CHAPTER XXIII.
The Dead paraded through the Streets to inflame the Populace--The Shops closed--The Duc de Raguse censured--His Supineness--Devotion of the Duc de Guiche to his Sovereign--The Military Dispositions defective--Flag of the Bourbons--Troops in Want of Refreshment-- Destruction of the Royal Emblems--Disgusting Exhibition--Rumours of Fresh Disasters--Opinion of Sir Roger de Coverley--Revolutions the Carnivals of History--Observation of Voltaire--Doctors Pasquier and de Guise--Report of Fire arms--Paucity of Provisions--Female Courage--Domestic Entrenchment--Further Hostilities--Conflicting Rumours--The Sublime and the Ridiculous--Juvenal Intrepidity--Fatality--The Soldiers and the populace--Visit to Madame Craufurd--Barricade in the Rue Verte--Approaching Mob--Safe Arrival in the Rue d'Anjou--Terror of Madame Craufurd--Her Anxiety for her Relatives--Composure of the Marquis d'Aligre--Riotous Assembly in the Rue Verte--Their Conduct towards the Author--Dangerous Symbol of Aristocracy--Arrival at Home, 282..