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3878	''But the policy of State?'' 3878 ''Is that above religion?''
3878	What,asked I,"can it be which makes the people so outrageous against the Queen?"
3878	--''What, then, he is risen?''
3878	--''Whom do you mean?''
3879	''But how will you be able to contrive this without its being known to the King, or to the Comte de Vergennes, who would never forgive me?'' 3879 ''But wo n''t the Minister banish or exile him for it?'' 3879 And was not her rapture natural? 3879 Had he been aware of it, could he have refused to dance for his most bounteous benefactress? 3879 No, my dear,''resumed the good and tender- hearted Duc de Penthievre,''I mean, would you have any objection to become his wife?'' 3879 The Emperor answered Her Majesty in German,''What heat can you expect from the hand of one whose heart resides with the dead?'' 3879 against her husband, the Duke of Modena, for not having consummated her own marriage? 3879 what widow, what orphan, what suffering or oppressed petitioner am I to thank for this visit? 3880 ''Against what?''
3880	''But what answer,''said I,''does Your Majesty wish me to return to the deputy''s request for a private audience?'' 3880 ''Pray what are they, please Your Majesty?''
3880	''What answer?'' 3880 ''Where,''said he, I did you procure this?''
3880	''Who got it for you?'' 3880 ''Who,''continued His Highness,''caused that infernal comedy,''Le Mariage de Figaro'', to be brought out, but the party of the Duchesse de Polignac?
3880	''Why, what do you call a fellow who sent arms to the Americans before the war was declared, without his Sovereign''s consent?'' 3880 Is there anything on earth more natural than the lively interest which inspires a mother towards those who have the care of her offspring?
3880	''I am terrified at Your Majesty''s mistake''--''Comment?
3880	''Vat make you so frightful, my dear lady?''
3880	--but who will''compatire''( make allowance for) her folly?
3880	And what has been the consequence of Her Majesty''s ungovernable partiality for these De Polignacs?''
3880	Are not the sentiments of the Duchesses sister- in- law, the Comtesse Diane, in direct opposition to the absolute monarchy?
3880	Are these the prerogatives with which he flattered the King?
3880	But at that time, when France was threatened by its great convulsion, where is the genius which might not have committed itself?
3880	But can the Duchess answer for the same sincerity towards the Queen, with respect to her innumerable guests?
3880	Do they wish to imitate the English Revolution of 1648, and reproduce the sanguinary times of the unfortunate and weak Charles the First?
3880	For example,''les culottes''--what do you call them?''
3880	Has she not always been an enthusiastic advocate for all those that have supported the American war?
3880	Is it not from the same sentiment that she roused the jealousy of the Comtesse d''Artois against Her Majesty?''
3880	Who was it that crowned, at a public assembly, the democratical straight hairs of Dr. Franklin?
3880	Who was''capa turpa''in applauding the men who were framing the American Constitution at Paris?
3880	Why withdraw her former confidence from the Comte d''Artois, when she lives in the society which promulgates antimonarchical principles?
3880	Why, then, refuse to see me?
3880	did you no tell me just now, dat in England de lady call les culottes"irresistibles"?''
3880	how can they be called small clothes for one large man?
3877	Are there any persons about the Court likely to become mad?
3877	I have just had a strange adventure,said he:"would you believe that, in going out of my wardroom into my bedroom, I met a gentleman face to face?"
3877	Is that lady ill?
3877	She came, then, to beg for some assistance?
3877	Was the Court of Francis I. very brilliant?
3877	What did she come for, then?
3877	What is all this, Count?
3877	Why,said she,"is the Marquise so violent an enemy to the Jesuits?
3877	''How can you know that, supposing it to be the fact?''
3877	''What can I do?''
3877	''What do you do here?''
3877	--"And the Constable,"said Madame,"what do you say of him?"
3877	--"How do you mean?"
3877	--"I forgot,"replied Madame,"that the Duke said,''I want extremely to be in the fashion, but which sister shall I take up?
