Meanwhile interested spectators became visible at windows, while under the trees the human flood grew every minute more dense, till it ran in one enormous stream from the Madeleine to the Bastille.

Carriages rolled slowly along.

A roaring sound went up from this compact and as yet inarticulate mass.

Each member of it had come out, impelled by the desire to form a crowd, and was now trampling along, steeping himself in the pervading fever.

But a great movement caused the mob to flow asunder.