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 296 THE FLIGHT OF EUGENIE. A cab was waiting on the Quai du Louvre, with the Emperor's master of horse, disguised as a coachman, upon the box and a fast trotting-horse between the shafts. Soon Eugenie and her lady-in-waiting, Madame Carette, approached it, both veiled and escorted by Signor Nigra, Prince Metternich, and M. Ferdinand de Lesseps. Just as Eugenie was entering it a street boy recognized her and shouted, " There is the Empress ! " But M. de Lesseps, with ready presence of mind turned promptly upon the astonished lad and gave him a Kick, exclaiming: " Ah, you're crying ' Vive VJSmpereur are you ? That will teach you ! " These words at once directed the feeling of the bystanders against the boy, and meanwhile the Empress was driven away. As she departed, she was obliged to pass by a crowd of over a thousand persons who were making violent outcries against the Emperor and herself. Her destination was the house of her American dentist, Dr. Evans, where she passed the night. Next morning he drove her out of Paris in an open phaeton, and accom- panied her to Belgium, but not finding any safe oppor- tunity to embark thence for England, he soon returned with her to Trouville, in France. In the harbor of Trouville there was then lying a little English yacht of forty-two tons, named the " Gazelle ; " the property of Sir John Burgoyne. It was determined by Dr. Evans that if possible the Empress should be con* veyed to England in this vessel, and on September sixth he went on board of her, accompanied by his nephew, to confer with her owner. Sir John Burgoyne would not at first believe that Eugenie was indeed in Trouville, and laughingly told the two Americans that he was not to be fooled by a pair of Yankees ; then, observing their agita- tion, he became more serious and requested them to descend into the cabin and talk the matter over with Lady