3877	--"I have the honour of knowing him, then, Madame?"
3877	--"What absurdity now?"
3877	--"What do you mean?"
3877	--"You prove that?"
3877	--''What can come of them,''said she,''that need seriously disquiet Your Majesty?
3877	A moment after, M. de Gontaut came in and said,"D''Amblimont, who shall have the Swiss guards?"
3877	Are you not master of the Parliaments, as well as of all the rest of the kingdom?''
3877	But,"said the King,"what do you think is the amount?"
3877	Do you see that ship on the high sea?
3877	Do you want to play the''bel esprit'', my dear good woman?
3877	Duclos resumed:"Well,"said he,"do you know the story of M. de C-----?
3877	If the King had come up while we were there, do you think he would have recognised us?"
3877	Madame said,"When shall I die, and of what disease?"
3877	Mademoiselle Romans said to me,"Do you live in this neighbourhood?"
3877	One day, at her toilet, Madame said to him, in my presence,"What was the personal appearance of Francis I.?
3877	The King laughed, and said,"Whose fine verses are those?"
3877	There, do you see these little bags?
3877	What alterations would it be necessary to make in me, now, to render it impossible to recognise me?"
3877	What does the public say of it?
3877	What would the good prelate say if he knew that I shared my last quarter''s allowance with a charming little opera- dancer?
3877	Will you try to put a hundred and sixty louis into my pocket?"
3877	because he has a good- natured air, and a bourgeois tone?
3877	is Duclos an acquaintance of yours?
3877	what do I see?
3877	who is he that persecutes them?
3881	''Dining in the theatre, mamma?'' 3881 ''In what manner, sir?''
3881	''No,''replied she;''will you breakfast with me?'' 3881 ''To go, I hope?''
3881	''What do you mean?'' 3881 ''What do you mean?''
3881	''Where is our Ambassador,''said I,''and the Neapolitan?'' 3881 ''Who,''asked she, I was the guilty wretch that accused our unfortunate Barnave?''
3881	Are you a poetess?
3881	But surely you will not be so unreasonable as not to hear what I have to say?
3881	But surely,said she,"you have not really discharged the poor man?"
3881	Was he a Frenchman?
3881	Why?
3881	''Has Your Majesty breakfasted?''
3881	''Was any, sum,''asked she,''named as a compensation for suspending this trial?''
3881	--"How so?"
3881	But how prevent it?
3881	But what has brought that again into your mind just now?''
3881	But,''continued she,''has Your Majesty really forgiven me?''
3881	Do you think you should know him, if you were to see him again?"
3881	Had all the Royal Family, remained, is it likely that the King and Queen would have been watched with such despotic vigilance?
3881	I laughed, and was turning from him, saying,"Is this all your business?"
3881	Might it not be fancied that it involved secret designs on the British settlements in that quarter?
3881	The dear Dauphin said to me,''You will not go away again, I hope, Princess?
3881	What sort of a man was he?"
3881	Who that is false to his God can be expected to remain faithful to his Sovereign?
3881	Why did he not consult me before he took a step so important?
3881	Would not confidence have created confidence, and the breach have been less wide between the King and his people?
3881	doubt my fidelity?"
3881	exclaimed Her Majesty in the course of this conversation,"am I born to be the misfortune of every one who shows an interest in serving me?
3881	exclaimed Her Majesty,"Am I not the crow of evil forebodings?
3881	exclaimed the Princesse Elizabeth, can that be possible, after the King has accepted the Constitution?''
3881	why am I not animated with the courage of Maria Theresa?
3876	Do you remember the driver of the fiacre? 3876 Doctor, can you get me any of it?"
3876	How is Madame de Pompadour?
3876	That is his way,said she;"but do not those children appear made for each other?
3876	Well, what think you of the part I am playing?
3876	What do you say to them?
3876	What is the matter?
3876	Who are those two noblemen?
3876	You will take care of the accouchee, will you not? 3876 --And the young lady?"
3876	--"And what does he advise?"
