“ But the fears of the inhabitants always made the French successful.— What then must they have felt when the English baggage passed through Brussels; and crowded the road to Antwerp. No wonder that the rumour was then believed that the French had gained a complete victory. The entire population were now to fly a satisfactory piece of evidence of no great attachment to the French. We are lost, we are lost, was the only cry to be heard among the inhabitants. ”

“ I think it very likely that they would lose no time in turning their faces again to their own happy country, and be glad to mix with the promiscuous throng.
Sunday came, and the battle about nine miles off began to roar. It was described by the inhabitants of Brussels as one uninterrupted peal of thunder in their ears for eight hours. ”

“ On their arrival there, they heard an altercation between their coachman and a woman on the top, whom he had taken up, and would not let down till she paid a franc. They found this poor woman to be the widow, newly so made, of a soldier killed at Quatre Bras ”