He could not subscribe to the doctrine, that might was right.
He watched the fugitives a long time.

They were crowding the railway stations, and they were departing by motor, by cart and on foot.

Many of the poorer people, both men and women, carried packs on their backs.

The boulevards and the streets were filled with the retreating masses.
It was an amazing and stupefying sight, the abandonment by its inhabitants of a great city, a city in many ways the first in the world, and it gave John a mighty shock.

He had been there with his uncle and Mr.Anson in the spring, and he had seen nothing but peace and brightness.