au sein, * into the heart

I. 662. n*eût été U canon^ 'but for the cannon,* literally, 'had there not been the cannon.* This is a conditional clause with ellipsis of si. Note too the use of m without pas when the phrase introduces a correction. See Eve, §§ 283, 296, 297.

II. 663 — 676. Note hère the ' use of the preterîte indefinite (ils ont essayé, àf*c.) in conversational narrative, where a historian would use the preterite definite. Compare Eve, § 173, where this passage is quoted.