And most of these improvised soldiers carried guns, probably carbines and old muskets of the National Guard.
"I don't know those," said Silvere.

"The man on horseback must be the chief I've heard spoken of.

He brought with him the contingents from Faverolles and the neighbouring villages.

The whole column ought to be equipped in the same manner." He had no time to take breath.

"Ah! see, here are the country people!" he suddenly cried.
Small groups of ten or twenty men at the most were now advancing behind the men of Faverolles.