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THE QUEEN'S HAIRDRESSER. On the morning of the twenty-first of June, the Count of Choiseul, who had notified the King that he could wait no longer but must pick up his detachments along the road…
MISCHANCE. Ten minutes after young Charny rode out, the King's coach rumbled in. As the duke had foreseen, the crowd had dissolved almost completely. Knowing that a detachment of soldiery was to…
STOP, KING! With Isidore riding before it, the royal conveyance flew over the road between St. Menehould and Clermont. Night was falling; the coach entered Argonne Forest crossing the highway. The Qu…
THE CAPTURE. Inexpressible prostration overpowered the fugitives, checked on the highway by a danger they could not measure. "Sire," said Isidore, the first to shake it off; "dead or l…
POOR CATHERINE. The scene was slightly changed in aspect. The little princess could not resist the weariness and she was put abed beside her brother, where both slumbered. Lady Elizabeth stood by, le…
THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE. The room was crammed with strangers and National Guards whom curiosity had drawn into it. The Queen was therefore checked in her first impulse which was to rush to the new arri…
THE FEUD. The two men, on facing each other, looked without the nobleman making the plebeian cower. More than that, it was the latter who spoke the first. "The count does me the honor to say he …
ON THE BACK TRACK. Billet's countenance was dark; thoughtfulness lowered the brows over eyes deeply investigating; he reviewed all the prisoners and over the circle he made two remarks. Charny&#…
THE DOLOROUS WAY. In the meantime the Royal Family continued on the road to Paris. They advanced slowly, for the carriage could not move but at the gait of the escort, and that was composed mostly of…
MIRABEAU'S SUCCESSOR. The royal carriage sadly travelled the Paris Road, watched by the two moody men who had forced it to alter its direction. Between Epernay and Dormans, Charny, from his stat…
