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The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disen-
cumbered, the kitchen appropriated for the ambulance, the
dressing of the wounded completed, the powder scattered
on the ground and on the tables had been gathered up, bul-
lets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the fallen
weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned,
the rubbish swept up, corpses removed.
They laid the dead in a heap in the Mondetour lane, of
which they were still the masters. The pavement was red for
a long time at that spot. Among the dead there were four
National Guardsmen of the suburbs. Enjolras had their uni-
forms laid aside.
Enjolras had advised two hours of sleep. Advice from
Enjolras was a command. Still, only three or four took ad-
vantage of it.
Feuilly employed these two hours in engraving this
inscription on the wall which faced the tavern:—

LONG LIVE THE PEOPLES!

These four words, hollowed out in the rough stone with a
nail, could be still read on the wall in 1848.
The three women had profited by the respite of the night
to vanish definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe
more freely.
They had found means of taking refuge in some neigh-
boring house.
The greater part of the wounded were able, and wished,
to fight still. On a litter of mattresses and trusses of straw in

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