rtments of the chateau. Scarcely had the mass begun to grow
perceptibly less, than the king, released by the grenadiers from the
recess in which he had been imprisoned, went to his sister, who threw
herself into his arms: he went out of the apartment with her by a side
door, and hastened to join the queen in her apartment. Marie Antoinette,
sustained until then by her pride against showing her tears, gave way to
the excess of her tenderness and emotion on again beholding the king.
She threw herself at his feet, and clasping his knees, sobbed bitterly
but not loudly. Madame Elizabeth and the children, locked in each
other's arms, and all embraced by the king, who wept over them, rejoiced
at finding each other as if after a shipwreck, and their mute joy was
raised to heaven with astonishment and gratitude for their safety. The
faithful national guard, the generals attached to the king, Marshal de
Mouchy, M. d'Aubier, Acloque, congratulated the king on the courage and
presence of mind he had displayed. They mutually related the perils
which they had escaped, the infamous remarks, gestures, looks, arms,
costumes, and sudden repentance of this multitude. The king at this
moment having accidently passed a mirror, saw on his head the _bonnet
rouge_, which had not been taken off; he turned very red, and threw it
at his feet, then casting himself into an arm-chair, he raised his
handkerchief to his eyes, and looking at the queen, exclaimed, "Ah,
madame! why did I take you from your country to associate you with the
ignominy of such a day?"

XXV.

It was eight o'clock in the evening. The agony of the royal family had
lasted for five hours. The national guard of the neighbouring quarters,
assembling by themselves, arrived singly, in order to lend their aid to
the constitution. There were still heard from the king's apartment
tumultuous footsteps, and the sinister cries of the columns of people,
who were slowly filing off by the courts and garden. The constitutional
deputies ran about in indignation, uttering imprecations against Petion
and the Gironde. A deputation of the Assembly went over the chateau in
order to take cognisance of the violence and disorder resulting from
this visitation of the faubourgs. The queen pointed out to them the
forced locks, the bursten hinges, the bludgeons, pike irons, panels, and
the piece of cannon loaded with small shot, placed on the threshold of
the apartments. The disorder of the attire of t