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Their attempt of the preceding evening had had one good effect--it had
taught the peasants that those who hesitated were in five times more
imminent danger than those who at once got into the trench; and that the
men climbing up the embankment, or at the top of it, were not nearly so
liable to be struck, as the men at the bottom of the trench, or as those
beyond it; they therefore eagerly stuck their hands and feet into the
earth, and made the best of their way into the encampment.
It had been expected by the republicans that the next attack of the
royalists would probably be made at Bournan, and they had consequently
moved most of the cuirassiers from Varin to strengthen that important
place; the men left in the encampment, consisted chiefly of those tribes
of republicans who were enrolled into the French army under the name of
Marseillaise--men who were as ferocious in the hour of victory, as they
were prone to fly at the first suspicion of defeat--men who delighted
in bloodshed, but who preferred finding their victims ready bound for
the slaughter.


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