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Antoine, and Charonne all meet in one great open space, which the Prince occupied, heaping up his baggage behind him, and barricading the three streets M. de Nemours guarded one, Vallon and Tavannes the other two. The Prince, with the Duke of la Rochefoucauld and fifty more brave gentlemen, waited ready to carry succour wherever it should be needed. Within, the Bastille frowned over all.
I noticed at each step the placards of the coup d'état untouched. Beyond the fountain which stands at the corner of the Rue de Charonne the shops were closed.
The Frondeurs occupied what is now the Faubourg St. Antoine: the royalists the heights of Charonne. It was a stubborn and bloody contest. The armies were led by the two greatest captains of the age, and fought under the eyes of their king, who with the queen-mother watched the struggle from the eminence now crowned by the cemetery of Père la Chaise.
It was, however, more particularly after following the Boulevard Voltaire, and drawing near to the districts of La Roquette and Charonne, that the brothers felt they were returning to a sphere of labour where there was often lack of food, and where life was but so much pain. Pierre found himself at home here.
He went to see Abbe Rose in the Rue de Charonne, where in the depths of a damp ground floor he had transformed three rooms into an asylum for abandoned children, whom he picked up in the neighbouring streets. And from that moment Pierre's life changed, a fresh and all-powerful source of interest had entered into it, and by degrees he became the old priest's passionate helper.
"Thank you. I'll go and tell mama. If you'll stand beside Palikare for a minute, I'll go and tell her at once." "Sure, I'll mind him for yer. I'll ask him to teach me Greek." "And please don't let him eat that straw." Perrine went inside the caravan and told her mother what the little clown had said. "If that is so," said the sick woman, "we must not hesitate; we must go to Charonne.
The opportunity to drink without cost presently kept the mob busy, however, and as the liquor took effect the work of searching was abandoned for the night, but the next morning the crowd came together again, and for days it was unsafe to go abroad in the Rue Charonne. Of this quarter was Citizen Jacques Sabatier, never so criminal as many of his fellows, perhaps, yet a dangerous man.
In the moment of pause Barrington had thrust aside a man who seemed to bar his way, and had started to run. He was a score of yards to the good; with fortune on his side he would turn into the Rue Charonne well ahead of all but two of his pursuers; an open doorway, an alley, some hiding-place might present itself.
Does he like thistles?" "I should say he does like them!" "Well, then, this is just the place for him, and Grain-of-Salt isn't a bad chap," said the little clown with a satisfied air. "Is that his name ... Grain-of-Salt?" "They call him that 'cause he's always thirsty. He's only got one arm." "Is his place far from here?" "No, at Charonne; but I bet yer don't even know where Charonne is?"
She was as sure of this as of the emblematic meaning of the small crucifix which she had hung above her bed. She must act. There was no time to give way to despair. On scraps of paper she wrote a long letter, telling the whole history of the house in the Rue Charonne, how she came to be there, and the peril she was in. She sealed it, and then waited until she could get Marie alone.
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