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THE ROAD TO PARIS. O N this same evening, a no less grave event set the college of Father Fortier in an uproar. Sebastian Gilbert had disappeared about six o’clock and had not been found up to midn…
THE SPIRIT MATERIALIZED. A T five next afternoon, Viscount Charny and Sebastian reached the Tuileries Palace gates. The name of his brother passed Isidore and his companion into the middle courtyard…
HUSBAND AND WIFE. C OUNT C HARNY was clad in black, mourning for his brother slain two days before. This mourning was not solely in his habit, but in the recesses of his heart, and his pallid cheek…
IN SEARCH OF THEIR SON. I T was Dr. Gilbert who was closeted with the King when the usher inquired after him on the order of Isidore and the entreaty of Sebastian. The upright heart of Louis XVI. ha…
THE MAN WITH THE MODEL. W ITH no need to be spurred in his quest, Gilbert darted through the rooms and as it would have taken too long to climb the walls, he made for the front door, which he opened…
THE PORTRAIT OF CHARLES FIRST. A WEEK has passed since the events related. Everybody was saying: The Revolution is finished; the King is delivered from Versailles, and his courtiers and evil counsel…
THE KING ATTENDS TO PRIVATE MATTERS. L OUIS the King displayed the usual irresolution in dealing with Favras’ proposition, approved by the Queen, to make a rush out of the kingdom. He reflected all …
THE KING ATTENDS TO PUBLIC MATTERS. T HOUGH the King had been only a fortnight in the Tuileries he had two places fitted out completely for him. The forge was one, the study the other. Charny walked…
A LOVING QUEEN. C HARNY left the King with his heart full of opposing feelings. The primary one, mounting to the surface over the tumultuous waves of turbulent thoughts, was deep gratitude for the b…
WITHOUT HUSBAND—WITHOUT LOVER. T HE Queen was wrong for Charny did not go to his wife’s house. He went to the Royal Post to have horses put to his own carriage. But while waiting, he wrote a farewel…
