They already began to, insult and annoy the citizens whom they had been sent to defend; nor were they destined to atone, by their subsequent conduct in the face of the enemy, for the brutality with which they treated their friends.

Champagny, however; was ill-disposed to brook their licentiousness.

They had been sent to protect the city and the homes of Antwerp from invasion.

They were not to establish themselves, at every fireside on their first arrival.

There was work enough for them out of doors, and they were to do that work at once.