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getting a gun."
He added,--
"
"
Would you like one for yourself?"
No," answered I. "I shall remain here without a gun. I only take a half
share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill."
I asked him if he thought his friends were going to come. He declared
that he could not understand it, that the men from the societies ought
to have arrived already, that instead of two men in the barricade there
should be twenty, that instead of two barricades in the street there
should have been ten, and that something must have happened; he added,--
"
"
However, I will go and see; promise to wait for me here."
I promise you," I answered, "I will wait all night if necessary."
He left me.
The old woman had reseated herself near the little girl, who did not
seem to understand much of what was passing round her, and who from time
to time raised great calm eyes towards me. Both were poorly clad, and it
seemed to me that the child had stockingless feet. "My man has not yet
come back," said the old woman, "my poor man has not yet come back. I
hope nothing has happened to him!" With many heart-rending "My God's,"
and all the while quickly picking her lint, she wept. I could not help
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