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attack before the morning.
Dialogues like the following took place amongst them:--
"I wish I had a truss of straw," said Charpentier; "I have a notion that
we shall sleep here to-night."
"
Will you be able to get to sleep?" asked Jeanty Sarre.
I? Certainly I shall go to sleep."
"
He did go to sleep, in fact, a few moments later.
In this gloomy network of narrow streets, intersected with barricades,
and blockaded by soldiers, two wine-shops had remained open. They made
more lint there, however, than they drank wine; the orders of the chiefs
were only to drink reddened water.
The doorway of one of these wine-shops opened exactly between the two
barricades of the Petit Cancan. In it was a clock by which they
regulated the sentries' relief. In a back room they had locked up two
suspicious-looking persons who had intermingled with the combatants. One
of these men at the moment when he was arrested said, "I have come to
fight for Henri V." They kept them under lock and key, and placed a
sentry at the door.
An ambulance had been established in an adjoining room. There the
wounded shoemaker was lying upon a mattress thrown upon the ground.
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