In the foreground to the north, at the foot of the hill, are the roofs of two little hamlets,Joncheroy and Voisins,and beyond them the trees that border the canal.

At the foot of the hillperhaps five hundred yards awayare the tiny hamlet of Joncheroy and the little village of Voisins.

In the evening there was a procession at Voisins, and from Meaux and the other towns on the hill there was an occasional rocket.

The procession at Voisins was a primitive affair, but, to me, all the prettier for that.

We discovered before we had got out of Esbly that Couilly had been evacuated during the day, and that a great many people had left Voisins; that the civil government had gone to Coutevroult; that the Croix Rouge had gone.

"Of course, you know," she added, "that every one has left Couilly; all the shops are closed, and nearly every one has gone from Voisins and Quincy.

And nodding to me, he said to the picket, "This lady is kind enough to offer you a cup of tea," and he rode off, taking the road down the hill to Voisins.

I remembered, in the pause, as I poured him another cup of tea, and pushed the jam pot toward him, that Amelie had heard at Voisins last night that there were horses in the woods near the canal; that they had been heard neighing in the night; and that we had jumped to the conclusion that there were English cavalry there.

When Amelie came to help get tea at the gate, she said that a man from Voisins, who had started with the crowd that left here Wednesday, had returned.

About half an hour ago eight of the Uhlans we are looking for rode right into the street below you, in Voisins.

And I had the impertinence to suggest that if the picket had been extended to the road below it would have been impossible for the Germans to have got into Voisins.

Just before we got to the turn, he motioned me to stop and stood with his map in hand while I explained that he was to cross the road that led into Voisins, take the cart track down the hill past the washhouse on his left, and turn into the wood road on that side.

Little lines of white smoke were rising from a few chimneys at Joncheroy and Voisins.

Hardly fifteen minutes later some one came running up from Voisins to tell me that just round the corner he had slipped off his wheel, almost unconscious,evidently drunk.

She has to go to the other side of Voisins.

The detachment of the regiment which staggered past my gate camped in the fields below me and in the courtyards at Voisins, and the rest of them made themselves comfortable in the fields at the other side of the hill and the outbuildings on Amelie's place, and the officers and the ambulance corps began to seek their quarters.

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I don't know how many people there are at Voisins.

He owns a field about halfway between Voisins and Mareuil, close to the route de Pavé du Roi, and on the morning that the battle began he was digging potatoes there.

Both Condé and Voisins, as well as Esbly, had street lampsgasbefore the war, but it was cut off when mobilization began, and so the road was black.

After dinner, in the twilight, for the days are getting long, and the moon is full, I sit on the lawn and listen to them singing in the street at Voisins, and they sing wonderfully well, and they sing good music.

I could hear voices at Voisins, as if all the world had rushed into the street.

I patiently waited until the voices ceased in Voisins.

There is an old woman in Voisins, well on to ninety, called Mère R-.