"They are marching in battalions, like soldiers.

I thought I caught sight of some prisoners in their midst." "Prisoners!" cried the terrified bourgeois.
"No doubt," the marquis interrupted in his shrill voice.

"I've heard that the insurgents arrest all persons who are known to have conservative leanings." This information gave a finishing touch to the consternation of the yellow drawing-room.

A few bourgeois got up and stealthily made for the door, reflecting that they had not too much time before them to gain a place of safety.
The announcement of the arrests made by the Republicans appeared to strike Felicite.

She took the marquis aside and asked him: "What do these men do with the people they arrest ?" "Why, they carry them off in their train," Monsieur de Carnavant replied.