----, and others who have mingled with the crowd, tell me that they have beheld repeated examples of soldiers throwing down their arms, to embrace those who came to seduce them with the most irresistible of all seductions--refreshment, when they were nearly exhausted by the want of it.
I shall begin to consider myself half a heroine, after an exploit I performed this evening.

The men who shared our dinner having gone out to observe what was passing, I determined, _coute que coute_, to pay a visit to my friend Madame Craufurd.

I attired myself as simply as possible, and, attended by a _valet de pied_, sallied forth.

Having traversed the short distance that separates this house from the Rue St.-Honore, I arrived at the barricade erected in front of the entrance to the Rue Verte, and I confess this obstacle seemed to me, for the first minute or two that I contemplated it, insurmountable.

My servant, too, expressed his belief of the difficulty, if not impossibility, of climbing over this mountain of loose stones, that I felt half disposed to retrace my steps.
The shouts of a mob approaching along the Rue St.-Honore quickly decided me on the course to pursue; I clambered up as best I could, not without considerable risk; nor was the danger and difficulty of the descent on the other side of this rude pyramid less imminent.