"For all the world knows that the fair sex so dear
Has ever a friend in the French cavalier."
Then turning toward the Volunteers, "Why did you stop this woman?" inquired the poetical corporal.
"I have already told the lieutenant," replied the chief of the little troop, "because she had no pass."
"Bah! bah!" said Lorin, "a great crime, certainly."
"Are you then ignorant of the decree of the Commune?" demanded the chief of the Volunteers.
"Yes; but there is another clause which annuls that."
"Which?"
"Listen:—
"On Pindus and Parnassus, it is decreed by Love,
That Beauty's witching face,
That Youth and fairy Grace,
Without a pass, by day or night, may through the city rove.