text:  The guard was so strong as to preclude all hope of resistance; and with all the pomp of a military pageant drums beating trumpets sounding and bands playing _Ca Ira_ and the _Marseillaise_ we left our dreary dwelling which habit had now almost turned into a home and moved through the principal streets of the capital for the express purposes of popular display in the centre of a large body of horse and foot and an incalculable multitude of spectators until in the distance we saw the instrument of death