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82 and famine. Groups of shivering wretches sat by the road-side, and more than one unburied corpse showed what inroads distress had made on humanity. So strongly is sympathy with the dead implanted in our nature, that when, those last sad offices of affection and decency are neglected, life indeed is in its last despair.

It was midday when they arrived in Paris; and though Bournonville's house was near the Barrier de Sergens, they saw enough to show them what excitement prevailed through the city. Groups of citizens (armed apparently with the heir-looms of the wars of the league, so heavy were some of the two-handled swords, and so antiquated were the long and lumbering pikes) were scattered round; and if they were to be as violent in action as they were in gesture and discourse, the future might well be matter of apprehension. But Bournonville, who had witnessed the day of the barricades in the first La Fronde, looked on with great composure. "They will disperse," said he, "about four o'clock; nos bons bourgeois ne s'en desheureront jamais. They must go home to their soup, coúte qui coúte."

A shrill sound of childish voices rose upon the air; and whether from the folly or the carelessness of their parents, some of the clamourers