For the first time they learned that such houses as Taylor's were under police supervision, and that creatures like Wood and Parker were classified and watched.

They had imagined that in "the home of liberty" such practices passed unnoticed.

It came as a shock to their preconceived ideas that the police in London knew a great many things which they were not supposed to concern themselves with, and this unwelcome glare of light drove the vicious forth in wild haste.
Never was Paris so crowded with members of the English governing classes; here was to be seen a famous ex-Minister; there the fine face of the president of a Royal society; at one table in the Cafe de la Paix, a millionaire recently ennobled, and celebrated for his exquisite taste in art; opposite to him a famous general.

It was even said that a celebrated English actor took a return ticket for three or four days to Paris, just to be in the fashion.

The mummer returned quickly; but the majority of the migrants stayed abroad for some time.
The wind of terror which had swept them across the Channel opposed their return, and they scattered over the Continent from Naples to Monte Carlo and from Palermo to Seville under all sorts of pretexts.
The gravest result of the magistrate's refusal to accept bail was purely personal.