I presume, therefore, that General Trochu had thought it expedient to send reinforcements.

"We will come back again with arms," was the general cry among the ouvriers, and unless things mend for the better I imagine that they will keep their word.

The line of demarcation between the bourgeois and the ouvrier battalions is clearly marked, and they differ as much in their opinions as in their appearance.

The sleek, well-fed shopkeeper of the Rue Vivienne, although patriotic, dreads disorder, and does not absolutely contemplate with pleasure an encounter with the Prussians.

The wild, impulsive working man from Belleville or La Villette dreads neither Prussians without, nor anarchy within.