, who excited her partner the more by her shouts of laughter.

No charge having been raised against Tortillard (our readers have
recognised him), and Bras Rouge having been for the while left in
prison, the boy, at his father's request, was reclaimed by Micou, the
receiver of the passage of the Brasserie, who had not been denounced by
his accomplices.

As secondary figures in this picture, let imagination conceive all there
is of the lowest, most shameful, and most monstrous, in this idle,
wanton, insolent, rapacious, atheistical, sanguinary assemblage of
infamy, which is most hostile to social order, and to which we would
call the attention of all thinking persons as our recital draws to a
close.

Excited by the shouts of laughter and the cheers of the mob assembled
around the windows, the actors in the infamous dance cried to the
orchestra for a finale galop. The musicians, delighted to reach the end
of their labours, complied with the general wish, and played a galoppade
with the utmost energy and rapidity. At this the excitement redoubled;
the couples encircled each other and dashed away, following the Skeleton
and his partner, who led off their infernal round amidst the wildest
cries and acclamations.

The crowd was so thick, so dense, and the evolutions so multiplied and
rapid, that these creatures, inflamed with wine, exercise, and noise,
their intoxication became delirious frenzy, and they soon ceased to have
space for their movements. The Skeleton then cried, in a breathless
voice, "Look out at the door! We will go out on to the boulevard."

"Yes, yes!" cried the mob at the windows; "a galop as far as the
Barriere St. Jacques!"

"The two 'mots' will soon be here."

"The headsman cuts double! How funny!"

"Yes, with a cornet-a-piston accompaniment."

"I'll ask the widow to be my partner."

"And I the daughter."

"Death to the informers!"

"Long live the prigs and lads of steel!" cried the Skeleton in a voice
of thunder, as he and the dancers, forcing their way in the midst of the
mass, set the whole body in motion; and then were heard cries, and
imprecations, and shouts of laughter, which had nothing human in their
sound.

Suddenly this uproar reached its height by two fresh incidents. The
vehicle which contained the criminals, accompanied by its escort of
cavalry, appeared at the angle of the boulevard, and then all the mob
rushed in that direction, shouting and roaring with ferocious delight.