"To disturb the town! They don't chase any but honest folks! Out yonder are the tulisanes and the gamblers.

Let's set fire to the barracks!" One man was beating himself on the arm and begging for confession.

Plaintive sounds issued from under the overturned benches--it was a poor musician.

The stage was crowded with actors and spectators, all talking at the same time.

There was Chananay dressed as Leonor in _Il Trovatore_, talking in the language of the markets to Ratia in the costume of a schoolmaster; Yeyeng, wrapped in a silk shawl, was clinging to the Prince Villardo; while Balbino and the Moros were exerting themselves to console the more or less injured musicians.