frequent and more gross.  Sentences both menacing and indecent were written on the walls where they must catch their eye:  the soldiers puffed their tobacco-smoke in the queen’s face as she passed, or placed their seats in the passages so much in her way that she could hardly avoid stumbling over their legs as she went down to the garden.  Sometimes they even assailed her with direct abuse, calling her the assassin of the people, who in their turn would assassinate her.  More than once the whole family had to submit to a personal search, and to empty their pockets, when the officers who made the search carried off whatever they chose to term suspicious, especially their knives and scissors, so that, when at work, the queen and princess were forced to bite off the threads with their teeth.  And amidst all this misery no one ever heard Marie Antoinette utter a word to lament her own fate, or to ask pity for herself.  She mourned over her husband’s fall; she pitied Elizabeth, to whom malice itself could not impute a share in the wrongs of which Danton and Vergniaud had taught the people to complain.  Most of all did she bewail the ruined prospects of her son; and more than once she brought tears into Clery’s eyes by the earnest tenderness with which she implored him to provide for the safety of the noble child after his parents should have been destroyed.

The insults increased, each being an additional omen of the future.  The most painful injuries were reserved for the queen.  Toward the end of October the dauphin was removed from her apartment to that of the king, that she might thus be deprived of the comfort of ministering to his daily wants.  But Louis himself was not spared.  One day an order came down to deprive him of his sword; on another he was stripped of his different decorations and orders of knighthood.  The system of espial, too, was carried out with increased severity.  Their linen, when it came hack from the washer-woman, and even their washing-bills, were held to the fire to see if any invisible ink had been employed to communicate with them.  Their loaves and biscuits were cut asunder lest they should contain notes.  The end was approaching.  A week or two later the king was removed to another tower, and was only permitted to see his family during a certain portion of the day.  At last it was determined to bring him to trial.  On the 11th of December he was suddenly informed that he was to be brought before the Convention; and from that day forth he was cut off from all intercourse with his family, even his wife being forbidden to see or hear from him.  The barbarous restriction afforded him one more opportunity of showing his amiable unselfishness and fortitude.  The regulation had been made by the Municipal Council, not by the Assembly; and its inhuman and unprecedented severity, coupled with a jealousy of the Council, as seeking to usurp the whole authority of the State, induced the Assembly to rescind it, and to grant permission, for Louis to have the