'Feb. 25.
'There is no more fighting, the people have conquered; but the
barricades are still kept up, and the people are in arms, more than
ever fearing some new act of treachery on the part of the ex-King.
The fight where I was was the principal cause of the Revolution. I
was in little danger from the shot, for there was an immense crowd
in front of me, though quite within gunshot. [By another letter, a
hundred yards from the troops.] I wished I had stopped there.
'The Paris streets are filled with the most extraordinary crowds of
men, women and children, ladies and gentlemen. Every person
joyful. The bands of armed men are perfectly polite. Mamma and
aunt to-day walked through armed crowds alone, that were firing
blank cartridges in all directions. Every person made way with the
greatest politeness, and one common man with a blouse, coming by
accident against her immediately stopped to beg her pardon in the
politest manner. There are few drunken men.
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