Messenger Johnson having by this time got within the Embassy gates, the mob turned on his postilion and led him off.

What his fate has been no one has had time to ask.
When I went upstairs I found Wodehouse sitting like patience on a stool, with a number of Britons round him, who wanted to get off out of Paris.
Wodehouse very justly told them that Lord Lyons had given them due notice to leave, and that they had chosen at their own risk to remain.
The Britons seemed to imagine that their Embassy was bound to find them a road by which they might safely withdraw from the town.

One very important Briton was most indignant--"I am a man of wealth and position.
I am not accustomed to be treated in this manner.

What is the use of you, sir, if you cannot ensure my safe passage to England?
If I am killed the world shall ring with it.

I shall myself make a formal complaint to Lord Granville," said this incoherent and pompous donkey.
Exit man of position fuming; enter unprotected female.