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And his great desire not to halt until, with his family, he had reached an absolutely secure refuge, made him accept as oracles all the vague responses.
At daybreak, they saw the Territorialists guarding the roads.

They were armed with old muskets, and were wearing the red kepis as their only military distinction.

They were following the opposite course of the military trains.
In the station at Bordeaux, the civilian crowds struggling to get out or to enter other cars, were mingling with the troops.

The trumpets were incessantly sounding their brazen notes, calling the soldiers together.
Many were men of darkest coloring, natives with wide gray breeches and red caps above their black or bronzed faces.
Julio saw a train bearing wounded from the battles of Flanders and Lorraine.