He meets them at the door and tenders them the keys.

After a search of six hours, they find twelve fowling pieces and thirteen rusty pistols, which he has already declared.

His disappointed visitors grumble, break, eat and drink to the extent of 2,000 crowns damage.[3274] Nevertheless, urged by their leaders they finally retire.
But M.de Gouy has 60,000 francs in rentals which would be so much gain to the nation if he would emigrate; this must be effected, by expelling him, and, moreover during his expulsion, they may fill their pockets.
For eight days this matter is discussed in the Compiegne club, in the bars, in the barracks, and, on the ninth day, 150 volunteers issue from the town, declaring that they are going to kill M.de Gouy and all who belong to him.

Informed of this, he departs with his family, leaving the doors of his house wide open.

There is a general pillage for five hours; the mob drink the costly wines, steal the plate, demand horses to carry their booty away, and promise to return soon and take the owner's head .-- In effect, on the following morning at four o'clock, there is a new invasion, a new pillage, and, this time, the last one; the servants escape under a fire of musketry, and M.de Gouy, at the request of the villagers, whose vineyards are devastated, is obliged to quit that part of the country.[3275]--There is no need to go through the whole file.
At Houdainville, at the house of M.de Saint-Maurice, at Nointel, on the estate of the Duc de Bourbon, at Chantilly, on the estate of the Prince de Conde, at the house of M.de Fitz-James, and elsewhere, a certain Gauthier, "commandant of the Paris detachment of Searchers, and charged with the powers of the Committee of Supervision," makes his patriotic circuit, and Roland knows beforehand of what that consists, namely, a dragonnade[3276] in regular form on the domains of all nobles, absent or present.[3277] Favorite game is still found in the clergy, more vigorously hunted than the nobles; Roland, charged with the duty of maintaining public order, asks himself how the lives of inoffensive priests, which the law recommends to him, can be protected .-- At Troyes, at the house of M.
Fardeau, an old non-conformist cure, an altar decked with its sacred vessels is discovered, and M.Fardeau, arrested, refuses to take the civic oath.