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We stopped a moment and looked back. The street behind was closed by another band, marching steadily, shoulder to shoulder. We went on there seemed no other way to go and presently found ourselves quite surrounded by this close-massed multitude, women, all of them, but They were not young. They were not old. They were not, in the girl sense, beautiful. They were not in the least ferocious.
Day was declining when the Marquess at last succeeded in driving his flock to their fold, and the moon sent a quiver of brightness across the water as the burchiello touched at the landing of a villa set amid close-massed foliage high above the river.
The square was held by a regiment of sailor-boys, who appeared to slacken their fire for a moment as if with the intention of drawing their assailants on; then, when the close-massed column was directly opposite their front, a most surprising maneuver was swiftly executed: the men abandoned their formation, some of them stepping from the ranks and flattening themselves against the house fronts, others casting themselves prone upon the ground, and down the vacant space thus suddenly formed the mitrailleuses that had been placed in battery at the farther end poured a perfect hailstorm of bullets.
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