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Both soldiers and towns-people were now anxious to face each other, and the gates soon fell inwards towards the military. Had the men at the gun had their wits about them they would have fired through the gates; but they did not, they waited till they fell inwards across the cannon's mouth, and in his confusion the artillery-sergeant even then hesitated before he put the light to the touch-hole.
The siege of the wine-shop was now beginning. The soldiers, we will observe, were full of wrath. The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still more melancholy circumstance.
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