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The hotel occupied by the admiral, as we have said, was situated in the Rue de Bethizy. It was a great mansion at the rear of a court and had two wings giving on the street. A wall furnished with a large gate and two small grilled doors stretched from wing to wing.
When our three Guisards reached the end of the Rue de Bethizy, which is a continuation of the Rue des Fosses Saint Germain l'Auxerrois, they saw the hotel surrounded by Swiss, by soldiers, and by armed citizens; every one had in his right hand either a sword or a pike or an arquebuse, and some held in their left hands torches, shedding over the scene a fitful and melancholy glare which, according as the throng moved, shifted along the street, climbed the walls; or spread over that living sea where every weapon cast its answering flash.