. One day, when Louis was by his mother's side,
studying a multiplication-table which Clery had made for him, at her
desire, the guard interfered, saying that he was afraid the queen was
teaching her son a cipher-language, under pretence of giving him lessons
in arithmetic. So the poor boy learned no more arithmetic. While
reading history with her son, the queen had many lectures to undergo
about giving him a republican education,--lectures which were cruel
because they were perfectly useless. The queen knew nothing about
republicanism, beyond what she had seen of late in Paris; and she had
seen nothing which could induce her to instruct her child in its favour.

Everything that came in and went out was searched; but yet it does not
appear that the real means of communication were discovered. The
macaroons were broken, the fish cut open, the walnuts split, in search
of notes; and none were found. A book which the Princess Elizabeth
wished to return to the person who had lent it to her, had all the
margins cut off, lest there should be writing on them in invisible ink.
The washing-bills, and all paper wrappers, were held to the fire, under
the same suspicion: and all the folds of the linen from the wash were
examined for hidden notes.

Once there was a fancy that the king wished to poison himself; and the
guards made poor Clery swallow some essence of soap, bought for the king
to shave with. All these things show the dread entertained by the newly
freed people of being crushed by foreign powers, and the opinion that
prevailed of the selfishness and tyrannical habits of the king and
queen. The jealousy and cruelty from which they were now suffering were
signs, perhaps, of the ignorance of the people; but they told quite as
plainly of a condition of desperate fear. If they had known the truth,
they might have discovered that their persecutors were not less wretched
than themselves. In point of ignorance of one another's views, wishes,
and intents, and of the means of securing the welfare of a nation, it
might be difficult to say which party was the least fit to govern.

Now that royalty was declared to be abolished, the family must have
pondered night and day what was to become of them, if a foreign army did
not come to release them; of which there seemed less chance now than on
that summer night when the queen had gazed at the moon, and hoped that
another month would restore her to freedom and dignity. She cou