As he ate and drank-and this with appetite, for as he told them he had not tasted food since early morning-he entered into the details of the dreadful events of the day, and gave them the particulars of his own escape from the Tuileries when all was seen to be lost and when the Swiss, having burnt their last cartridge, were submitting to wholesale massacre at the hands of the indescribably furious mob.
"Oh, it was all most ill done," he ended critically. "We were timid when we should have been resolute, and resolute at last when it was too late. That is the history of our side from the beginning of this accursed struggle. We have lacked proper leadership throughout, and now -as I have said already-there is an end to us. It but remains to escape, as soon as we can discover how the thing is to be accomplished.
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