Life seemed to have stopped short; the shops were shut, the streets deserted. Now and then an inhabitant, awed by the silence, glided swiftly by in the shadow of the walls. The anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of the enemy.

For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed through the town. They were mere disorganized bands, not disciplined forces. The men wor…

The same thing happens whenever the established order of things is upset, when security no longer exists, when all those rights usually protected by the law of…

A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one.