“Do not turn your head aside thus. Listen to me. It is a serious matter. In the first place, here is what has happened. — All this will not be laughed at. I swear it to you. — What was I saying? Remind me! Oh! — There is a decree of Parliament which gives you back to the scaffold. I have just rescued you from their hands. But they are pursuing you. Look!”

He extended his arm toward the City. The search seemed, in fact, to be still in progress there. The uproar drew nearer; the tower of the lieutenant’s house, situated opposite the Gr�ve, was full of clamors and light, and soldiers could be seen running on the opposite quay with torches and these cries, “The gypsy!

Where is the gypsy! Death!