So unusual a display of energy, however, did not last long.

A few persons in citizens' clothes darted forward from among the crowd, and secured the stranger; while the Swiss, seeing who they were, resumed their erect, rigid, and ornamental attitude.

The Pope found no longer any obstacle, and resumed his descent.

For a moment the stranger had created a wide-spread consternation in the breasts of all the different and very numerous classes of men who composed that crowd.

The arrest was the signal for a murmur of voices, among which the ladies heard those of the knot of Englishmen who stood near.
"It's some Garibaldian," said they.
And this was the general sentiment.
Several hours after this they were at home, and a caller was announced.