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Updated: August 6, 2024
She played her part valiantly, and one look at the perfection of her disguise was sufficient to assure the leader of this band of heroes that his instructions would be carried through to the letter. Deroulede too now looked the ragged sansculotte to the life, with bare and muddy feet, frayed breeches, and shabby, black-shag spencer.
On the rough trestles a number of glasses, half filled with raw potato-spirit, gave the keynote to the temper of the assembly. All those present were dressed in the black-shag spencer, the seedy black breeches, and down-at-heel boots, which had become recognised as the distinctive uniform of the sansculotte party.
She was handed over to the governor of the prison, a short, thick-set man in black trousers and black-shag woollen shirt, and wearing a dirty red cap, with tricolour rosette on the side of his unkempt head. He eyed her up and down as she passed under the narrow doorway, then murmured one swift query to Merlin: "Dangerous?" "Yes," replied Merlin laconically.
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