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Updated: June 15, 2025
And if the terrific impressions of the night were not there to preside at the awakening of the great city the fear of total destruction, the Seine pouring its fiery waves past their doors, Paris kindling into flame from end to end a feeling of gloom and despair, hung heavy over the quartiers that had been spared, with that dense, on-pouring smoke, whose dusky cloud was ever spreading.
This time it was to be the torrential sortie that had all along been the object of the popular clamor; Paris was to throw open its dikes and drown the Prussians beneath the on-pouring waves of its children.
So true was it that he was a mere drop in the on-pouring torrent that when the leading files came to the end of the trench and began to waver at the prospect of climbing the exposed slope that lay before them, he immediately felt himself seized by a sensation of panic, and was ready to turn and fly.
Broadway, ever brilliant with shop windows where wealth gleams in a thousand rare and beautiful shapes; Broadway, with its crowding omnibuses and on-pouring current of life, its Niagara roar, its dazzle is utter loneliness to her. The fiery letters over the theatre entrances are glowing in all the colors of the rainbow.
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