Newspaper articles and Government proclamations tell the population every day that they only have to persevere in order ultimately to triumph.

If the end must come, it is difficult to see how it will come.

I have asked many intelligent persons what they think will happen, but no one seems to have a very distinct notion respecting it.
Some think the Government will issue some day a notice to say that there are only provisions for a week longer; and that at the end of this time the gates of the city will be opened, and the Prussians told that, if they insist upon entering, there will be nothing to prevent them.

Others think that the Government will resign their power into the hands of the mayors, as the direct representatives of Paris.

Trochu rides about a good deal outside, and says to the soldiers, "Courage, my children, the moment is coming." But to what moment he alludes no one is aware.