However, Roudier cried out from below that all was right.

And Granoux then shut the window again, beaming with joy.

The fact of the matter was, that Rougon's shot had aroused the sleepers, who had promptly surrendered, seeing that resistance was impossible.

Then, however, three of Roudier's men, in their blind haste to get the business over, had discharged their firearms in the air, as a sort of answer to the report from above, without knowing quite why they did so.
It frequently happens that guns go off of their own accord when they are in the hands of cowards.
And now, in the room upstairs, Rougon ordered Macquart's hands to be bound with the bands of the large green curtains which hung at the windows.

At this, Macquart, wild with rage, broke into scornful jeers.
"All right; go on," he muttered.