There, everybody was more busy, more on the move, on the lookout for suspected houses, leaving the wanderer alone.
Blakeney led Anne Mie towards the Luxembourg Gardens, the great devastated pleasure-ground of the ci-devant tyrants of the people.

The beautiful Anne of Austria, and the Medici before her, Louis XIII, and his gallant musketeers--all have given place to the great cannon-forging industry of this besieged Republic.

France, attacked on every side, is forcing her sons to defend her: persecuted, martyrised, done to death by her, she is still their Mother: La Patrie, who needs their arms against the foreign foe.

England is threatening the north, Prussia and Austria the east.

Admiral Hood's flag is flying on Toulon Arsenal.
The siege of the Republic! And the Republic is fighting for dear life.