3876	--"At what?"
3876	--"But they go too far,"said Mirabeau;"why openly attack religion?"
3876	--"Did the King,"said I,"show her particular attention?"
3876	--"Is he not just about to be made Cardinal?"
3876	--"Is it possible, Madame, that you can have been rendered uneasy by such a creature as that?"
3876	--"What do you think of it?"
3876	--"What, is there really that, Doctor?"
3876	--"What, sir,"said my relation,"the Marquise''s equerry of a princely house?"
3876	--"Why does he enjoy so much consideration?"
3876	--"Yes, Madame; but it was not I who denounced it?"
3876	--''But do not the King''s justice and kindness set you at ease?''
3876	At these words, my cousin looked very much astonished, and said,"Was he not right?"
3876	At this moment the Lieutenant of Police entered, and Madame said to him,"Have you seen M. de Mirabeau''s book?"
3876	Besides, who could so immediately have invented it?
3876	Do you know her joke on the nomination of Moras?
3876	Do you know what he said to me to- day?
3876	He stopped, and added,"Do n''t you think I am a little like the curate and the barber burning Don Quixote''s romances?"
3876	I asked Madame, if the young lady knew that the King was the father of her child?
3876	I took the liberty to say,"But is it not more likely from his young ladies at the Parc, that he learns these elegant expressions?
3876	Is it not saying to him, I despise your gifts?
3876	Is not all this mere empty air?
3876	Is not this insulting Faraki?
3876	Is this report founded on truth?
3876	One evening, towards midnight, a bat flew into the apartment where the Court was; the King immediately cried out,"Where is General Crillon?"
3876	She said to me,"How is the Count?"
3876	Tell me who, of all the men who come hither, receives the greatest attentions?"
3876	This set everybody calling out,"Ou etais tu, Crillon?"
3876	What would be said of a father who got rid of the charge of his children as of a burthen?
3876	When I told this to Madame, she burst into tears, and said,"Is that a friend?"
3876	While she was at the door, she cried out,"What are all those trunks, Madame?
3876	Would a corrupted Parliament have braved the fury of the League, in order to preserve the crown for the legitimate sovereign?
3882	Oh,replied I,"then I suppose you are not a Jacobin?"
3882	Per cio, mia cara Inglesina, speak now, freely and candidly: is it your wish to return to England, or go elsewhere? 3882 What, with the Princesse de Lamballe?
3882	At what hour did the King go to the National Assembly?
3882	But,"added he,"are you perfectly certain they were not for that detestable Marie Antoinette?"
3882	Can Your Majesty pardon my presumption in differing from your royal counsel?
3882	Can it be wondered at that her marked grief should be visible when amidst the murderers of her family?
3882	Can they imagine they will be spared if the King should be murdered?
3882	Did he not, before he went, review the troops?
3882	Did you know of the Mayor of Paris being at the Tuileries?
3882	Did you not go to the apartments of the King in the course of that night?
3882	Did you see the Swiss and National Guards, who passed the night on the terrace?
3882	Do you know anything of a barred staircase?
3882	Do you know anything of an article of furniture which is making for Madame Elizabeth?
3882	Do you know the oath he made them swear?
3882	Do you know the secret doors of the Tuileries?
3882	Go on, what else have you heard?"
3882	Have you any knowledge of cannon being mounted and pointed in the apartments?
3882	Have you ever seen Messrs. Mandat and d''Affry in the chateau?
3882	Have you not recently received some devotional books?
3882	Have you not, since you have been in the Temple, received and written letters, which you sought to send away secretly?
3882	How can the Parisians complain that they found her Royal Highness, on her return to France, by no means what they required in a Princess?
3882	I foresee the drift of all these commotions, and am resigned; but what will become of this misguided nation, when the head of it shall be destroyed?''
