[He embraces LA HOGUE.
LA HOGUE.
[Submitting with gusto.]
Damme! Embraced by a Sans Culotte! I like it, too!
Artillery is heard in the distance.
PAUL.
[Looking off.]
By heavens!—The Republicans are sweeping down from Granville!
[To LA HOGUE.]
Colonel, see! My comrades have attacked you under cover of the town I burned.