"Three heads under one cap!" she cried.
Then she burst out sobbing, and embraced the widow excitedly, saying,—
"She looks like a rogue already, that little girl!"
"Hurrah for the Republic!" repeated the soldiers.
"Come, citizeness," said the sergeant to the mother.
[1] The sergeant makes a pun on the name Fléchard which is untranslatable. Flèche means arrow, and he asks whether the Fléchards made arrows.—TR.
[2] An opprobrious epithet for an ecclesiastic.—TR.