3882	Must he even satiate his barbarous brutality with being an eye- witness of the horrid state into which he has thrown us?
3882	On passing the gate, I was accosted by a person who exclaimed in a tone of great kindness,"Qu''as tu, ma bonne?
3882	Then turning to me,"When,"said he,"did you leave Paris?"
3882	Then, turning suddenly to me, she asked with eagerness,"Do you not think she will?
3882	To the second, how can I accede?
3882	Was the King in his apartment when you went thither?
3882	Were you in bed on the nights of the 9th and 10th?
3882	What are the books which you have at the Temple?
3882	What do you know of the events which occurred on the 10th of August?
3882	What general officers did you see at the Tuileries, on the nights of the 9th and 10th?
3882	What said he when one of the heterogeneous, plebeian, revolutionary assemblies not only insulted him, but added to the insult a laugh?
3882	When Danton had finished telling her the story, she calmly said to me,"Do you recollect, child, the things you have been robbed of?"
3882	When the King observed to him,"What do the French nation want?"
3882	Where did you pass that day?
3882	Where were you then?
3882	Why did she not come to me instead of writing?
3882	Why do they not rise en masse to shield the Royal Family from these bloodhounds?
3882	Would Charles the Second ever have reigned after the murder of his father had England been torn to pieces by different factions?
3882	You were aware, then, that the people had arisen?
3882	Your name?
3882	cried I,"even though he should be at the Tuileries?"
3882	exclaimed Danton;"Did I not tell you this before?"
3882	qu''est ce qui vous afflige?"
3882	said the Queen,"is he not yet satisfied?
3882	why did she not fly to Vienna?
12967	And the Constable,said Madame,"what do you say of him?"
12967	And the young lady?
12967	And what does he advise?
12967	Are there any persons about the Court likely to become mad?
12967	But they go too far,said Mirabeau;"why openly attack religion?"
12967	But who is it,answered she,"that tells you all this?
12967	Did the King,said I,"show her particular attention?"
12967	Do you remember the driver of the_ fiacre_? 12967 Doctor, can you get me any of it?"
12967	How do you mean?
12967	How is Madame de Pompadour?
12967	I forgot,replied Madame,"that the Duke said,''I want extremely to be in the fashion, but which sister shall I take up?
12967	I have just had a strange adventure,said he:"would you believe that, in going out of my wardroom into my bedroom, I met a gentleman face to face?"
12967	I have the honour of knowing him, then, Madame?
12967	Is he not just about to be made Cardinal?
12967	Is it possible, Madame, that you can have been rendered uneasy by such a creature as that?
12967	Is that lady ill?
12967	She came, then, to beg for some assistance?
12967	That is his way,said she;"but do not those children appear made for each other?
12967	Was the Court of Francis I. very brilliant?
12967	Well, what think you of the part I am playing?
12967	Well,said she,"M. de Seurre, what do you think of all this?"
12967	What absurdity now?
12967	What did she come for, then?
12967	What do you mean?
12967	What do you say to them?
12967	What do you think of it?
12967	What is all this, Count?
12967	What is the matter?
12967	What, sir,said my relation,"the Marquise''s equerry of a princely house?"
12967	Who are those two noblemen?
12967	Why does he enjoy so much consideration?
12967	Why,said she,"is the Marquise so violent an enemy to the Jesuits?
12967	Yes, Madame; but it was not I who denounced it?
12967	You prove that?
12967	You will take care of the_ accouchée_, will you not? 12967 ''But do not the King''s justice and kindness set you at ease?'' 12967 ''How can you know that, supposing it to be the fact?'' 12967 ''What can I do?'' 12967 ''What can come of them,''said she,''that need seriously disquiet Your Majesty? 12967 ''What do you do here?'' 12967 A moment after, M. de Gontaut came in and said,D''Amblimont, who shall have the Swiss guards?"
