I suppose about ten people are hit every twenty-four hours.

Now as above fifty people die every day in Paris of bronchitis, there is far more danger from the latter than from the batteries of the disciples of Geist outside.

It is not worse to die by a bomb than of a cold.

Indeed I am by no means sure that of two evils the latter is not the least; yet a person being suddenly struck down in the streets of a capital by a piece of iron from a cannon will always produce a more startling effect upon the mind than a rise in the bills of mortality from natural causes.

Those who are out of the reach of the Prussian guns are becoming accustomed to the bombardment.