At length the decisive moment came.

The troops were ordered to pass in review.
Those who wished to remain in Ireland were directed to file off at a particular spot.

All who passed that spot were to be considered as having made their choice for France.

Sarsfield and Wauchop on one side, Porter, Coningsby and Ginkell on the other, looked on with painful anxiety.

D'Usson and his countrymen, though not uninterested in the spectacle, found it hard to preserve their gravity.