ALL the entrances to the Voreux had been closed, and the sixty soldiers, with grounded arms, were barring the only door left free, that leading to the receiving-room by a narrow staircase into which opened the captains' room and the shed.
On venait de fermer toutes les ouvertures du Voreux; et les soixante soldats, l'arme au pied, barraient la seule porte restée libre, celle qui menait a la recette, par un escalier étroit, ou s'ouvraient la chambre des porions et la baraque.