but we only have to charge with our bayonets to make them run like rabbits!" The attitude of those going to meet death was in sharp contrast to the panic and doubt of those who were deserting Paris.

An old and much-decorated gentleman, type of a jubilee functionary, kept questioning Desnoyers whenever the train started on again--"Do you believe that they will get as far as Tours ?" Before receiving his reply, he would fall asleep.

Brutish sleep was marching down the aisles with leaden feet.

At every junction, the old man would start up and suddenly ask, "Do you believe that we will get as far as Bordeaux ?".

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