All the officers of the garrison betook themselves there of their own accord; there would have been no need of inviting them.

More than one soldier went secretly and billeted himself in a tree.

The _gendarmerie_ itself ornamented the little family _fete_, with its presence.

People went to see an encounter in chivalric tourney, not merely between the infantry and the cavalry, but between the old army and the young.

The exhibition fully satisfied public expectation.