12967	And can I then be justly said to live?
12967	And who knows but they might seek their revenge upon me by taking away your life?
12967	Are you not master of the Parliaments, as well as of all the rest of the kingdom?''
12967	At these words, my cousin looked very much astonished, and said,"Was he not right?"
12967	At this moment the Lieutenant of Police entered, and Madame said to him,"Have you seen M. de Mirabeau''s book?"
12967	Besides, who could so immediately have invented it?
12967	But what of that?
12967	But why name any others?
12967	But,"said the King,"what do you think is the amount?"
12967	Dead in estate, do I then yet survive?
12967	Dixi._"Madame said,"When shall I die, and of what disease?"
12967	Do n''t you know any better?
12967	Do n''t you think I am as great a rogue as that Simier?"
12967	Do you know her joke on the nomination of Moras?
12967	Do you know what he said to me to- day?
12967	Do you not perceive how dangerous his going will prove to my kingdom?
12967	Do you see that arm?"
12967	Do you see that ship on the high sea?
12967	Do you want to play the_ bel esprit_, my dear good woman?
12967	Duclos resumed:"Well,"said he,"do you know the story of M. de C----?
12967	Have they ever discoverd any hoards of money here or in the banks of Italy, as has been believed?
12967	He added,"Do n''t we daily hear of_ silly D''Argenson_, because he has a good- natured air, and a_ bourgeois_ tone?
12967	I asked Madame, if the young lady knew that the King was the father of her child?
12967	I took the liberty to say,"But is it not more likely from his young ladies at the Parc, that he learns these elegant expressions?"
12967	If the King had come up while we were there, do you think he would have recognised us?"
12967	Is it not saying to him, I despise your gifts?
12967	Is not all this mere empty air?
12967	Is not this insulting Faraki?
12967	Is this report founded on truth?
12967	Mademoiselle Romans said to me,"Do you live in this neighbourhood?"
12967	One day, at her toilet, Madame said to him, in my presence,"What was the personal appearance of Francis I.?
12967	One evening, towards midnight, a bat flew into the apartment where the Court was; the King immediately cried out,"Where is General Crillon?"
12967	She declares that for a long time she has felt as if she was only four- and- twenty years of age; why do n''t you give some to the King?"
12967	She said to me,"How is the Count?"
12967	Tell me who, of all the men who come hither, receives the greatest attentions?"
12967	The King laughed, and said,"Whose fine verses are those?"
12967	The King said,"Why so?
12967	This set everybody calling out,"_ Où etais- tu, Crillon?_"M. de Crillon soon after came in, and was told where the enemy was.
12967	Was not this making her Regent in his absence giving her ample opportunities to have full knowledge of them?
12967	What alterations would it be necessary to make in me, now, to render it impossible to recognise me?"
12967	What did she do after the battle of Saint- Laurens, when the state was so shaken and the King had hastened to Compiègne to raise a new army?
12967	What does the public say of it?
12967	What grounds are there for such a calumny?
12967	What was the secret of her long continued hold upon the King?
12967	What would be said of a father who got rid of the charge of his children as of a burthen?
12967	What would the good prelate say if he knew that I shared my last quarter''s allowance with a charming little opera- dancer?
12967	While she was at the door, she cried out,"What are all those trunks, Madame?
12967	Who was she?
12967	Why, then, should she have undertaken to conclude the peace I have just mentioned, if she had been?
12967	Will you oblige me so far as to rise and go to Fosseuse, who is taken very ill?
12967	Will you try to put a hundred and sixty louis into my pocket?"
12967	Would a corrupted Parliament have braved the fury of the League, in order to preserve the crown for the legitimate sovereign?
12967	cried I,"has my brother no one else to send a message by?"
12967	for me''tis now too late[9] To strive''gainst Fortune and contend with Fate; Of those I slighted, can I beg relief?
12967	is Duclos an acquaintance of yours?
12967	said she,"Sire, look at----""At what?"
12967	who is he that persecutes them?