Taking the Bastile

t as the pair got nearer the Palais Royale, calling out in a hoarse voice by instinct "Revenge!" men began to appear in doorways, up cellars, out of alleys, from the carriage gateway

the farmer, carryin

ce, where a concourse, drunk with wrath, were holding council and

front of a company, standing under arms, to bar the

rds," answered

the body of the Savoyard which was lifeless now: "ar

hrank back a st

uttered

n dragoons. Did you not hear the charging cry, the shot

undred voices: "the people we

t to the soldiers: "It is cowardice of you

some of the men in the

on, taking three steps towards the point where the protest had risen

est, blunt fellow, my friend, but you are citizens and

o fire on us, unarmed men, that you, the successors of the Guard

uld not," sai

echoed several

d Billet: "To let the Royal Germans cut our t

y at the same time as the gathering began to retir

aching, they heard the

arms," cried

ng down the dead Savoyard, "Lend us

d, as he snatched back the musket which the farmer had torn from his grip. "Bite your cartr

diers, carrying their hands from t

I not bring my old duck-gun along? But one of these pe

a voice, "taking this

handsome fowling-piec

ns rushed into the square, upset

e French Guards came out

the heavy dragoons," he

ed on by the impetus of a charge too violent to check, the Germans wheeled by a half-tur

Billet, "why

ng from him. Anyway, the French Guards carried their muskets to the

officer, coming before the squadron thrown in

ow it, too." So Billet retorted, taking aim

and not citizens who broke and fled at the first shot, pulled round and made off for Vendome Square in the midst of a formidab

ench Guards!" shou

uards of the Coun

"we are given the right nam

" said Pitou, "and it is not

eried Billet, examining the

it, and who wore the Orleans livery. "He thinks

master?" dema

open blind behind which the pr

with us

l for the people,"

Orleans!" said the farmer. "Friends the Duke of

nstant while he bowed three times to the shouting; short

ith's," shouted a voi

al," added some old veterans. "General So

elles, Provost of the Traders, has the keys for

llowed a fraction

or the other of the thr

rallied around Baron Bezenval and

ey followed none of the parties and were le

to, dear Master Billet

r the military Asylum. Still, as we came to town not to fight, but to learn Doctor Gilbert's address. I think we ought to go to Lo

flashed l

ogical to me," obser

kers lying there," said the farmer, pointing to half-a-d

e not mine, but the K

able of wronging a man to the extent of a mustard-seed, went up to the nearest corpse with mu

efensive armor being "confisticatable" like the offensive a

e Royal Germans are com

rse was heard coming

they are return

means of resistance were offered,

be off,"

ged the sabre after him by the scabbard-straps, not know

e a traveling-t

to go over the river to the Invalides but stopped s

s Garden bridge,"

followed Billet: but swords shining half way to the Gardens

goons are everywhere,

are caught," s

usand men are to be caught

orward, slowly, but

left us," said Billet;

soldiers shut

you were right," s

, who had followed

ong was shown in the single wo

wed that it was no less sensible tha

garden-wall, hard to climb over, and the drawbridge railing, almost impossible to force. Billet judged that the position was bad. Still

tion, Pitou;

e end, making a nod to his followers as

down into sheol without grumbling on the length of the road or how the heat increased as they got on. The p

y packed, way was made for the peasants. Catching an idea of the work ahead,

e a long job of this?" asked Pitou w

that ga

as he saw it was about as much farther and the c

beam went on much more rapidly. In fiv

e and all togeth

"This is what the ancient Ro

g, was banged with a terribl

eck this inroad. But at the third swing the gates y

se forward to learn what was the matter, when his men, thinking he was leading a charge, followed him closely. The horses were heated with their recent

et himself be carried away, and a shriek of frightful intensity f

om. The victims went mad with pain whi

e was striking the innocent for the guilty. An old man was sent to the ground. Billet saw this and he uttered a shout. At the same time he took aim with h

the dragoons rushed into the Tuileries Gar

enty of room, dodge

ly reloaded his

u, we have come to t

the pistol fire of a horseman and spilling him out of the

seless bravery is bravado. Come along,

do not know Paris like you do; an

ace until they had distanced the troops advancing by the quays

arapet and jumped down on the embankment r