He is absolutely loathed here.

I sometimes suggest to some Gaul that he may possibly be back again some day; the Gaul immediately rolls his eyes, clenches his fists, and swears that if ever Badinguet returns to Paris he (the Gaul) will himself shoot him.
An American, who took an active part in the Confederate defence of Richmond, has just been in to see me.

He does not believe that the town will hold out long, and scoffs at the mode in which it is being defended.

I reserve my opinion until I have seen it under fire.
Certainly they "do protest too much." The papers contain lists of citizens who have sworn to die rather than surrender.

The bourgeois, when he goes off to the ramparts, embraces his wife in public, and assumes a martial strut as though he were a very Curtius on the way to the pit.