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do nothing further there, that we must be off, that this house was
stupidly chosen," that there was no outlet in the rear, that perhaps we
"
should already find it difficult to get out of the street, and that we
had only just time.
He told this all panting, briefly, jerkily, and interrupted at every
moment with this ejaculation, "And to think that they have no arms, and
to think that I have no gun!"
As he finished we heard from the barricade a shout of "Attention!" and
almost immediately a shot was fired.
A violent discharge replied to this shot.
Several balls struck the paling of the ambulance, but they were too
obliquely aimed, and none pierced it. We heard the glass of several
broken windows falling noisily into the street.
"
There is no longer time," said the last-maker calmly; "the barricade is
attacked."
He took a chair and sat down. The two workmen were evidently excellent
marksmen. Two volleys assailed the barricade, one after the other. The
barricade answered with animation. Then the fire ceased. There was a
pause.
"Now they are coming at us with the bayonet! They are coming at the
double!" said a voice in the barricade.
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