[Gutenberg 11521] • A Beleaguered City / Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen

"Jacques," said I, "I do not call it impious, like this good woman, but I call it inhuman. What a man goes to carry help to the dying, and you show him no respect " This brought the color to his face; and I think, perhaps, that he might have become ashamed of the part he had played; but the women pushed in again, as they are so fond of doing. "Oh, M. le Maire, he does not deserve that you should lose your words upon him " they cried; "and, besides, is it likely he will pay any attention to you when he tries to stop even the "bon Dieu?""