'you want to know where all that's leading you ?" he roars, and nothing more can be heard but his voice.

"It's leading you to hell! It's the old rotten society, with the profiteering of all them that can, and the stupidity of the rest! To hell, I tell you! To-morrow look out for yourselves! To-morrow!" A woman's voice cries from out of the shadows, in a sort of scuffle, "Be quiet, wicked man! You've no right to frighten folks!" But the drunkard continues to shout full-throated, "To-morrow! To-morrow! D'you think things will always go on like that?
You're fit for killing! To hell!" Some people are impressed and disappear into the evening.