"If any one doubts me," I added, "let us go to the nearest commissary." No one did doubt me, and fifty patriots immediately shook hands with me.

The French people are apt to form hasty judgments sometimes, and to act on them still more hastily, but if one can get them to listen for a moment, they are reasonable, and soon their natural good nature asserts itself.

The zealous but well-intended Mobiles are the most dangerous, for they shoot you first and then apologise to your corpse.

An order is placarded to-day of Governor Trochu's, announcing that anyone trying to pass the lines will be sent before the Courts Martial, or if he or she runs away when ordered to stop, will be shot on the spot.

This latter clause allows a very great latitude for zeal, more particularly as the "lines" just now are little more than a geographical expression.