Part 31 (1/2)

What should I have felt, had I been aware, when this man came up, that I was accosted by the villain Danton! The person ith me knew hi in the crowd for fear of being discovered When I looked round and found myself alone, I said I had lost rief

”Oh, never mind,” said Danton; ”take hold of my arm; no one shall molest you We will look for your brother, and try to recover your things;” and on ent together: I, weeping, I may truly say, for my life, stopped at every step, while he related rief

Onarm in arm with Danton before the s of the Queen's apartments, ere observed by Her Majesty and the Princesses Their consternation and perplexity, as well as alarnal froht enter the palace, to which my return had been for soer be of any service to carry on the farce of seeking ed to be escorted out of the mob to the apartments of the Princesse de Lamballe

”Oh,” said Danton, ”certainly! and if you had only told the people that you were going to that good Princess, I as would not have been taken from you But,” added he, ”are you perfectly certain they were not for that detestable Marie Antoinette?”

”Oh!” I replied, ”quite, quite certain!” All this while the mob was at my heels

”Then,” said he, ”I will not leave you till you are safe in the apartments of the Princesse de Lamballe, and I will ood,” continued he, ”that I am convinced she will make you just coed by his doing so, as I had been cos, and if I was made to pay for them, the loss would be more serious than I could bear

”Bah! bah!” exclaimed he ”Laissez moi faire! Laissez moi faire!”

When he ca about, he told the gentleman of the chamber his nahness caitation at the sight of Danton, I feared she would have betrayed both herself and ns, from which she inferred that all was safe

When Danton had finished telling her the story, she cals you have been robbed of?”

I replied that, if I had pen and ink, I could even set down the prices

”Oh, well, then, child, cohness, ”and ill see what is to be done!”

”There!” exclai me a hearty squeeze of the hand, he departed, and thus terminated the hness a tolerable suone, the Princess said, ”For Heaven's sake, tell me the whole of this affair candidly; for the Queen has been in the greatest agitation at the bare idea of your knowing Danton, ever since we first saw you walking with him! He is one of our moat inveterate enemies”

I said that if they had but witnessed one half of the scenes that I saas sure their feelings would have been shocked beyond description ”We did not see all, but we heard too much for the ears of our sex”

I then related the particulars of our hness, who observed, ”This accident, however unpleasant, e This fellow believes you to be aaccompanied you to my apartment will enable you, in future, to pass to and frouard”

With tears of joy in her eyes forwhen I told her the farce I kept up respecting the loss of my brother, and ratulated raciously by Her Majesty, who much applauded my spirit and presence of mind, and condescended, ireatest iuished members of the asse care to be ready with a proper story of uard-room, I was pitied by the very wretches, who, perhaps, had already shared in the spoils; and ould have butchered ain, could they have penetrated the real object of my mission They asked me if I had been paid for the loss I sustained I told them I had not, but I was promised that it should be settled

”Settled!” said one of the wretches ”Get the money as soon as you can

Do not trust to pro settled They will all be settled the to the palace, I found the Princesse de Laitation, from the accounts the Court had just received of theto Arthur Dillon, and of the massacres at Nantes

”The horrid prints, pamphlets, and caricatures,” cried she, ”daily exhibited under the very s of the Tuileries, against His Majesty, the Queen, the Austrian party, and the Coblentz party, the constant thwarting of every plan, and these last horrors at Nantes, have so overwhel that he is nearly becohtly execrations are howled in his ears Look at our boasted deliverers! The poor Queen, her children, and all of us belonging to the palace, are in danger of our lives atbuoyed up with hope are quarrelling ast the us to the fury of a race of cannibals, who know nobefore their disputes of etiquette can be settled”