ten o'clock in the evening
On going to the quarters where the Marshal had established himself , he brought back an order authorizing Cuthbert Hartington , a British subject , to circulate everywhere in quarters occupied by the troops . `` It is too late to go down this evening , Mary , '' he said , `` but I expect that to-morrow a great attack upon the positions round the Tuileries will take place , and I shall try and get somewhere where I can see without being in the line of fire . I will take care to run no risk , dear ; you see my life is more precious to me now than it was when I joined the Franc tireurs des Écoles . '' It was difficult to stop quietly indoors when so mighty a struggle was going on almost within sight , and at ten o'clock in the evening he and Mary went out to the Trocadero . The flashes of fire from the Loyal and Communist batteries were incessant . Away on the south side was a constant flicker of musketry as Cissey 's troops struggled with the defender of the barricades . An incessant fire played along the end of the Champs Elysées , flashed from the windows of the Tuileries and fringed the parapet of the south side of the river facing the Palais .