Prince, whose bed had been carried into her room without awaking
him." It was an indescribable torture for Madame de Tourzel to abandon
the Dauphin, whom she cherished so tenderly, and whom she had educated
since 1789. "I abstained from looking at him," she adds, "not only to
avoid weakening the courage we had so much need of, but in order to
give no room for censure, and so come back, if possible, to a place we
left with so much regret. The Queen went instantly into the chamber of
the Princess de Lamballe, from whom she parted with the utmost grief.
To Pauline and me she showed a touching sensibility, and said to me in
an undertone: 'If we are not so happy as to see you again, take good
care of Madame de Lamballe. Do the talking on all important occasions,
and spare her as much as possible from having to answer captious and
embarrassing questions.'" The two municipal officers said to Hue and
Chamilly: "Are you {344} the valets-de-chambre?" On their affirmative
response, the two faithful servants were ordered to get up and prepare
for departure. They shook hands with each other, both of them
convinced that they had reached the end of their existence. One of the
municipal officers had said that very day in their presence: "The
guillotine is permanent, and strikes with death the pretended servants
of Louis." When they descended to the Queen's antechamber, a very
small room in which the Princess de Lamballe slept, they found that
Princess and Madame de Tourzel all ready to start, and clasped in one
embrace with the Queen, the children, and Madame Elisabeth. Tender and
heart-breaking farewells, presages of separations more cruel still!

All these exiles from the prison left at the same time. Only one of
them, M. Francois Hue, was to return. He was examined at the
Hotel-de-Ville, and at the close of this interrogation an order was
signed permitting him to be taken back to the tower. "How happy I
was," he writes, "to return to the Temple! I ran to the King's
chamber. He was already up and dressed, and was reading as usual in
the little tower. The moment he saw me, his anxiety to know what had
occurred made him advance toward me; but the presence of the municipal
officers and the guards who were near him made all conversation
impossible. I indicated by a glance that, for the moment, prudence
forbade me to explain myself. Feeling the necessity of silence as well
as myself, the King resumed his {345} reading an